Adobe AIR powered API viewer
Filed under: Adobe, Development, Safari
By Sebastian Werner @ July 31, 2007 7:40 pm
Adobe AIR is a new system to allow typical web applications to better integrate in the desktop. This includes access to file system resources, a local SQL database, and a controlable chrome for the "browser" window and some other goodies. The whole thing uses Webkit to render HTML pages. This is a great choice -- for qooxdoo based applications Webkit currently easily outperforms the other engines.
I have integrated AIR into the build system (trunk only). For a small demonstration I have created an AIR based API-Viewer of the current trunk. This can be used as an offline application. Including all API data the download is about 700 KB which is really small. (I had to zip the download again because of security limitations features of wordpress.)
In the current trunk each skeleton based application can be converted to an AIR application easily. Just execute "make air" in the root folder of your application. Unfortunately this feature required changes in a lot of files. This will be a trunk-only feature for now and will not be backported to legacy_0_7_x.
Comment by Robert Christensen
Wow! Very nicely done! I enjoyed the opportunity to meet the qooxdoo team at Ajax World. This application is immediately valuable as I can review your API’s to better understand how to use your libraries. Keep up the great work! qooxdoo rocks!
- Rob
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Product Manager, Adobe AIR
http://www.adobe.com/go/air/
July 31, 2007 9:30 pm
Comment by Chris Seahorn
Really impressive stuff Sebastian!
I had your sdk and Cygwin installed, configured and ripping out it’s first “Hello World” in a matter of minutes thanks to your easy to follow guides. Your AIR API viewer is also going to cause many late nights here (and great fun!) learning about and playing with qooxdoo.
Chris
August 1, 2007 12:58 am
Comment by Helder Magalhães
Great work, Sebastian! I’m eager to make few experiments with the trunk version.
In the meantime, I discovered a weird window resize behavior bug, and initially thought it had to do with AIR and/or WebKit. Probably the bug was already reported and/or fixed, but I’d like to take the change to alert other possible “beta testers”, because (for example) I was already preparing myself to make an AIR bug report, as I didn’t notice the behavior in Safari (WebKit), but apparently it’s a qooxdoo issue…
The application only resizes every two times, that is, in even events. Initially it is already not adjusted to the canvas size, and so it becomes every two window resize events.
Again, congratulations for (generally) qooxdoo and (specifically) this!
Regards,
Helder Magalhães
September 4, 2007 11:43 am
Comment by Niks
HI Everybody there.
I have some issue with qooxdoo integration with Adobe Flex.
I have created a Adobe Flex Drawing Application and Now i Just wanted to integrate flex application with my qooxdoo application. But however i m not getting it. I have successfully integrated this same scenario with pure javascript sample application. but however i am not able to integrate with qooxdoo.
Is anybody have idea?
Plese send me fire question if you not getting scenario.
Thanks in advance
Niks
September 21, 2007 12:21 pm
Comment by Rob Christensen
Hi Niks,
I’m not sure I understand what’s not working. The best place to post questions related to AIR is here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=641&entercat=y
If you can be a bit more specific on what’s not working, that would be helpful. This sounds like an interesting scenario. It may in fact be a bug in which case we’ll want to try and reproduce it.
Thanks,
- Rob
September 21, 2007 8:22 pm
Comment by Niks
Thanks for Your kind Reply Rob.
I know that this may be not right place to put a question but Actually I first tried at Adobe side and did some R&D over there for this problem. then i came to decision that it may be the problem from qooxdoo side, as far as my view goes.
So i just Posted here.
Rob,
Can you provide me your e-mail id ? so i can forward you a well define scenario with sample code.
Thanks for Co-operation
Niks
September 24, 2007 1:16 pm
Comment by Niks
Hi Rob.
My e-mail id is
nikunj_r_patel@yahoo.com
please mail me so i can send you sample code.
Thanks
Niks
September 24, 2007 1:21 pm
Comment by Tobias
hi,
i only get an error message, that the api-viewer needs a version of AIR that is no longer Supported.
what can i do? i just wanted to run it without developing it
Tobias
November 7, 2007 10:26 am
Comment by Sebastian Werner
Sorry for this Tobias. Adobe has updated their AIR implementation and we need to follow in our wrapper to be compatible. Can you please open a bug report for this, so it does not get lost. Thanks.
November 11, 2007 11:37 am
Comment by Tobias
ok, done.
thanks
Tobias
November 12, 2007 1:53 pm