No Dice with Yahoo Maps and AIR

Spending the last couple weeks refactoring Cayri’s code to be more modular, I was excited to start working on the AIR version of Cayri this morning. So I started up Flex Builder, drug my custom Yahoo Maps control onto the canvas, compiled the project, and got this sweet error:

Error: Error #2067: The ExternalInterface is not available in this container. ExternalInterface requires Internet Explorer ActiveX, Firefox, Mozilla 1.7.5 and greater, or other browsers that support NPRuntime.

This is just a heads up to those who are using an ExternalInterface work around for AS2 to AS3 communication, and are planning on moving your projects to AIR.

Ugh.

One Week Later

Well, it has been a week since Cayri was released, and I think the overall response has been very positive. It even received Editor’s Pick from Yahoo!  I’ve been poking around some of the flight sim forums where people have posted about Cayri, and I’ve noticed a lot of ooohs and aaahs. All of this is an awesome start, and now is when I’d like to hear what you - the user – would like to see implemented in the next release. So if you’d like to see a feature added, you can either email me, or head on over to the discussion group and post a request.

One area that I’d like to focus on is localization. I realize that not every flight simmer out there can read English, so I’m going to start with translations for French, German and Chinese. Hopefully I can get this working for the next release, which should be in the next week or two.