Yesterday and today, I have been working on an Adobe Air application that makes use of Dean Edwards Javascript Compressor called “Packer“. I found myself using Packer more and more often, and it was becoming a bit of a pain loading up the page, copy and pasting my Javascript in, and then creating the compressed file. Most of the time I ended up closing the page by mistake. Anyway, I wanted my own lazy way of doing it, so I set out to create an application that could open and save out files.

So with permission from Dean (thanks Dean) to use his Packer script, I give you AIRPacker…

As you can see, the layout is basically the same as what is on the Packer page. Most of my time was spent learning the AIR API.

At the moment it has only been really tested on Windows, I don’t have access to a Mac at home, so let me know of any problems.

To run the application, you will need Adobe AIR.

Install from your browser…

Here is the AIR file…

AIRPacker

Note: This is a beta.

If anyone wants the source, just open it up with winrar and extract the contents. Or I could upload a zip file if people want it.

Any problems, please post a comment.