Creating a Windows AIR Native Extension with Eclipse – Part 1
The second I heard about Adobe giving us the ability to create our own extensions to the Flash Platform in AIR 3.0, I was smitten. It was finally a way that we could add our own features and do the...
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In part two of this video series, I go through how to actually program your ANE Windows DLL. This involves doing some C programming. Please see part 1 here. The snippets mentioned in this video are...
View ArticleCreating a Windows AIR Native Extension with Eclipse – Part 3
In part 3 of this video series, I talk about how to write the AS3 portion of the AIR Native Extension, and how to package all the components into your final .ANE file. You can watch part one here, and...
View ArticleConnecting your Arduino to AIR using an AIR Native Extension
One of the things that has been bugging the the most when working with Arduinos and AIR is the fact that you needed some sort of proxy application running in order to allow the AIR (or Flash)...
View ArticleWorking with AIR Native Extensions on the Mac
As I said in my previous blog post, creating the ArduinoConnector ANE for the MacOS X platform was frustrating. It turns out that Apple ships a slightly modified version of GCC that is close to what...
View ArticleCreating a Windows AIR Native Extension with Eclipse – Part 4
In this final of my 4-part video series, I show you how to import and use the ANE that we created in the last three videos. We will be using Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 to import the ANE, and we will...
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