Tag Archives: actionscript

Restarting an AIR application

By Ian McKellar | March 11, 2009

For reasons too complicated and secret to go into here I’m writing an Adobe AIR application that needs to restart itself occasionally. I didn’t find any clear documents describing how to do this but after some reverse engineering and experimentation, here’s what I came up with.
The air.swf movie that’s used by web pages to install [...]

Three Months of ActionScript

By Ian McKellar | February 27, 2009

I’ve been working largely in ActionScript 3 for the past three months. After spending four years working primarily in JavaScript I didn’t expect to encounter too many problems with her cousin. That expectation was pretty well borne out.
I was particularly excited at the chance to play with ActionScript’s optional strict typing since that has been [...]