A chain should be possible too. However, you probably don’t want to use InputWireJack and OutputWireJack. I wouldn’t know for sure without testing, but you might be able to use their base class, WireJack, without any modifications. It doesn’t have default restrictions on how it can be connected to specific types of jacks.

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Thanks

Personally, I found that it felt a little more natural for my finger to do two simple clicks to connect a pair of jacks rather than mouseDown->drag->mouseUp. That said, not everyone may agree, so the standard drag behavior is still the default.

WireJack.clickToDrag = true;

As you can see above, it’s easy to setup. Since it is a static property, you can just drop that directly in an MXML Script block (no function needed).

First you need to download the source from SVN. Create a Flex Library project and make sure to include the AIR libraries.

Next open up WireJackArrowDragImage.as

Line 164 – updateDisplayList method

replace this:

var proxy:DragProxy = DragProxy(this.parent);

with this:

var proxy:DragProxy;
if ( Capabilities.playerType == 'Desktop' )
{
   proxy = DragProxy(this.parent as NativeDragManager);
} else {
   proxy = DragProxy(this.parent);
}

add a private var tempStage:Stage to the class, and within the addedStageHandler set tempStage = this.stage

finally, within addedToStageHandler and stageMouseUpHandler change the reference this.stage to tempStage

compile and use the resulting SWC within your AIR app. It should work without any errors. I realize it’s kind of a hack, but it gets the job done relatively simply.

The problem has to do with the fact that if you are using WindowedApplication as your application root tag, the application by default will only use the NativeDragManager. Your two options for getting flexwires to work in an AIR application are 1) build your AIR app with Application as the application root tag, or 2) use something like my little hack.

However does it work with just Raw AS3? Also I’m going to make this work with multi-touch