Just ran into this gotcha while trying to apply a Resize transition for my AIR WindowedApplication in Flex 4 (Gumbo) using states. It appears — at least in my app — that simply setting the width.stateName and height.stateName doesn't work: it causes the animation to jump. Instead, I found that I also had to set explicitHeight.stateName, explicitWidth.stateName and minWidth.stateName and minHeight.stateName.

Here's a simple snippet to illustrate:

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I just whipped up an AIR app that should make it easier for people who don't have a Turkish keyboard but need to occasionally type in Turkish to use Turkish characters. Yes, it's a niche app :)

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• Top 10 free iPhone apps for designers | Moonsail design | Branding, graphic design, typography and web design
  What follows is a list of my favourite free apps for the iPhone. As a graphic designer, they make life easier, more fun and generally shinier!

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You might be wondering how Adobe AIR could cause an XCode/iPhone error. Apparently it can:

If you start getting the following error, "A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain", Adobe AIR may be to blame.

AIR apparently can change the default keychain and this breaks XCode's provisioning. The fix is to set the login keychain as default using Keychain Access.

• From DocumentFramgment to HTML code • mozillaZine Forums
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