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Many people think of Twitter apps when they think of Adobe AIR, but there is a whole other world of useful applications out there beyond microblogging.

Designers and developers in particular get a lot of love from the AIR community with tools to help them with just about every aspect of their jobs. Here are over 30 great Adobe AIR apps for designers and developers that can help you do everything from tracking your time to measuring pixels, and more.

What are some of your favorite AIR applications as a designer or developer?  Tell us in the comments!

Billing & Invoicing Tools

Klok – Klok allows you to not only track time by clients and projects, but what kind of work you do for each. You can also manage contact information for clients, edit time spent and a slew of other features.

Ora Time and Expense – Ora will help you generate timesheets, expense reports and invoices.

Timeloc – Does everything you could ask of a time keeper such as manage multiple clients and jobs, edit the billing so you see a running tally of how much a job has earned you, add notes to a billing period and a whole lot more.

Vertabase Timer – Allows you to track time by clients or by project.

Color & Pattern Tools

Color Browser – Allows you to import color palettes you have created elsewhere, create new ones locally, and put as many colors as you like into any you create.

COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder – This app will let you search the COLOURlovers database for an astonishing 1 million named colors and more than 300,000 user created color palettes.

Kuler Desktop – This app allows you to browse and choose color palettes for any project you’re working on. When you’ve picked one you like, you can then import it to Creative Suite 3 Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.

Random Patter – Allows you to render patterns based on set parameters and then save as an XML document, and images can be saved as an SVG document.

Design Tools

Alcon – A debugging tool for users of ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3.

BetaDesigns Caliper – This tool floats above your other applications so that you can measure any item on your screen.

designview – Gives you the ability to use Flex Builder Design View.

Dojo Toolbox – A toolbox to work along with the open source Dojo JavaScript tools. Allows you to view your work, cross-reference, use the build tool and a whole lot more.

e2vector illustration app. – Allows you to create new images and export them to SVG, or you can import existing ones to work on.

htmlText Editor – A WYSIWYG editor for htmlText that allows you to design visually for Flex.

Icon Generator – Allows you to generate icons in three steps for CS3 or Web 2.0 style. All icons are generated as 128×128, 48×48, 32×32 and 16×16.

pixDIF – Allows you to measure pixel differences easily between comps and design implementations.

Pixus – Allows you to easily measure the size of a screen object, set size presets, preview your design and more.

Shrink O’ Matic – Drag your JPGs, GIFs and PNGs into the app and then resize them as one batch.

Miscellaneous Tools

.merlin – A manager for fonts that will make sure they are named correctly, sort them into folders by letter, allow you to delete duplicates and more.

Balsamiq Mockups For Desktop Demo – An application for designing mockups of software before going to coding. Teams can work in real time on a project and it also integrates with Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA and XWiki.

ConceptShare Desktop Companion – A web tool that allows you to create workspaces for a project and then share it with others so you can collaborate on the project.

LibraryManager – Allows you to dump SWF files, see the class information, create information and compare versions.

QR Code generator for mobile tagging – Helps you generate QR codes for your sites and projects.

QuickLoader – Allows for quick uploading and downloading of files from any PHP enabled server. You can define multiple users with different folders, as well as browse & modify files on your server. Has several other features such as an image editor.

Simple Flash Filter Generator – Allows you to generate flashfilters and code in real time.

SlideRocket Player – Allows you to make offline presentations of your work and set up a marketplace to sell more services.  Also will allow you to sync with your desktop to make offline presentations, but this requires a paid account.

Snippely – Allows you to store, label and organize various snippets of code in one centralized location on your system.

SQLFury – Aids you in testing an SQL database for possible injection vulnerabilities.

Screencapture Tools

Snapshooter – Enter a valid URL and this app will take a snapshot of the web page to save to your system locally.

SWFShot – Allows you to capture Flash images as JPGs or PNGs in huge screen sizes.

WebKut – A website screen capture tool that allows you to capture the entire page, the viewable area or just a selection.

Websnapshot – Simply enter or drag the URL of that page you want to snapshot from your browser.  Select thumbnail, browser size or full page, and it is saved to your gallery.

但是在Air中貌似没有直接提供这种方法。

但是有位大师做到了。

《Can One AIR Application Launch Another?》

简单地翻译一下：

madhu 提了一个问题 one AIR appliaction can launch another.回答是肯定的，尽管不是直接的。

现在没有API（至少目前没有）运行AIR程序直接运行其他程序。但是,可以通过Air Browser API调用一个网页中的AIR 程序（请注意，这些程序必须是已经载入）。并且，因为您可以在AIR中保存一个网页，那将可能使得您的用户单击后产生两个间接的影响（这句话好像翻译不准确）

以下是简单的步骤：

1、在被载入的程序了，请确认<allowBrowserInvocation>在描述中已经设置。

2、在载入的程序中，声明一个HTMLLoader实例/对象。

3、写一个这样的SWF实现这样的功能：在用户单击后，调用Browser API launchApplication()方法(您可以可以使用同样的方法调用SWF)

4、调用SWF到您的HTMLLoader实例中。

需要用户单击的理由之前讨论过.The AIR Browser API and User Events

最后提示一下：这种方法同样可以用于从另外一个AIR程序安装AIR程序。

下载链接： DOWNLOAD AMETHYST PE (beta 1) (2.3MB approx)

需要.Net Framework 3.5 SP1

当然，目前这款工具可能还不怎么完善，但是至少看到了希望，希望越来越好！：）

要在JavaScript中使用SWC库您需要按以下步骤。

1、下载SWC格式的ActionScript库.您可以使用corelib.swc作为示例，然后重命后缀为zip(或其他存档格式，如RAR);

2、下一步，解压缩其中的library.swf（其实上一步可以不用重命名，只要打开方式选择WinRAR即可)

3、重命名为corelib.swf，然后把它放在项目文件夹下

最后，将以下代码放置在您的程序中以引入库

现在，您就可以引用库中的任何方法：

import com.adobe.utils.ArrayUtil;
var isEqual = new  com.adobe.utils.ArrayUtil.arraysAreEqual(array1,array2)

Translated From:http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/2008/12/using-actionscr.html

SapphireSteel Software 今天宣布了即将发行的Amethyst,一个使用Adobe Flex/AIR 开发RIA的IDE。

Amethyst 将会有两个版本

Amethyst个人版(免费)-Amethyst Personal Edition

Amethyst 个人版是一个提供了为Flex/AIR/ActionScript提供了项目管理，代码编辑，编译运行的环境的免费版本。它将完全免费并且可以自定义安装在免费的Visual Studio ‘Shell’ edition（Visual Studio 2005及以下的同学赶快升级吧）

Amethyst 专业版(商业版，收费）-Amethyst Profressional

Amethyst 专业版为Flex和AIR提供了一个拖拽的可视化设计环境。可视化的设计器将会被集成到Visual Studio的工具箱中,属性窗体和代码编辑器将会为C#和VB开发者提供一个无缝的设计/编码体验。

Amethyst 专业版也会包含完整的智能功能，包括了代码提示，代码导航和自动展开摘录(auto-expanding snippets)。Amethyst Profressional 将会智能化分析预编译库和书写的代码。同时，它将提供一个与调试其他Visual Studio 语言一样的调试器用来一步步地验证代码，获取和检查变量。

Amethyst建立在SapphireSteel Software Ruby In Steel(一个用于Ruby on Rails的Visual Studio IDE)的经验之上。当然Amethyst只不面向Ruby开发者,Amethyst将会有选择性地将Ruby In Steel项目整合进去，用Ruby on Rails为Flex和AIR程序提供支持。（当然也包括其他Visual Stuido 支持的语言，如C#和ASP);

>>状况

Amethyst 个人版(beta)将会在2008年12月的第二个星期发布。

Amethyst专业版(beta)将会在2009年的第一季度，最终版本将会在第二季度发布。

虽然一直不是非常看好AIR（就像是用.Net写个记事本，让普通用户再装个硕大的.Net Framework，可能么？有点极端。相信不少人对此有异议，各有各的看法吧），不过这个网站还不错。收集了不少AIR程序。还可以上传自己的AIR程序。

http://www.apollohunter.com/

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