Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™ Programming in 24 Hours

Hour 19 AIR and User Notifications

In this hour, you’ll learn

    • Creating Status Bar Notifications

    • Highlighting the taskbar

    • Coding pop-up (or toast) messages

    • Designing a system tray icon

    • Bouncing the Mac OS Dock Icon

Creating Status Bar Notifications

In this hour, you will see how AIR applications can be programmed to provide user notifications in the form of visual alerts that are sent from the AIR application through the operating system. These can be informational (such as, you are about to log out from an application) or critical (such as, your laptop battery needs to be recharged immediately). The AIR runtime allows your AIR applications to communicate informational and critical alerts to ...