What’s new in AIR 1.1

Adobe AIR 1.1 introduced the following new capabilities:

  • Installation and other runtime dialog boxes have been translated into:

    • Brazilian Portuguese

    • Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)

    • French

    • German

    • Italian

    • Japanese

    • Korean

    • Russian

    • French

    • Spanish

  • Support for building internationalized applications, including keyboard input for double-byte languages. See Localizing AIR applications.

    • Support for localizing the name and description attributes in the application descriptor file.

    • Support for localizing error messages, such as SQLError.detailID and SQLError.detailArguments, in the SQLite database.

    • Addition of Capabilities.languages property to obtain an array of preferred UI languages as set by the operating system.

    • HTML button labels and default menus, such as context menus and the Mac menu bar, have been localized to all supported languages.

  • Support for certificate migration from a self-signed application to one that chains to a certificate of authority (CA).

  • Support for Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and support for 64-bit editions of Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise.

  • Addition of File.spaceAvailable API to obtain the amount of disk space available on a disk.

  • Addition of NativeWindow.supportsTransparency property to determine whether a window can be drawn as transparent by the current operating system.

For more information about the AIR 1.1 release, see the Adobe AIR 1.1 Release Notes (http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_air_relnotes_en).

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