Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Reference

Index | 151

command line tools, 24
system path, placing in, 25
command-line arguments,
capturing, 127–129
conflicting user interfaces, 4
cookies, 46
Creative Commons Attribution-
Noncommercial-Share
Alike 3.0 License, xiv
cross domain data loading, 53

D
databases (see embedded
databases)
dataTransfer object, 110
desktop aliases, 147
desktop integration, 14
document technologies, 9
drag and drop,
enabling, 108–113
AIR limitations relating
to, 111

E
embedded databases, 113–127
connecting to, 114–115
data, accessing, 123–127
data, storing in, 119–121
tables, creating, 116–119
errors, 36
event aliases, 144
Event.COMPLETE event, 134,
135
events, 56

F
file aliases, 144
file API, 76–94
asynchronously reading text
from a file, 82–86

directory contents,

iterating, 91

synchronous reading of text

from a file, 79–82

temporary files, creating, 89

writing text from a

string, 76–79

XML files, loading data

from, 86–88

File class, 76, 94

File I/O API, 105

file pickers, 94–101

directories, browsing

for, 99–101

multiple files, browsing

for, 97–99

one file, browsing for, 94–96

file references, 76

File.browseForDirectory( )

method, 99

File.browseForOpen( )

method, 94

File.browseForOpenMultiple( )

method, 97

File.resolve( ) method, 77

FileStream class, 77

FileStream.open( ) method, 77

FileStream.writeMultiByte( )

method, 77

Flash, viii

Flash Player, 8

APIs, accessing from

JavaScript, 55

events, 56

Flex Builder, viii

Flex Framework, viii

G

Geometry Aliases, 146