For those of you who attended the on AIR bust tour last summer, you will remember an application that I demoed called SpitEmOut which allowed you to take screenshots from an FLV file and then see them get “spit out” onto the desktop. From there you can right-click and save it as a PNG. I have just updated this example for beta 3. Download it and check it out and you can also get the FLA file to see how it was built. You will need to run the application and then drag an FLV onto the player to get things started.
Lee
Check out my more utilitarian version.
I also have an app that does rapid screen shots of playing swfs to capture code generated imagery since you can output frames to images with dynamically drawn shapes.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1332019
Lee, when I saw you demo this in Toronto on the AirBus tour, my jaw dropped. Thanks for posting the update!
neat, I wonder how AIR is coming along? Any chance of a RC anytime soon? I resist picking up any books on AIR, figuring much of the content will be outdated in due time…but your tuts always rock Lee!
Hi!
What is the plan about air? When it will be released as 1.0?
Thank you!
It just won’t play.. I can’t get any FLV files to play in Windows Vista AIR b3.
Bit strange – I guess you haven’t been able to test it on a PC yet.. I’ll look at the FLA and try to fix it.
EDIT: Just compiled it again and it worked… even weirder…
Hey Lee,
I have one question and funny it is not so much about AIR, but more about distribution of and .air file.
I noticed you have a link to air file attached to picture. And when user clicks the picture .air file begins to download. I tried to do same thing in my .fla file. Here is example:
“”
someBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goDownload);
function goDownload(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var targetURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.artec.si/desktop/artecDesktop.air”);
navigateToURL(targetURL);
}
“”
Ok now it starts the download but Safari on my Mac changes .air to .zip.
But in your blog you have link to .air file and my Mac does not change the extension.
Is this Flash’s fault?
don’t know if anyone can help,
i have installed the latest versions of Air (the Air 1.0 installer and the Air update for Flash CS3) both linked from the same page on the adobe website, yet when i try and install an air file published from flash, i get an error message saying “This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported.”
i don’t understand this as i have the latest versions of everything..
any help would be much appreciated
also, none of the Air applications from this site will install either..
also, none of the Air applications from this site will install either..
yeah.. i get the same thing. hm.. anyone can help?
Could you post a version that works with the release version of AIR 1.0?
Hmm let me look into this problem. Sorry about that.
Make sure you uninstall all previous versions of AIR.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Release_Notes#Uninstalling_Adobe_AIR_Beta_3
hey lee this gonna be pretty offtopic but is adobe going to add some new possibilities to computeSpectrum option ? i mean, this would be more sensefull to have a SoundChannel.computeSpectrum than a SoundMixer one… neh ?
hi Lee, i tried to install your air applicaton but the instalation show me this:
This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.
I alredy have the air version from the adobe site.
what i should do for fix it?
thanks a lot
idd, incompatible…!?
Hope this isn’t happen alot with air apps. Is Adobe planning to make it down and upwards compatible?
It seems to me this could be a really BIG issue within the development and use of air apps.
Or am I wrong? hope I am…
kindest regards,
Sander van den Berg
Saw you at FITC 08 that was awesome. It seemed the SpitEmOut AIR Example Updated to Beta 3 example isn’t Air 1.0 compatible…is there an update to come? Thanks! Go AIR!
hi lee,
is there a chance to get a AIR 1.0 ready version? would be so great!! i love this application.
by the way, very cool show in berlin yesterday!!
best regards
bo
I tried to install your application on my system , but it received the belo message , Kindly help.
This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.
hi, app won’t install because it is out of date. you have a great site lee, but i can’t afford to have adobe outdate my work so rapidly! i will stick with processing for the time being. great potential though for art on air. please keep up posted.
well just wanted to say thanks, well I happen to be searching for some air app, when I saw a youtube presentation.It’s so amazing how at first a simple player can some how amaze the world:) trust me this FLV player is manificant & I’ve be searching it for 3 day:) until today:)So won’t bore you with much bla bla talking please do continue in amazing use:))))thx alot
I compiled it and installed it on Windows 7 and it worked except that the download image won’t work? Any clues?
Did a couple of things and it finally works. I have AIR 1.5.2, so when compiling, I set it to version 1.5; I have also changed the ID to something else. Not sure if these helps. I also found that I may need to move/select the image first and then right-click and “select download …”. If I just right-click and select “download…” it won’t work; If I have downloaded the first one and try to download the second one simply just right-click and select “Dowload…”, it will just download the first one.
Worrying. Really wanted to try this app too. Would be happy to apply the fix suggested above, but not everyone has the time, the inclination or resources to do this…
What’s the reason?
Is the application making function calls to obsolete methods?
Will this be addressed in future AIR updates (the Flash Player has never had any legacy problems).