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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About this book | |
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| Introducing Adobe AIR | |
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| Anatomy of Adobe AIR | |
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| Developing for a runtime environment | |
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| Why build desktop applications? | |
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| Exploring AIR possibilities | |
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| Running AIR applications | |
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| AIR application security and authenticity | |
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| Understanding AIR application security | |
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| Ensuring application authenticity | |
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| Building AIR applications | |
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| Introducing AIR application descriptors | |
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| The application element | |
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| The id element | |
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| The version element | |
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| The filename element | |
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| The initialWindow element | |
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| The name element | |
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| The title and description elements | |
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| The installFolder element | |
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| The programMenuFolder element | |
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| The icon element | |
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| The customUpdateUI element | |
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| The fileTypes element | |
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| Building AIR applications using Flex Builder | |
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| Configuring a new AIR project | |
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| Creating AIR project files | |
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| Testing the AIR application | |
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| Creating an installer | |
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| Building AIR applications using Flash | |
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| Configuring a new AIR project | |
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| Creating AIR project files | |
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| Testing the AIR application | |
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| Creating an installer | |
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| Building AIR applications using the Flex SDK | |
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| Configuring a new AIR project | |
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| Creating AIR project files | |
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| Testing the AIR application | |
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| Creating an installer | |
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| Quick-start AIR application for Flex | |
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| Quick-start AIR application for Flash | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applications, windows, and menus | |
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| Understanding applications and windows | |
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| ActionScript application and windows | |
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| Flex application and windows | |
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| Managing windows | |
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| Retrieving window references | |
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| Positioning windows | |
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| Closing windows | |
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| Ordering windows | |
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| Moving and resizing windows | |
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| Managing applications | |
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| Detecting idleness | |
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| Launching applications on startup | |
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| Setting file associations | |
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| Alerting the user | |
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| Full-screen mode | |
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| Menus | |
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| Creating menus | |
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| Adding elements to menus | |
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| Listening for menu selections | |
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| Creating special menu items | |
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| Using menus | |
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| Starting the AirTube application | |
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| Overview of AirTube | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Building the data model | |
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| Building the AirTube service | |
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| Retrieving.flv URLs | |
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| Building the AirTube main window | |
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| Adding the video and HTML windows | |
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| Summary | |
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| File system integration | |
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| Understanding synchronicity | |
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| Canceling asynchronous file operations | |
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| Getting references to files and directories | |
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| Introducing the File class | |
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| Referencing common directories | |
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| Relative referencing | |
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| Absolute referencing | |
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| Accessing a full path | |
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| User referencing | |
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| Making paths display nicely | |
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| Listing directory contents | |
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| Getting directory listings synchronously | |
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| Getting directory listings asynchronously | |
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| Creating directories | |
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| Removing directories and files | |
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| Copying and moving files and directories | |
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| Reading from and writing to files | |
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| Reading from files | |
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| Writing to files | |
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| Reading and writing music playlists | |
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| Building the data model | |
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| Building the controller | |
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| Building the user interface | |
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| Storing data securely | |
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| Writing to files with AirTube | |
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| Summary | |
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| Copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop | |
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| Using a clipboard to transfer data | |
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| What's a clipboard? | |
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| Understanding data formats | |
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| Reading and writing data | |
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| Removing data from a clipboard | |
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| Understanding transfer modes | |
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| Deferred rendering | |
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| Copy-and-paste | |
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| Selecting a clipboard | |
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| Copying content | |
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| Pasting content | |
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| Cutting content | |
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| Using custom formats | |
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| Drag-and-drop | |
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| Understanding drag-and-drop | |
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| Drag-and-drop events | |
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| Using the drag manager | |
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| Adding drag indicators | |
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| Dragging out of an AIR application | |
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| Dragging into an AIR application | |
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| Adding drag-and-drop to AirTube | |
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| Summary | |
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| Using local databases | |
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| What is a database? | |
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| Understanding SQL | |
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| Creating and deleting tables | |
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| Adding data to tables | |
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| Editing data in tables | |
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| Deleting data from tables | |
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| Retrieving data from tables | |
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| Creating and opening databases | |
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| Running SQL commands | |
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| Creating SQL statements | |
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| Running SQL statements | |
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| Handling SELECT results | |
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| Typing results | |
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| Paging results | |
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| Parameterizing SQL statements | |
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| Using transactions | |
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| Building a ToDo application | |
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| Building the to-do item data model class | |
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| Creating a to-do item component | |
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| Creating the database | |
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| Creating an input form | |
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| Adding SQL statements | |
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| Working with multiple databases | |
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| Adding database support to AirTube | |
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| Updating ApplicationData to support online/offline modes | |
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| Adding a button to toggle online/offline modes | |
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| Supporting offline saving and searching | |
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| Summary | |
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| Network communication | |
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| Monitoring network connectivity | |
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| Monitoring HTTP connectivity | |
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| Monitoring socket connectivity | |
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| Adding network monitoring to AirTube | |
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| Summary | |
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| HTML in AIR | |
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| Displaying HTML in AIR | |
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| Using native Flash HTML display objects | |
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| Loading PDF content | |
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| Using the Flex component | |
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| Controlling how AIR loads HTML | |
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| Controlling content caching | |
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| Controlling authentication | |
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| Specifying a user agent type | |
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| Managing persistent data | |
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| Setting defaults | |
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| Scrolling HTML content | |
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| Scrolling HTML in Flex | |
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| Scrolling HTML content using ActionScript | |
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| Creating autoscrolling windows | |
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| Navigating HTML history | |
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| Interacting with JavaScript | |
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| Controlling HTML/JavaScript elements from ActionScript | |
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| Handling JavaScript events from ActionScript | |
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| Building a hybrid application | |
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| Handling standard JavaScript commands | |
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| Referencing ActionScript elements from JavaScript | |
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| Managing security issues | |
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| Sandboxes | |
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| Sandbox bridges | |
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| Adding HTML to AirTube | |
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| Summary | |
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| Distributing and updating AIR applications | |
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| Distributing applications | |
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| Using the default badge | |
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| Creating a custom badge | |
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| Updating applications | |
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| Launching AIR applications | |
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| Handling invoke events | |
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| Launching AirTube with a file | |
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| Listening for browser events | |
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| Summary | |
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| Index | |