Adobe AIR Development

[Sangram]

I want to use the QNX events in my AIR application for BB10 in Flash Professional. As in playbook, am I supposed to add some swc files in order to use the events as I am getting compiling error?

I want to use 'CardCloseEvent' but it is giving compilation error.

Thanks!

[jtegen]

Are you including the device ANE? I think that event is part of the invocation framework, which is in the device ANE.

[Sangram]

No... I am not including ANE. I thought that is part of SDK itself. Which ANE should be included and how?

Thanks!

[jtegen]

I did verify it is in the device ANE. Not certain how to do that in Flash Pro. It's pretty easy in Flash Builder.

[Sangram]

At least let me know how it is done in Flash builder, I will check if I can do some workaround in Flash pro.

Thanks!

[jtegen]

Recent thread has a post about the steps to create a new project that lists the steps to include ANEs.

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Adobe-AIR-Development/BB10-Air-Dev-Alpa-and-VM-Run-Time-Error...

[Sangram]

Thanks!

Yet it does not help in Flash Professional :-(

No one tried using ANE's in Flash Professional and there is no documentation on this.

Sangram

[KermEd]

In most languages, from a high level, what you need to do is go into your Project properties and add the ANE's manually.  It should be accessible anywhere you find references and assets in the properties.

A good example is here:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/using-ane-in-flash.html

1.Launch Flash Professional CS6, and create a new project of the type AIR, AIR for Android, or AIR for iOS (see Figure 1).
2.Choose File > Publish Settings.
3.Click the wrench icon next to Script for ActionScript Settings (see Figure 2).
4.Click the Library Path tab.
5.Click the Browse To Native Extension (ANE) File button (see Figure 3)
6.Navigate to the directory that contains your native extension and select the ANE file.
7.Click OK.

What they don't mention is to look carefully at the boxes.  Once you attach an ANE, they usually have a checkbox that you need to check to actualyl enable it.  It usually is off the screen and needs you to scroll over to it (on Flash Buillder 4.6 anyway).

If you keep having big issues, look at downloading the freeware AIR builder from http://developer.blackberry.com/air.

Cheers,

Ed.

[Sangram]

Thank you so much for the detailed reply. But adding ANE option is not available in Flash Professional 5.5, may be it is only in CS6 :-(

[KermEd · Accepted solution]

No worries,

Goto File > Actionscript Settings > Library Path

Press the + and browse to the ANE

Note:  If it will not allow you to add the ANE --- make a copy and rename it as SWF.  It worked for Flash Builder 4.5.

For each ANE, you may need to click on it and press the I button and change it to External. 

I'm not sure how Flash Pro builds your packages though - but that should set it up right.

Ed.