CodeStore.net comments on "My Very First Adobe AIR Application"

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:50:57 -0500

The device I was talking about above and for which I'd coded the AIR app is the "HA7.Net"

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:50:04 -0500

Some further reading you might be interested in:

http://www.embeddeddatasystems.com/

http://www.homechip.com/catalog/

http://www.klein.com/thermd/

It's enough to bring out the nerd in us all.

Jake

Reply from Dragon Cotterill

Dragon Cotterill — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:34:08 -0500

Off at a slight tangent here... but what are those temperature devices? Reason being, at some point this year, Wifey and I will be moving to the "sticks" (although still in ADSL range). Remote temperature information of the greenhouses and pools would be very useful to me. Can you get a brand name/code of them so I can go get a bit more info on them? Thanks.

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:46:43 -0500

This was all done in Flex3 and I had no trouble at all. Well, there were a few oddities where the air package exported ok but when installing it said it was "damaged". After exporting again it worked fine. Guess it's always worth testing the AIR file before releasing it.

Apart from that I found it very easy to create an installable desktop app in no time at all using my existing web-based Flex knowledge.

Jake

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:31:44 -0500

How did you like the process of creating and running the application? I have a strong memory of running into trouble just getting it to create something that would execute or "open with" the Air framework to run properly. Then again that was with the flex3 demo, not flex4. One hopes for incremental improvements in certain areas.