Is there away to copy a screenshot directly into an Adobe Air (2) application?
Kinda like this: User presses the "print screen" button and the screenshot shows up in the app.
Also I'ld like to know if pasting via keyboard or right-click work for that?
I'm new too AIR.
Best, John
Yes, it can be done.
But no, not directly from Air, unless you wish to capture parts of your own AIR UI (which should be no problem as these are within the scope of the AIR Application)
To capture the whole screen you would need to use an ANE (Adobe Native Extension) which can be written
both for iOS and Android devices and used from within AIR via an API.
Introduction to ANE Development:http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/extensions/air_extensions.pdf
The following post discusses on the way by which an Air ANE can capture a screenshot (which is technical and relevant for developing such an ANE for Android)
How Native Extension take screenshot on Android device?
Other then this you might try a workaround, that is, instructing the user to capture using his own device's capture combination, then simply ask them to select the file from the Gallery, if indeed this is your intention...?
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I want to create a functionality in react-native app such that on pressing a particular button, it should get me to the "open with" window, and that window should fetch me the list of all the installed applications in the phone which can run audio files. How can i get such list?
On a Android system, that "Open with" screen pops up when:
The user have more than one application that can play that specific audio format(Because it's not every app that can run every audio format).
The user did not set-up a default app to open the audio format.
So, You should just use a library like rn-fetch-blob to open the file for you, like as follow:
RNFetchBlob.android.actionViewIntent(fileLocation, mimeType)
And android will take care of picking the right app for you.
In case this answer does not satisfy you, you can get a list of apps using react-native-android-installed-apps-unblocking, but there's no information about wich ones can run an audio file, and maybe IOS will have some restrictions about what can be done, so your best option is to let the system do that for you!
Is there any way to change the camera focus in Adobe Air 14 without a Native Extension?
I am trying to find a way to control the Camera's manual focus.
You need to find your camera DLL(if you developing this for Windows).
I know that Nikon D90 have own *.DLL's that provide full range of own API. So you need to develop ANE that will send calls to that dll and receive feedback.
Also same way you can do live preview (I done this 2 years ago).
With windows 8, is it possible to create an application that is always visible? For instance, in previous versions of windows, there is the task bar with quick launch icons. Can I create something similar to the quick launch icons that are always on the screen?
If you are referring to a Windows 8 Store app then the answer is no. You can have a live tile and toast notifications that provides updates to the user which may cause the user to launch your application.
A good article to read to understand how your Windows Store apps will run on Windows 8 go here to learn about Application lifecycle (Windows Store apps). This will explain the App execution state.
It is not possible in the RT version, but the same is possible in the desktop version. If you have a desktop app, you can pin it to the taskbar. But any Window store app cannot be pinned to the taskbar. What you can do instead is move the app to the beginning of your Home screen, so anytime you click the Windows button your app will be visible right in front.
Do you mean always visible in the Star Menu screen? If so, you can add tile updating functionality to your application. As long as the user has the application pinned to the Start Menu, he would see the updates. Check the link below for an introductory tutorial.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/04/16/creating-a-great-tile-experience-part-1.aspx
"Quick Launch" has a very specific meaning, which you may or may not have been referring to in your question.
Below is the Quick Launch bar in Windows 8 - essentially a toolbar pointing to a location in your %AppData% directory. Prior to Windows 7 it was available by default, but the ability to now pin items directly to the taskbar rather supersedes it. Here's how you can restore Quick Launch if you really want to :)
It's, of course, available only in the Desktop mode and not on the Modern UI, where pinning a tile is the best you can hope for, and it's all up to the user to pin it AND to determine where it shows up on their Start Screen.
Another option worth mentioning (although more like system tray than quick launch) is lock screen presence. If the user chooses so and your app supports that, he can add it to his lock screen:
either as a a badge (up to 7 apps)
or as a tile notification (single app only)
This is not a way for the user to quickly start your app (other answers have already covered these options) but a way to stay visible and keep your user informed.
I am developing an iOS app that allows users to download documents off a server. I have gotten this to work fine and they can even view the document. What I want, though, is for the document to have an 'Open In' action so, when a button is pressed, the user is able to select another application that allows you to look at PDF documents -- for example, the Kindle App. Is this possible?
Darn, I was wishing you were going to say "MacOS" because that would have made the answer a lot more fun (and do-able).
As far as I know, iOS still does not have an official SDK-legal way to have one app (your app) arbitrarily launch other app and specify an arbitrary document to open with it. This is part of the magic (?) of having to live within your own app sandbox.
On the Macintosh, this would be easy with Apple Events (among other things).
For example, if I were to write a calendar app on top of AIR, say with Flex, could this app pop up reminder windows for approaching appointments, just like Microsoft Outlook can?
Clarification: Can those windows be actual dialogs where I can enter and save information?
See Creating toast-style windows
Twhirl pops up "toast" notifications (similiar to most instant messengers), while it is running in the system tray.
So yes.
There are notification balloons tips but this method is going out of favor with systray icons in Windows 7 and it's not cross platform. Unfortunately, you can only call this in the Win32 API using Shell_NotifyIcon and there is no way to get to it from Air.
Stuck making your own toaster popups.
YES
Your Flex AIR application can pop up windows, dialogs, toasters, whatever.
Have a look at this article on the Adobe Website, for creating your own Toast Style Popups.
(Credit for this goes to Duncan Smart, answering this question.)