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Mileage Tracker

Mileage Tracker is an open source AIR application written in Flex. I originally wrote it to help me keep track of tax-deductible mileage. My wife drives all over the area for her business and doesn't write down her mileage (how many of us do?). She does, however keep all her appointments in iCal, along with the address where she went.

This application uses the Google Maps Flash API to determine the distance between two addresses. You can also specify a trip as a "round trip" to calculate the return trip as well.

As with all open source software, you can freely look at the source code and tell me how I could improve it!

This is beta software which means there are probably bugs I haven't found yet. There's also considerable room for improvement and new features. Please let me know in the comments what features you'd like to see in future versions.

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// version 9.0.115 or greater is required for launching AIR apps.
var so = new SWFObject("http://www.ear-fung.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/airinstallbadge.swf", "Badge", "215", "180", "9.0.115", "#FFFFFF");
so.useExpressInstall('http://www.ear-fung.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/expressinstall.swf');

// these parameters are required for badge install:
so.addVariable("airversion", "0.1 beta 1"); // version of AIR runtime required
so.addVariable("appname", "Mileage Tracker"); // application name to display to the user
so.addVariable("appurl", "http://mileage-tracker.googlecode.com/files/MileageTracker.air"); // absolute URL (beginning with http or https) of the application ".air" file

// these parameters are required to support launching apps from the badge (but optional for install):
so.addVariable("appid", "us.earfungu.mileagetracker"); // the qualified application ID (ex. com.gskinner.air.MyApplication)
so.addVariable("pubid", ""); // publisher id

// this parameter is required in addition to the above to support upgrading from the badge:
so.addVariable("appversion", "0.1 beta 1"); // AIR application version

// these parameters are optional:
so.addVariable("imageurl", "http://www.ear-fung.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/airapp_128.png"); // URL for an image (JPG, PNG, GIF) or SWF to display in the badge (205px wide, 170px high)
so.addVariable("appinstallarg", "installed from web"); // passed to the application when it is installed from the badge
so.addVariable("applauncharg", "launched from web"); // passed to the application when it is launched from the badge
//so.addVariable("helpurl", "help.html"); // optional url to a page containing additional help, displayed in the badge's help screen
so.addVariable("hidehelp", "false"); // hides the help icon if "true"
so.addVariable("skiptransition", "false"); // skips the initial transition if "true"
so.addVariable("titlecolor", "#00AAFF"); // changes the color of titles
so.addVariable("buttonlabelcolor", "#00AAFF"); // changes the color of the button label
so.addVariable("appnamecolor", "#00AAFF"); // changes the color of the application name if the image is not specified or loaded

// these parameters allow you to override the default text in the badge:
// supported strings: str_error, str_err_params, str_err_airunavailable, str_err_airswf, str_loading, str_install, str_launch, str_upgrade, str_close, str_launching, str_launchingtext, str_installing, str_installingtext, str_tryagain, str_beta3, str_beta3text, str_help, str_helptext
so.addVariable("str_err_airswf", "Running locally?