Known issues | AIR 2 SDK 2.0, Packager for iPhone Preview | Flash Pro CS5

This TechNote details known issues when using Package for iPhone Preview and Adobe Air 2 with Flash Pro CS5

• Packager for iPhone Preview
• Adobe AIR 2

• When you try to build an API with the ipa-debug option without including a debug-enabled SWF file, the following nondescriptive error message appears: "Fail to compile with Invalid input swf".  Adobe plans to have the packager display a more descriptive error message in a future update.
• New AIR 2 networking APIs available in the "desktop" profile of AIR 2 are not supported on the iPhone this release. However, the isSupported property for these APIs returns true. In a future release Adobe plans to have isSupported  return false. These updates include the flash.net.dns package; the DatagramSocket, InterfaceAddress, IPVersion, NetworkInfo, NetworkInterface, SecureSocket, ServerSocket classes and the Socket.bind() method.
• Fullscreen resolution on the Apple iPad is currently not supported. Adobe plans to support this in a future release.
• There are known issues around the use of GraphicsTrianglePath with UVT coordinates.
• Setting the z property for an off-stage display object results in invalid width and height values.
• Helvetica fonts are offset downwards by approximately 5 pixels. You can work around this known issue by using _sans fonts or by manually adjusting text field positions.
• In some cases when using hardware acceleration (<renderMode>gpu</renderMode>), filters and blend modes don't work properly.
• Very short sounds don't play on the iPhone. You can work around this issue by adding 0.1 second or more of silence to the audio file.
• There are known issues with RTMFP Direct Routing and P2P Peer Streams.
• There is an error when publishing an IPA file that includes a file from a network drive on Windows. You can work around this issue by mapping the network drive or by copying the files locally.
• When you use hardware acceleration, certain images with bitmap effects are not rendered or render incorrectly.

• Support for top-level activation and automatic announcement of a screen's contents is not complete.
• Screen reader support is not available for top-level HTML applications and HTMLLoader control.
• The focus sometimes switches from the AIR application to the command prompt. Entries in a DataGrid in an ItemRenderer component aren't always read correctly if command prompt is open.

• After you install AIR using a native installer version of an AIR application on Linux, the badge installation mechanism doesn't always work. When this occurs, you see the following error: "Sorry, an error has occurred. The application could not be installed. Try installing it again. If the problem persists, contact the application author. Error #1". To resolve the issue, try installing any air application (the .air file) using Adobe AIR Application Installer and then relaunch the browser.

•  navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.google.com"), "_blank") does not bring Firefox to the foreground if the Firefox browser was restored or maximized but obscured behind other windows.(1609175)

• Java versions 1.5 and above do not accept high-ASCII characters in passwords used to protect PKCS12 certificate files. Java is used by the AIR development tools to create the signed AIR packages. When you export the certificate as a .p12 or .pfx file, use only regular ASCII characters in the password.(1908199)

• (Mac 10.6 only) When you open a new native window, the first menu's label always shows the Mac logo. (2442577)

• (Mac OS only) NAI packaging may fail if the SDK or the files you are packaging are in a path with Unicode characters, or if the <filename> descriptor tag has Unicode. This issue is due to underlining Java issue with Unicode filenames. (2539439)

• (Mac OS 10.6 only) The application menu bar is not visible when the application is run from the command line with ADL.(2530559)

• File.openWithDefaultApplication() cannot find a specific application through Windows Shortcut (.lnk) files on Windows 7. However, many other shorcut (.lnk) files work fine. (2573727)

• The <IMG> tag isn't displaying ICO files on Mac 10.4/10.5. This issue doesn't occur on Mac OS 10.6 (2563698)

• An exiting event is not dispatched properly when the HTML Introspector is open in top-level HTML application. (2559508)

• If you have an AIR 2 application that uses the "2.0beta2" namespace, you cannot install an AIR 2.0 app over it. Doing so displays an error message saying that there's something wrong with the AIR file and to contact the application vendor. To address this issue, uninstall the beta version of the application and then install the 2.0 version of the app. (2559067)