Category Archives: Air

“Open in Excel”: Another AIR 2 Mini Sample

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 24, 2009
In Adobe AIR 1.0 and 1.5, there were different options to “open” the data of a Flex DataGrid in Excel. For example, you could leverage the AIR native drag-and-drop support to drag rows from the DataGrid to an open Excel spreadsheet. You could also drag rows to the desktop (or anywhere on the file system) [...]
Also posted in Flex | 14 Comments

“Voice Notes”: Record Voice Notes and Persist them in SQLite with AIR 2

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 18, 2009
As you probably already know, the Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 betas are now available on Adobe Labs. I’ve been playing with the Microphone API in AIR 2 while working on the booth here at Devoxx, and built this small sample application that allows you to record voice notes and store them in the [...]
Also posted in Flex | 6 Comments

AIR-based Mortgage Calculator Desktop Widget (with ILOG Gauges)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: July 28, 2009
Here is a simple example of using a chromeless, transparent window in AIR to build a widget-type application. I know: yet another mortgage application… but to make things more interesting, I used the cool ILOG Elixir gauges to display and enter the principal, monthly payment, rate, and term. No rocket science here, but a nice [...]
Also posted in Flex, ilog | 10 Comments

New Version of Salesbuilder with Ribbit Integration: Source Code Available

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: April 6, 2009
Many people have asked for the source code of the new version of Salesbuilder that includes Ribbit (phone service) integration, an offline calendar (using the ILog component), and the KapIT visualizer component. You can now download the source code here. As a reminder, you can watch a screencast showing the key features of the application here (go [...]
Also posted in Flex, KapIT, Ribbit, ilog | 16 Comments

Externalizing Service Configuration using BlazeDS and LCDS

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 23, 2009
A typical source of confusion when developers start working with RemoteObject or other BlazeDS/LCDS related classes is where and most importantly *when* the configuration of your services is being read. The question often arises after an application stops working when you move it to another server. This is one of the most frequently asked questions related [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS | 26 Comments

Sample application using the Swiz Framework and BlazeDS

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 13, 2009
There have been a lot of discussions around Flex Frameworks lately. Tony Hillerson has an interesting series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 A relative newcomer on the list is Swiz, the work of Chris Scott. I figured I would give it a try, and create a Swiz version of the inSync application that I [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, Java, LCDS | 11 Comments

New Spring/BlazeDS Integration Test Drive

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: January 27, 2009
UPDATE: I posted a new version of the Test Drive for the M2 build of the Spring / BlazeDS integration project here. Please use that version. SpringSource recently announced the Spring / BlazeDS Integration project. You can read more about the project and download the bits at http://www.springsource.org/spring-flex. To help developers get started with the integration, I [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, Spring | 50 Comments

Using the SQLite Database Access API in AIR… Part 2: Using the DAO Pattern

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 25, 2008
The first version of our contact management application introduced us to the database access API in AIR. However, the lack of “application partitioning” or “separation of concerns” in that first implementation represented a poor architecture with no potential for reusability. In this second version, we use the Data Access Object pattern to improve the overall architecture [...]
Also posted in Flex, MAX, SQLite | 7 Comments

Using the SQLite Database Access API in AIR… Part 1

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 25, 2008
In my MAX session called “Liberate your Data with AIR”, I presented different approaches to access local data using the SQLite database access API in AIR. The list of approaches included: “SQL in View” Data Access Object (DAO) pattern Using an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) framework I demonstrated a version of inSync (a simple contact management application) built with each [...]
Also posted in Flex, MAX, SQLite | 7 Comments

My MAX LCDS/BlazeDS Sessions Materials Available

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 20, 2008
Many of you have asked me for the materials I used in my LCDS/BlazeDS hands-on sessions at MAX. Here are the links: Lab instructions PDF (Powering Flex Applications with BlazeDS and Data Services) Lab files (including final solutions) If you didn’t have a chance to attend, you should be able to use this as a BlazeDS/LCDS tutorial [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS, MAX | 11 Comments