Kevin Hoyt

Every new update to Adobe AIR means one thing for me - a lot of additional work. When I first started putting together samples for the AIR Pocket Guide, it never occurred to me that I’d have to revisit them time and again. What started as a couple dozen examples has also now grown to be over forty (40) AIR samples, to include a number of full applications. That being said, I’m happy to announce that the samples update for AIR Beta 3 is complete, and are available for download.
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AIR Beta 3 is an exciting release that takes us one step closer to AIR 1.0. Unlike the myriad of changes introduced in the move from AIR Beta 1 to AIR Beta 2, the changes in AIR Beta 3 are far more subtle. While this stability indicates the growing maturity of the product, AIR Beta 3 is an update and will require some changes to your applications. You can read the release notes of course, but in the progress of updating my forty-plus AIR applications, here are the common changes that I encountered.
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The web’s insatiable appetite for upload functionality never ceases to amaze me. What do I mean? My little blog has around 100 posts of technology goodness. In the top five most trafficked posts are two articles I’ve done on uploading files. The more popular of the two goes all the way back to the days of Macromedia Central, and I still get random emails about it on a weekly basis. With that in mind, I decided it was time to revisit some of that old code with the latest tools and libraries.
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I’ve seen a couple blog posts recently from Emanuele Feronato about shuffling an image using the BitmapData class in Flash. It’s a great overview and I highly recommend checking it out if you’re into image manipulation with Flash. I remember the days when such effects were only possible through movie clip duplication and heavy use of masking. What I thought was interesting however, is that he uses an image linked in from the library.
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