Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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AIR capability is built right into the Flash CS4 integrated development environment, which means you can start writing desktop applications right away.This book not only covers the essentials of using Flash with AIR (and AIR with Flash), but also shows you how to extend application functionality in new ways.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-12-24
Mått191 x 229 x 37 mm
Vikt1 196 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor720
FörlagAPress
ISBN9781430215882

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Marco Casario is one of the most dynamic developers and consultants in the Adobe world. He has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child, and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italia. Since that year, he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog, RIAvolutionize the Web (Casario.blogs.com), which is receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day. In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste (Comtaste.com), a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in rich Internet applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices; MobyMobile (MobyMobile.com) and YouThru (YouThru.com) are representative of their work. Marco is the is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite) and of AugItaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, for which he carries out the role of channel manager for the section dedicated to Flex (AugItaly.com/FlexGala.) Marco is busy working on the development (in Flex) of a very ambitious project concerning bank counters at European level, and in various consulting and Flex and Flash Media Server training activities for the realisation of rich Internet applications on behalf of buyers of the calibre of Capgemini, IBM partners, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland, Ltd.

Introducing Adobe AIR.- Introducing Flash CS4.- Building Your First AIR Application.- Setting AIR Application Properties.- Working with the Window APIS and the Screen Class.- Creating Menus for Flash Applications.- Accessing the File System.- Working with the Operating System.- Adding Rich Media: PDF, Video, and Audio Files.- Working with HTML Content.- Monitoring Network Connectivity.- SQLite Programming in Flash CS4.- Packaging, Distributing, and Installing AIR Applications.