Jack... I just blogged about this idea: http://andymatthews.net/read/2009/06/12/jQuery-and-AIR:-AIR-methods-abstract ed-into-jQuery-plugin I think that this is a great idea and I'd love to get involved in it, but I'd want others to be included as well. My jQuery foo is fairly strong, but I've never written a plugin, and would really want someone to provide a good code review for best practices. The cool thing is that there wouldn't be much "jQuery" in the plugin. It's mostly an abstraction of the AIR APIs into a tighter, simpler package. I think the best place to start would be some of the lower hanging fruit. Some of the API methods that are straightforward and don't require a lot of options. Then we could move into SQLite, File System access, etc. Thoughts?
_____ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Killpatrick Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:07 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: AIR plugin for jQuery? OK, yeah, that's what I figured you were looking for. I haven't seen anything like that, but it would be cool if it existed. Doesn't seem like it would be a "ton" of work (famous last words). Have you got any thoughts about how it might work across the sandbox bridges? I use the bridges and build the non-app sandbox stuff very much like a regular web app and create and expose certain functions via the bridges to/from the app and non-app sandbox, since all the direct air API access can only happen in the app sandbox. I haven't really thought it out, but wondering if maybe you have. Maybe you're looking maybe for something that would just be used in the app sandbox and it'd be up to the end user to create the bridge stuff that they need? - Jack Andy Matthews wrote: 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 <mailto:j...@ihwy.com> <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
