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Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo)

Apollo FileSystem Tutorial Part 1 – File and FileStream

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Mims H Wright

One of the most important new features in Apollo is the ability to access the local file system directly. This provides developers with the ability to read and edit text or html files, save preferences locally, store application states as … Continue reading →

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Mims speaks @ NY Flex Users Group 2007/5/24

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Mims H Wright

Hi. For you readers in NYC, I’ll be speaking at the next NY Flex Users Group on the Apollo Filesystem API. I hope you can make it! If not, watch this space for notes and code samples. Cheers! NYFLEX.org

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Apollo Mail Client Version 0.3

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

I’m pleased to announce the first alpha release of ApolloMail, a cross-platform POP3 / SMTP e-mail client written in Apollo (obviously) in under 500K (and most of that is my gratuitous about banner). It’s just the beginnings, really, but here … Continue reading →

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Logging to a File in Apollo

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

Since Apollo apps will be run as standalone desktop applications, logging to trace output or a LocalConnection won’t really be useful once the app is installed on the end-user’s machine. It would be great to log (a responsible amount) (if … Continue reading →

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Apollo Native Windows Part 3

Posted on April 8, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

As promised I’m back with more goodies! This time I’ve extended the simple window manager to support document windows as well as application windows. I also included a class that binds to your MenuBar in an empty menu and keeps … Continue reading →

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