Archive for October, 2007

Custom Installer For Adobe AIR Applications

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

I need a custom installer for an AIR application i’m currently developing. That’s because my AIR app needs additional functionality that the AIR runtime doesn’t provide (specifically: detecting USB storage devices, act as a TCP socket server, talk to Last.fm scrobbler plugins). For that purpose i wrote a local RPC socket server gateway in C [...]

Adoro Problemas

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

FZip Alpha Release: Create And Modify ZIP Archives

Monday, October 8th, 2007

FZip has been around for some time now, and people seem to like it. However one feature has been asked for repeatedly: In addition to reading ZIP archive, people want to be able to create new (and modify existing) archives.
So i finally sat down this weekend and added that.
The code is not tested very well [...]

FZip, AIRRemoteUpdater Upgraded for AIR Beta 2

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Just a quick FYI: FZip and AIRRemoteUpdater upgrades for AIR Beta 2 are now available for download.
FZip now uses ByteArray.uncompress(CompressionAlgorithm.DEFLATE) instead of the now deprecated ByteArray.inflate(). I also tweaked FZip to throw an exception when a parsing error occurs and no event listener is registered for FZipErrorEvent.PARSE_ERROR events.
AIRRemoteUpdater now gets the local descriptor XML via [...]