Hi Chris, AIR uses the underlying operating system stack for managing cookies. As such, cookies can be shared between different AIR applications and with browsers that use OS stack (e.g. Internet Explorer on Windows). From the official documentation as well as my experiments, cookies are preserved between application restarts. I suspect the application uses session cookies for authentication -- these are meant to be cleared when the browser exits and for a good reason (mostly security). AIR clears session cookies when the application closes, unlike some browsers (e.g. Firefox) that don't always clear them. From what I can tell, you have 2 choices here: change the authentication system to not use session cookies anymore -- I strongly suggest *NOT* to do this. write some code in the application to read/write the credentials from another kind of storage when run in AIR, for instance using the Encrypted Local Store. You could do this by inspecting the value of flash.system.Capabilities.playerType (see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/system/Capabilities.html#playerType ). You would have to write some AIR specific code, but it wouldn't require you to rewrite the authentication system. Hope this helps, Mihai ... View more

Hi Kevin, I might just have a better work-around for you. This workaround consists in using native drag events instead of "classic" drag events (see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/desktop/NativeDragManager.html and related classes). You can see below the modified sample that doesn't have this bug anymore. Hope this proves useful, Mihai <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"                             xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"                             xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"                             width="1024"                             height="768">      <fx:Script>           <![CDATA[                import flash.desktop.NativeDragOptions;                                import mx.core.DragSource;                import mx.events.DragEvent;                import mx.events.InterDragManagerEvent;                import mx.events.InterManagerRequest;                import mx.managers.DragManager;                import mx.managers.ISystemManager;                import mx.managers.SystemManagerGlobals;                                protected function image1_mouseMoveHandler(event:MouseEvent):void                {                     var dragInitiator:Image = event.currentTarget as Image;                     //var ds:DragSource = new DragSource();                     //ds.addData(dragInitiator, "image/png");                                   //DragManager.doDrag(dragInitiator, ds, event, img);                                          // Create new clipboard object                     var cb:Clipboard = new Clipboard();                     // Add the image URL to the clipboard (you could also add the actual bitmap data, etc.)                     cb.setData(ClipboardFormats.URL_FORMAT, img.source, true);                     // Extract the actual bitmap from the image component                     var bmp:Bitmap = img.content as Bitmap;                     // Start dragging                     NativeDragManager.doDrag(dragInitiator, cb, bmp.bitmapData);                }           ]]>      </fx:Script>            <fx:Declarations>           <!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->      </fx:Declarations>            <mx:HDividedBox width="100%" height="100%">           <mx:HTML                id="myHtml"                location="http://www.adobe.com/"                width="70%"                height="100%" />                      <s:VGroup width="30%" id="myPanel">                <s:TextInput id="textInput" />                <s:Label                     width="100%"                     text="On startup you can drag the image below.  Click on a hyperlink within the HTML widget and you can no longer drag the image anymore." />                                              <mx:Image                     id="img"                     source="http://www.adobe.com/homepage/include/style/default/SiteHeader/logo.png"                     mouseMove="image1_mouseMoveHandler(event)"/>           </s:VGroup>      </mx:HDividedBox> </s:WindowedApplication> ... View more

Hi Noel, I tested your sample with our latest builds and indeed it looks like we have a bug on Mac. I have logged a bug (internal reference number #2818702 ) and will keep you posted on how this works. I cannot promise however how fast it will get fixed. Thanks a lot for your help, Mihai ... View more

Hi Noel, Could you please be a little more specific? Are you using the ActionScript events (MouseEvent and the likes) or the JavaScript ones? Also, are you trying to build an HTML/JavaScript only application or are you using the HTMLLoader inside a Flex/Flash applications? A sample code would help, too I'll try to come up with a sample app, later this day. Have a nice day, Mihai Balan ... View more