Today Ext LLC, the authors of the popular ExtJS JavaScript Library, released an updated version of Ext.AIR. The update includes many enhancements to sound support, windowing and database. They also include some new features for Ext AIR dealing with notifications, clipboard usage and the file system interactions. Here is a brief introduction to some of the notible features.
Ext.air.MusicPlayer
…supports all of the basic operations, stop, pause, play and skipTo along with supporting events. The MusicPlayer enables the developer to add music and podcasts to their AIR-enabled Ext application very quickly.
Ext.air.Notify
…allows you to notify users that something important has occurred even when your application may not be visible. By displaying these notifications at the operating system level it is sure to get the users attention without being lost within a browser tab.
Window and App API’s
Ext.air.NativeWindow now exposes methods to re-order windows, set a window as always on top, and enable full-screen mode. A new singleton, Ext.air.App will allow you to set your application to start on login and get the currently active window.
Ext.air.Clipboard
…allows you to interact with the system’s clipboard. Developers can determine if a particular format has data, set the data and get the data.
Ext.air.VideoPanel
…enables you to embed flash based video while maintaining the same functionality as an Ext.Panel…You can even watch the video fullscreen in high definition.
It’s still early days for Ext and AIR, but this is a great step to enabling developers to see the full potential of Adobe AIR and JavaScript.
With the above release, ExtJS have bundled in a sample application which uses the new Sound features (mainly). They are calling it ExtPlayer. It runs surprisingly well for a first example, however I could not get the timeline drag to move without the whole player moving too… but it is a great concept player.
ExtPlayer in action.
You can find out more about Ext.Air here
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