AIR Tutorials and News

Snippet Manager is a desktop application built using Flex (MXML and ActionScript) for Adobe AIR.

Snippet Manager will allow you to create an unlimited number of code snippets and assign them to a category (which are also unlimited).
Version 1.0 supports the creation of Categories and Snippets, the Edit of Snippets and Categories, and the Deletion of Snippets and Categories.
Snippets are stored in the users directory (in plain text flat files), each computer user can maintain their own snippets library.

Below are the installation files. This will allow you to install the code snippet manager application on your operating system.

AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) enables programmers to develop desktop application using web development skills (HTML with JavaScript or Adobe Flex).
Applications created to work with AIR can usually run in Windows, Apple Macs and Linux with little or no modifications.

This website will provide some additional information to help you understand what AIR is, how it can be used, and how to build desktop applications with the AIR SDK (Software Development Kit).

Our first Tutorial

• installation of the AIR SDK (also covers configuration)

We are almost ready to publish our next tutorials. What to expect this week:

• Installation of the Flex SDK
• Creating a Tree component using external XML in Flex for AIR. (the title of this may change)

The first video below shows how simple it is to install the AIR SDK.

• Step one: In google, search for ‘adobe air sdk’
• Step two: Select the second result www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/sdk/
• Step three: Download the files for you Operating System (currently Mac OSX or Windows)
• Step four: Extract all the files from the downloaded zip file to a folder on your local machine (for example: c:\air\)

Note: The download file will be zipped-up, you can use something like winzip or winrar to extract the files.

This second part shows how to configure the program.

• Step one: Right Click on ‘My Computer’
• Step two: Select ‘Properties’
• Step three: Select the ‘Advanced’ tab
• Step four: Select the ‘Environment Variables’ button
• Step five: Select ‘New’ under the ‘System Variables’ section
• Step six: Enter ‘adl’ in the ‘variable name’ field and ‘c:\air\bin\adl.exe’ in the ‘variable value’ field.
• Step seven: Click OK
• Step eight: Enter ‘adt’ in the ‘variable name’ field and ‘c:\air\bin\adt.bat’ in the ‘variable value’ field.
• Step nine: Click OK
• Step ten: Restart your computer so the changes will take effect

The above steps will now allow you to call the commands ‘adl’ and ‘adt’ from any directory.
This make things easier when developing applications as you do not have to specify the full path
each time you call ‘adl’ or ‘adt’.

Note: Installing the AIR SDK will allow you to run and compile applications, however it will not register the standard AIR runtime on your system which is required to install AIR applications. Visit the Adobe website and get the AIR runtime.