Air 1.0 doesn’t support Mouse.hide()

I’m currently developing a touch screen application in Flash AS3 and thought I would deploy it as an AIR application. However I found out that the Mouse.hide function doesn’t work in AIR 1.0, even though the documentation sys otherwise:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/ui/Mouse.html#hide()

this isn’t that much of an issue as you can just publish a flash file as an EXE but it does mean that I have to have all the linked assets with the EXE, whereas if it was an Air app all files would be included so less could go wrong when it gets sent to the client.

I was trying this in my full screen application with custom chrome, but also tried it in a brand new AIR file and the mouse cursor is still visible.

If any one has got this to work and I’m just being stupid pleas let me know or if you have the same problem let me know I’m not alone.

Flickr Viewer Component

This is an AS3 component that uses the Yahoo Flickr API to request the thumbnail photos based on the search criteria, which can be titles or tags.
A grid of 20 thumbnails is displayed along with the total amount of photos available for that particular search, the thumbnails are split in to pages of 20 very easily as the Flickr API request allows you to specify the amount of images you want per page and what page you currently want.
I have noticed one error with the response, the total number of images changes randomly as you change page, you would expect it to increase now and then as people upload new photos but it decreases sometimes, which is a bit odd.

You can also view the full size image and title by clicking on a thumbnail.

I wanted to see how easy it would be to deploy this component as a standalone AIR application. It was as simple as changing the publish type, you can try the Flickr viewer AIR app here

David Cowley Art

David Cowley Art is a PHP, CSS and HTML portfolio site for the artist David Cowley.
I created this during my short time at Glasseye, I was the sole designer and developer on this project. The site is going for a minimalist design and feel, to complement and show off the work but not intrude on visitor’s experience of David’s work.
Slimbox, a lightweight clone of the popular JavaScript component was used to display all the images in an overlay.

Check out the site here :

http://www.davidcowleyart.co.uk

David Cowley Art - home page

David Cowley Art - portfolio page

David Cowley Art - image overlay with slimbox

Paul Davis & Partners

I was part of the team at Emak Mafu that built this 100% flash AS3 site with an AMF PHP backend for an architect.
I created components to display 100% of the text and images on the site, I also created the project page component and the thumbnail people explorer in the contact section.

Check out the site here:
http://www.pauldavisandpartners.com

Project page – image viewer with text

Thumbnail people explorer

Contact Page

Fairfield Energy

I was part of the team at Emak Mafu that built this 100% flash AS2 site with an AMF PHP backend for a North Sea oil producer.
I created components to display 100% of the text in the website, all of the images and videos via an overlay.
The video component extended the FLV Play back component and I created a custom skin swf for it.

Check out the site here:

http://www.fairfield-energy.com/

Fairfield Energy website homepage Fairfield Energy website homepage

Video Component with custom skin and functionality

Custom image viewer component