Thanks Jack...that's not quite what I meant. For example, even though the AIR method for minimizing a window to the system tray is short: nativeWindow.minimize();
It would be cool if this functionality was packaged up so that you could apply the minimize method directly to an object. Here's what I do now: // this assigns the minimize functionality to the minimize button $('#minimize').bind('click', function(event) { iface.minimize(); }); and here's how it could look: // this assigns the minimize functionality to the minimize button $('#minimize').air.minimize(); Obviously that's not a great example, but the code for adding a menu to an icon running in the task bar is much lengthier. You can see how this might benefit from an abstraction layer: setupIconTray: function() { // shortcut to the nativeApplication object var app = air.NativeApplication.nativeApplication; app.addEventListener(air.Event.COMPLETE, iconLoadComplete); // create new instance of icon loader var iconLoader = new air.Loader(); // these lines let me add a menu to the system tray. // we're not going to use this for now, but I want to keep it around // icontray.menu = new air.NativeMenu(); // var exitCommand = icontray.menu.addItem(new air.NativeMenuItem ("Exit Bullhorn")); // exitCommand.addEventListener(air.Event.SELECT, winmgr.close); if(air.NativeApplication.supportsSystemTrayIcon){ iconLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(air.Event.COMPLETE, iconLoadComplete); iconLoader.load(new air.URLRequest("images/AIRApp_16.png")); app.icon.addEventListener (window.runtime.flash.events.MouseEvent.CLICK, this.restore); app.icon.tooltip = "Shrinkadoo"; // app.icon.menu = icontray.menu; } // if(air.NativeApplication.supportsMenu) { // app.menu.addSubmenu(icontray.menu, "Windows"); function iconLoadComplete(event) { app.icon.bitmaps = new runtime.Array (event.target.content.bitmapData); } } Anyway...I might start writing one, but would love to get input from others who would be interested in helping out. On Jun 12, 11:52 am, Jack Killpatrick <j...@ihwy.com> wrote: > This may be of interest, though it's not jQuery encapsulation, it does > provide an abstraction layer: > > http://www.activerecordjs.org/index.html > > I've been using the ActiveRecord js implementation in AIR for a while > now and it's proven to be solid so far: > > http://www.activerecordjs.org/record.html > > - Jack > > > > Andy Matthews wrote: > > Does anyone know of a plugin for jQuery that encapsulates some, or > > all, of the AIR API? > > > andy