This is a quick tutorial on importing the example AIRControl projects into Flash Builder. The following screenshots were taken from Flash Builder 4.7 for Mac but the steps for Windows and Flash Builder 4.6 for both platforms are nearly identical (I will note the differences).

I have published a small update to AIRControl which will hopefully address some scattered performance issues a few people have been reporting.

I have made the following changes:

• Limited the Windows extension to checking for new controllers to only once per second to improve performance.
• Added debug output that can be enabled for runtime debugging.

I have also added a new example for how to use the new debug callback function.

After much anticipation, and a few delays, AIRControl has been released!

This Adobe AIR Native Extension replaces my old and decrepit JoyQuery extension, and brings new features including improved controller support, POV hat switch support, the ability to get the name of the controller, and Mac OS X support!

The download includes a few example and full AS docs which should be enough for experienced ActionScript AIR developers to start making great apps! I will be posting an AIRControl tutorial in the coming days to help new developers get started!

One of the things this website gets a lot of traffic for is an Adobe AIR Native Extension I had made a few years back called JoyQuery (if you must have the old version, it is still available here). Since then I have been working in my spare time, which fluctuates in and out of existence, to create an updated version that is more powerful, more efficient, and has a more elegant API.

This new version, with a new name AIRControl, will be completely open-source (except for the Adobe AIR code libraries from the AIR SDK I cannot legally distribute), and be compatible with both Windows and, for the first time, Mac OS X. The project is currently hosted on my AIRControl GitHub repository.

I am nearly complete with this release. I have finalized the C++ code to interface with the game controllers, built the native libraries, and tested them; and they are running beautifully. Now I am currently in the process of writing the ActionScript side of the library, to expose all the wonderful new features of the native libraries to your projects. With all of the hard parts finally out of the way, I expect this release to be finished no later than this weekend!