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Ran into an issue today where when trying to upgrade and AIR project to Flex 3.3 I kept getting this error:

Luckily the fix is pretty simple.  Download the fixlinks.sh script from the link.  Copy it to your 3.3 SDK root, make it an executable and run it.  You should now be able to run your AIR application with Flex 3.3.

Flex Bug –> http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-19707

More information can be found here:

• Bug Fixes
• Downloads

If you don’t want to have the Gumbo Fx Class in Flex 4 then votes for this issue in the Flex Bug and Issue Management System.  If you don’t have an account create one and vote.  Hopefully Adobe will listen to the community and do what’s right. 

The issue can be found here: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17854

I just saw this link to the FlexFormatter come across my friend Tom Cornilliac’s Twitter stream and I was very happy.  One of my biggest issues with Flex has been a lack of any automatic formatting.  I’m really glad that Ernest Pasour decided to run with this.  To install just drop the jar file in you Eclipse plugins folder, configure your preferences, and your good to go.

I updated an AIR application to compile with SDK 3.2 from 3.1 and ran into the error below:

Process terminated without establishing connection to debugger.

Command:

/Users/dancashman/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3
Plug-in/sdks/3.2.0/bin/adl -runtime

/Users/dancashman/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3
Plug-in/sdks/3.2.0/runtimes/air/mac

/Users/dancashman/source/air_app/bin-debug/AIR-app.xml
/Users/dancashman/Cynergy/source/air_app/bin-debug

Output from command: error while loading initial content

I found the quick fix here: nabble.com

Summary:
Update your descriptor file namespace (yourApplication-app.xml)
New Value: <application xmlns=”http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5” >

I’ve just started to play around with Merapi and I feel that it adds a whole new dimension to AIR.  The Merapi website describes the project best “Merapi is a bridge between applications written in Java and those
running in and created for Adobe AIR™ (Adobe Integrated Runtime™).”  Check it out here, the possibilities are endless!

I had a problem the other day where I needed to only show one line of the AdvancedDataGrid but, I needed to maintain all data in the grid.  Unfortuantely If you set the verticalScrollPolicy to “off” the ability to scroll to an index goes with it.  The best solution that I found to work around this issue was to change the verticalScrollBarStyleName of the grid based on the state.  The style declarations and and example are below.

<mx:Style>
.hiddenScrollBar {
track-skin : ClassReference(null);
up-arrow-skin : ClassReference(null);
down-arrow-skin : ClassReference(null);
thumb-skin : ClassReference(null);
}
</mx:Style>