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Flex 4 Cookbook
Real-world recipes for developing Rich Internet Applications
by Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson, Garth Braith..., Marco Casario, and Rich Tretola
Flex 4 Cookbook by Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson, Garth Braithwaite, Marco Casario, and Rich Tretola Copyright © 2010 O’Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribooksonline.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800-998-9938 or corporate@oreilly.com. Editor: Mary E. Treseler Indexer: Ellen Troutman Zaig Development Editor: Linda LaFlamme Cover Designer: Karen Montgomery Production Editor: Kristen Borg Interior Designer: David Futato Copyeditor: Rachel Head Illustrator: Robert Romano Proofreader: Kiel Van Horn Printing History: May 2010: First Edition. Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O’Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Flex 4 Cookbook, the image of a Kuhl’s flying gecko, and related trade dress are trademarks of O’Reilly
(2010)
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers
by David Tucker, Marco Casario, Rich Tretola, and Koen De Wegg...
CHAPTER 1 AIR Basics AIR is a runtime that can be installed on computers that are running Windows, Mac, or Linux (at the time of writing, Linux support is currently in beta). After installing AIR (free from http://get.adobe.com/air/), users can install and run AIR applications, which are packaged as files with the extension .air. What this means to you, the developer, is that you can deploy a single .air file to any operating system that has AIR installed without making any changes—one of the greatest benefits of AIR. You can truly write code once and then deploy your application across multiple oper- ating systems. AIR provides multiple development pathways for you to create AIR applications. The free Adobe AIR software development kit (SDK) contains command-line tools and code templates for creating an AIR application and is downloadable from http://www.adobe .com/products/air/. With the AIR SDK, you can create Hypertext Markup Language
(2009)
