$(window).load(function()
{
    $(“.glowbox”).pulse(“box”, “pulse”, 500, 20);
    $(“.icon”).pulse(“icon”, “pulse”, 300);
});

You can download the example source from here

View the working example here

iOS background behavior [Not Supported]

On iOS, applications are not permitted to run in the background in a generic fashion. Instead, they must declare that they want to perform a certain type of background processing, such as keeping a voice-over-IP call going or completing a pending upload.

AIR does not provide support for this iOS background processing model, so when they are sent to the background, AIR apps are simply paused. Their framerate goes to zero, no events are dispatched, and no rendering occurs. They do, however, stay resident in memory by default. This allows the application to preserve its state when brought back to the foreground.

Android background behavior [Partially Supported]

On Android, applications are encouraged to do as little as possible in the background but do not have severe restrictions imposed. When an AIR application is sent to the background on Android, its animation framerate is reduced to four frames per second and, although all events continue to be dispatched, the rendering phase of the event loop is skipped.

AIR apps on Android therefore can continue to perform background tasks, such as completing an upload or download operation, or periodically syncing information. However, applications should take steps to further reduce their framerate, turn off or reduce other timers, and so on, when in the background.

Reference: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/considerations-air-apps-mobile.html

I used the example application for using Apple Push Notifications mentioned here – http://flashsimulations.com/2011/12/16/apple-push-notification-service-native-extension-for-adobe-air/

We need to follow the following steps in order to use Native Extensions for iOS on Windows using Flash Builder 4.6 and AIR 3.1:

- We need to add the app id configured in apple’s developer portal.

<!– A universally unique application identifier. Must be unique across all AIR applications.
Using a reverse DNS-style name as the id is recommended. (Eg. com.example.ExampleApplication.) Required. –>
<id>com.riaxe.testapp</id>

- We need to copy the Entitlements present in the pList file from the mobileprovision file

We can get the Entitlements from the mobileprovision file that we use. We can get the mobileprovision file from the apple’s developer portal.

We can copy the XML from the file under Entitlements section.

<key>Entitlements</key>
<dict>
<key>application-identifier</key>
<string>LACP5QKG47.com.riaxe.testapp</string>
<key>get-task-allow</key>
<true/>
<key>keychain-access-groups</key>
<array>
<string>LACP5QKG47.*</string>
</array>
</dict>

- We need to add the Entitlements XML structure onto the Application XML

<iPhone>
<Entitlements>
<![CDATA[
<key>application-identifier</key>
<string>LACP5WER47.com.riaxe.testapp</string>
<key>get-task-allow</key>
<true/>
<key>keychain-access-groups</key>
<array>
<string>LACP5WER47.*</string>
</array>
]]>
</Entitlements>
<InfoAdditions><![CDATA[
<key>UIDeviceFamily</key>
<array>
<string>1</string>
<string>2</string>
</array>
]]></InfoAdditions>
<requestedDisplayResolution>high</requestedDisplayResolution>
</iPhone>

Done!!! This would definitely fix build issues in Flash Builder 4.6 for iOS devices.

When we add components using MXML we often don’t face any issues related to the indexing.

<mx:ViewStack>

      <mx:Panel id=”panel1″/>

      <mx:Panel id=”panel2″/>

</mx:ViewStack>

But when we try adding the components at an index using Actionscript we often face issues with the initialization of the child view components.

private function addViewAtIndex(index:Number):void

{

      var pnl:Panel= new LoaderPanelCanvas();
      addChild(pnl);

}

I found a workaround to this. I extended the Canvas to create a custom component with all the related properties as shown below:

public class SlideViewStack extends Canvas
{

        public function SlideViewStack()
        {
            initialise();
        }

        private var _selectedIndex:Number = -1;
        public function get selectedIndex():Number
        {
              return _selectedIndex
        }

        public function set selectedIndex(value:Number):void
        {
            if(_selectedIndex == value)
                return;
            _selectedIndex = value;

            if(this.numChildren > 0)
                showSelectedChild();
        }

        private function showSelectedChild():void
        {
            for(var i:int = 0; i < this.numChildren; i++)
            {
                getChildAt(i).visible = false;
            }
            getChildAt(_selectedIndex).visible = true;
        }

}

Hope it helps

//Use this on initialisation

Multitouch.inputMode = MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT;

//Image Component with touch event

<s:Image id=”image” x=”203″ y=”380″ source=”@Embed(‘assets/image.png’)” touchBegin=”onTouchBegin(event)”/>

//Image pan on touch begin

protected function onPan(event:TransformGestureEvent):void
{
      image.x += event.offsetX;
      image.y += event.offsetY;
}

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Features Listed:

Flex 3 and Flash Builder 4 support. Works on both mx and spark components
Attachable Menus where functionality can be added programmatically
Tranforms almost all the components – Video, Image, Buttons etc without creating bitmap
Advanced tranform features like – Scale, Rotate, Horizontal and Vertical Flip
Automatic calculation of boundary while live transforming
Scaling of target using width and height ratio
Ability to add dynamic controls onto the transform tool
Fully customizable design of the transform tool
100% customizable code and graphic assets
Well documented actionscript methods and properties

Tranform tool v2

Live Example can be found here

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#include <windows.h>
#include <cstdio>

BOOL CALLBACK MyEnumWindowsProc(HWND hwnd, LPARAM lparam)
{
    HWND lShellWindow = GetShellWindow();
    int& i = *(reinterpret_cast<int*>(lparam));
    ++i;
    char title[256];
    ::GetWindowText(hwnd, title, sizeof(title));

    if (hwnd == lShellWindow) return true;
    if (!IsWindowVisible(hwnd)) return true;

    int lLength = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd);
    if (lLength == 0) return true;

    ::printf(title);
    ::printf(“\n”);
    return TRUE;
}

int main()
{
    int i = 0;
    ::EnumWindows(&MyEnumWindowsProc, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(&i));
    return 0;
}

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Hope this helps

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