As the AIR 2.0 is in beta now I have to edit this post, and add a link to the capabilities of the new version as it solves lot of limitations of the previous versions. Check it here.

I would do it much earlier because lot of projects had to be done using other programming languages. But it’s not me who lost money due to the limitations of AIR. They have to know the reasons why they make those limitations, and degraded AIR to be a widget creation tool.

The original post (hope it’s meaningless now):

I don’t know what Adobe thinks, but ignoring user (their customers) is a really dangerous thing to do.

I have a problem with launching external application from an AIR apllication. I don’t want it because I have nothing else to do, I need to do it. ( Actually the client needs to do it, so I have to be able to do it.)  I think lots of people had/have this problem.

I don’t know what’s the point that even some music player software has bigger privileges than I could dream off with AIR? If we develop dekstop application, we have to have the same possibilities as other applications have. The installer could warn the users that this application is capable of doing that, and that’s it.

It’s not so funny to make some installers and try to bypass this stupid restriction! Adobe even doesn’t allow to distribute just the files and make what how I want things to work, I have to use their installer. (As I know useing shu-player is not as much legal, but I might end up useing it anyway)

So I could ask: How to solve it? I don’t know what are the plans in Adobe with AIR, but I cannot see bright future for it if Adobe will ignore what people need. If there will be other choice I will surely go that way. I don’t like to be in this kind of situation (be a hostage), when I am fully in a hands of some company (who doesnt really care).

Uff.

Ps: If you agree with me, don’t just pray for some change. Let them know what you want!

When I wanted to take control over the shield that makes a window appear modal, I found out, that it seams to be not really implemented. I’ve found the functionality in the mx.managers.PopUpManagerImpl class in the Flex framework.

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Before this post check: When simple overriding is not possible!

In this post I will show why would you have to change the flex classes code.
I had hard times with this problem. When both scrollers appear in a container in the same time, a white rectangle is created in the corner. First I thought it’s something with the scroller (that’t why I didn’t find the solution). But I’ve found it! And I have to ask a question: Why is that the the rectangle have to be white, and it is hardcoded there?

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Before this post check: When simple overriding is not possible!
Here I will show how to override private functions for the Flex framework classes. If you want the DataGrid to have fix column ratios, that will never change try this.
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Sometimes I wanted to override a function of Flex component, but it was private. So what to do? If I need just a little change, or I just found a little bug there, and don’t want to make a component from scratch! Let’s go little more extreme.
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Sometimes you just want to embed a symbol from an SWF file what you made with the Flash IDE, but you can have problems. The symbol will not have information about the linked class. You will lose all the functionality that was there, the symbols child objects lose everything too. So how to embed the symbol and maintain the connection with the linked classes?

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I think lot of Flex users saw this error coming up so lets see what we have here.

The most annoying thing is that it seems that there are more actual solutions (so the problem can be very frustrating).

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