I need to pin AIR application over other windows, I mean, regardless if AIR application is in focus or not, it must not hide, it always must be shown, whatever other program I activate or work with, AIR application must be over every window always. Is it possible? If it is, please show me the function (example code will be better :) ) which does it, incase if AS3 has one.
You're looking for the alwaysInFront property of the NativeWindow class:
The alwaysInFront property specifies whether this window will always be in front of other windows (including those of other applications).
The following example forces a window to be displayed in front of all
other windows (that are not similarly forced to the front):
windowObj.alwaysInFront = true;
Another example with a reference to a display object on the window stage:
displayObject.stage.nativeWindow.alwaysInFront=true;
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In my Adobe Air application, I have a room and my player that can walk around it. I set it so it automatically opens in fullscreen, however, when you exit fullscreen it doesn't scale anything, so it just shows you the edge of the room, where you can't see the player or anything else. How do I make it so that when you exit fullscreen, everything will scale down to the windowed version, and back again? This is in Adobe Flash Builder 4.7.
I tried scaling everything down by putting an If statement in an update function, that constantly checks if the window is full screened or not, and if not, it'll scale the x and y down by .5, and if full screened again, it'll scale it back up by 1. The player however changes position, and if I try to make the X equal it it just does it again if I move the player, so it doesn't work. I've also tried verticleCenter and horizontalCenter on both the player and room, it also doesn't work.
What I'm wondering is if there is a stage.autoScale line that can solve everything, or if I have to do it manually another way like I've tried.
So you got 2 options here.
Check for fullscreen event and then in the listener function scale everything according to your logics. This will give you more control over the scaling and visual display of your components and graphics. You can find a working example for fullscreen event handling at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS2E9C7F3B-6A7C-4c5d-8ADD-5B23446FBEEB.html
Allow FP to scale the stage according to the window size. This can be achieved by setting up stage.scale mode. There are couple options which you can find at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/StageScaleMode.html. Use the one best suit for your application.
I would prefer using first method. Hope that make sense.
I've created an AIR application and it seems to be working fine but when I drag the title bar to move the native window it shakes violently and have seizures while it's dragging about.
FYI It does eventually end up where I want it to be when I stop moving the mouse.
I'm using Flex 4.6 and AIR 3.6 on Mac OSX 10.10.5. It's a s:WindowedApplication I'm also using the DragManager on a list in part of the application if that matters but it is not enabled until the user clicks into the list and moves more than a certain number of pixels.
Here is my descriptor file minus name and version info:
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.6">
<initialWindow>
<autoOrients>false</autoOrients>
<fullScreen>false</fullScreen>
<visible>false</visible>
</initialWindow>
</application>
On initialize I run this:
protected function initializeHandler(event:FlexEvent):void {
width = Capabilities.screenResolutionX * .96;
height = Capabilities.screenResolutionY * .9;
nativeWindow.x = (Screen.mainScreen.bounds.width - width)/2;
nativeWindow.y = (Screen.mainScreen.bounds.height - height)/2;
}
UPDATE:
I removed the main view component so it is an empty application and it drags around smoothly.
UPDATE 2:
I added the main view back in and dragged around step by step along the way. It appears to start happening when I've loaded a second Application (called a sub application) into the main application. I'm not sure though.
This happens in numerous number of my applications. It is probably because I have a component inside my application file set to size to 100% of the application. But I have not verified this on all my apps.
The solution is to resize the AIR app. After I resize it it works fine. I can drag it around and it works as expected. I think this is an AIR bug.
I have few questions here, regarding creating app in Adobe Air using Starling and feathers.
I created yet a very simple app, which has Feathers list controller with static data provided to its dataProvider. According to the code it should work fine, but there are three major issues I am facing.
1: Touch/Click Positions
I am using:
list.addEventListener( Event.CHANGE, list_changeHandler );
Now the problem is, clicking coordinates are not correct. Clicking on 3rd Item triggered 4th item, to trigger 3rd, 2nd item needs to be clicked it's half way through etc.
2: Nothing, without Theme
I am using a custom theme, came along with a tutorial. If I don't use the theme, I am unable to see anything on the screen, somehow.
3: Resolution (Device Simulator) Problem
Though buggy, but it works with Theme, but my app doesn't fit with the resolution for each device simulator. Either its, iPad or iPhone 4 or any android simulator.
Also, can anyone please also explains, what is significance and use of Context3D render mode in starling class.
Any help is appreciated:
Thanks in advance
Waqar Iqbal
Starling is a Stage3D framework that displays content directly on graphic card using Context3D. Everything displayed by Starling is always under the regular display list. Feather is a component framework based on Starling.
Stage3D cannot handle any mouse operations so Starling and Feather simulate all their mouse event (those mouse event never really happen anywhere, they are created by calculation of mouse position on the stage)
not sure, never used Feather
Starling does not handle screen density and dpi calculation, if you want your app to fit any screen you'll have to handle it yourself.
I think you should see the example carefully. if u want to use any feathers component either you have to use feathers theme or custom theme.
if you use feather theme you need to provide theme path and before using any component you need to initialize that theme.Then use component any where.without theme you will not see any thing.
1: Touch/Click Positions
please provide minTouchHeight in class theme of DefaultListItemRenderer like:-
renderer.minWidth = this.gridSize;
renderer.minHeight = this.gridSize;
renderer.minTouchWidth = this.gridSize;
renderer.minTouchHeight = this.gridSize;
2: Nothing, without Theme,
3: Resolution (Device Simulator) Problem
Follow the example given in feather library
feathers-2.1.1\themes\MetalWorksMobileTheme\source\feathers\themes
I know about nativeWindow.alwaysInFront property and I do use it, however if another application creates a window which is set to be topmost as well, it does overlay my AIR app. For example, Teamviewer message windows.
Is there a way to achieve absolute topmost-ness ?
No.
But setting alwaysInFront to false, and to true again, will put your app on top again.
The flash player has a little window that can be opened (similar to flash->settings) telling the user to update the player if the movie loaded is for a more recent version. How can you instruct the player to do this? ITV have managed it with their catchup-tv player.
Context: I am allowing users to copy flash into their PowerPoint presentations and would like to tell them to update their flash player if necessary. I am not embedding a web page in the power point so no JS can be run for checking etc (because I know this is not necessary).
Thanks in advance
For getting the current version of flash:
var version:String = Capabilities.version;
I don't know what ITV has done, but I don't know of any way of forcing the player to show that box, although it may do it automatically.
EDIT:
I just found a complete blog post that answers this.
There is no way to force the window to open itself. It's a user defined setting:
Have a look at the Security class. I have used it in some Flash to prompt users to increase storage limits. The panels that you can show are found in SecurityPanel. However, this may not be the way to prompt for outdated Flash version. (If you are looking to customize these panels, that is off limits.)
You can actually test the browser/Flash version in Javascript, so there really is no point in loading Flash to tell the user to upgrade Flash.