Flash on the Desktop…everywhere. Flash CS3 supports AIR output September 12, 2007

This week has been week of Desktop Based Flash. 1) Using Director + the Buddy API Xtra, 2) a client with a C++ and F-in-Box, and just finishing up save capability 3) AIR Local File Access for Flash
Testing applications inside of these projectors can really slow down application development as it's compile in flash, and then test in the projector.

Still I'm quite stoked to see that Flash IDE has an update to support building AIR apps in the IDE. This rocks for several reasons as many apps I make are based off XML configuration or could benefit from making tools to help generate the data.  Here is a good post on actually using the update to create a hello world example.

This is after spending a week battling with bizarre Shared Object behavior. Memo to self, don't depend on SharedObjects for reliable desktop storage!