Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™ Programming in 24 Hours

Hour 6 Writing an AIR Application with HTML

In this hour, you’ll learn

    • Creating a Desktop AIR Application with HTML

    • Accessing the AIR Classes with JavaScript

    • A Few Cautionary Words About Security

Creating a Desktop AIR Application with HTML

In Hour 2, “Ready to Install AIR,” you saw the results of a simple HTML-based AIR application run from the AIR Debug Launcher (ADL) (refer to Figure 2.12). Figure 6.1 shows another simple AIR application loaded in Aptana Studio.

Figure 6.1 An HTML-based AIR application inside Aptana Studio.

In this section you see how you can build, test, and package an HTML/JavaScript-based ...