I created the glossy icon for my first public AIR application… my friends told me that its looks glossy and excellent …
I taught of displaying the icon and source here..
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The application reads SWF files details that dropped on the drop area and displays result there in result view. It can also read bunch of SWF files together.
Benefits:

Reads the SWF file details that we cannot achieve using the Action Script API’s.
Save the details on local disk.

Project details:
I finished this project using Adobe Flash CS3 + Adobe AIR. I have seen Senocular SWFReader Class, and I thought of doing desktop application to read SWF files using the class file. I started on oct 14 and I also seen online version of …

In this section we are going to cover

DOM3 event model
Display list API

I recommend going through the introduction to AS3 part 1 before reading part2.
DOM3 event model:
Document Object Model Level 3 event model (DOM3) provides a standard way of generating and handling event messages so that objects within applications can interact and communicate, maintaining their state and responding to change. Patterned after the World Wide Web Consortium DOM Level 3 Events Specification, this model provides a clearer and more efficient mechanism than the event systems available in previous versions of ActionScript.
The …

ActionScript is the programming language for Flash Player run-time environment.
ActionScript3.0 is the newer version of ActionScript. AS3 runs in Virtual Machine AVM2 which provides significant improvement in the performance.
With improved API AS3 is based on ECMAScript.
An event model based on the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification.
Some of the Important Core language features includes
· ECMAScript for XML (E4X)
· Regular Expressions
· Namespaces
· New Primitive types
E4X for XML:
The ECMAScript for XML specification defines a set of classes and functionality for working with XML data. These classes …

As the Flex is going high there are more developers at the list. Adobe is giving feed for the Flex tutorials for free. We can view the tutorials using Adobe Media Player
If you dont have Adobe Media Player download it first, Its an Air App.After downloading and installing player. Click “My Favorites” menu at the top.
Click “Add RSS Feed” at the bottom.
Paste http://sessions.adobe.com/FlexInAWeek/feed.xml
Click Ok
Its time to learn.

The newline character in Flash is “/n” but its not working when we write to text file using FileStream in Adobe Air.
MyFileStream.writeUTFBytes(”Some text here”+”\r\n”);MyFileStream.writeUTFBytes(”I am in new line”);
This works

Accessibility:
Now Adobe flash is one of the widest technologies used on web to create RIAs (Rich Internet Applications).
Accessibility involves two key issues: first, how users with disabilities access electronic information, and second, how web content designers and developers enable web pages to function with assistive devices used by individuals with disabilities.
More about Accessibility
Accessibility policies vary from country to country, but most countries, including the European Union, have adopted standards based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Accessibility standards help designers and developers of …

The function calculates values from Bytes to KB or MB.
Here we are first checking the value of bytes and if its less that zero or not a number returns null.
Otherwise we are calculating,
1024 Bytes = 1 KB.
1024 KB = 1 MB
/**
* Calculates the File size
*
* @param bytes Loaded bytes or file size in bytes
* @return converted bytes to String.
*/
function fileSize( bytes : Number ) : String
{
if(bytes<0 number =” Number(bytes/1024);” string =” Math.round(fileSize)”>0?(fileSize>1024?(fileSize/1024).toFixed(2)+”MB”:((fileSize.toFixed(2))+”KB”)):(fileSize*1024)+”Bytes” ;
return FileSize_str;
}
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Adobe is about to release Flash CS4 in the mid of November 2008 except Japanese version, That going to be release on December 2008.
We can see these note on Abobe Site.

This is really interesting to see the new releases from Adobe.
we can also see the download trial links from Adobe downloads page, but its pointing to the reminder.

Expecting the release as all Adobe Users

Some top features of Flash Player 10 @ Adobe Website with source files.
Cover Flow with Source..
3D effects NewCreate more intuitive, engaging interfaces using built-in support for 3D effects. Get started quickly without being a 3D master by designing in 2D and easily transforming and animating in 3D. Fast, extremely lightweight, and simple-to-use APIs, along with 3D tools in Adobe® Flash® CS4 Professional software, make motion that was previously accessible only to expert users via ActionScript® language or custom third-party libraries available to everyone.
Custom filters and effects NewCreate high-performance, …