Adobe AIR: Controls flipped (mirrored) in certain build environments - apache-flex

I'm having an issue where certain controls are flipped, depending on the machine that I'm building my project on. On my development machine, when I build it, everything is okay. However, when I build it on our build server, some things are flipped. It seems to be things that are on a higher layer - for instance, options in the select control (see first image below), alerts/overlays (see second image below), etc. It's not just the text, either - the entire content is flipped, images and all.
I have verified that the code is exactly the same in both instances, so it must have something to do with settings or the flex SDK version. On my development machine, the Flex SDK version is 4.0.0.14159, and on the build server, the Flex SDK version is 4.1.0.16076. I can downgrade the SDK on the build server if needed - but could it really be an issue with the SDK? Any ideas?
Thanks!

It looks like this will be fixed in the 4.5 SDK--see SDK-26473 for workarounds.
I was able to fix the mirroring by turning off Flex 3 Compatibility Mode in the Flex compiler settings (if using mxmlc, -compatibility-version=4.0).

Your build machine must be set to a locale which uses right-to-left text, such as Hebrew or Arabic keyboard setting.

Oops - hadn't read all of dpstone's answer before I posted my comment to the question.
The answer to this problem is in the bug he linked to. You need to explicitly set the layout direction. You can do this in one of two ways.
1) in a .css file that you import into your main application file:
global
{
layoutDirection: "ltr";
}
OR
2) you can set it in a <style> tag in your main application file.
<mx:Style>
global
{
layoutDirection: "ltr";
}
</mx:Style>

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However, clearly any changes I make this way will be blown away upon the next update of Eclipse or of Mylyn Wikitext. Does anyone know of a better way to set the size of the preview text? Was that Appearance pane mentioned in the docs removed? If so, what replaced it? If not, any ideas why I might not be seeing it?

How to change JavaFx native Bundle exe icon

I am trying to chance the icon of the exe file created native bundling of javafx packaging but it still contains the default icon. Please suggest
primaryStage.getIcons().add(FileUtility.loadImage("icon.png"));
did not help, it only changes the title bar and task bar icon.
The ico file still gets generated and icon of the exe files remains the default one
I also tried to assign an icon in the project properties-> Deployment-> icon but did not help
I believe I have encountered the same issue and the solution is described in the following thread.
As a side note - neither specifying your icon in the build.xml file or via the project's options in the deployment section is going to work thus far, but it seems to be fixed in the upcoming release of 7u10.
I added response here How to set custom icon for javafx native package icon on Windows and thinks it is the same issue you started out with. However you seem to have moved on, but others might find it interesting...
I added src/main/deploy/package/windows/myapp.ico there and it finally worked :)
For you:
Create src/main/deploy/package/windows/ folder
Add icon with name ${project.build.finalName}.ico
Run mvn jfx:build-native
I haven't played with it extensively - just got it to work and wanted to share. So if you want to use icon with different name, I don't know how. Not yet at least. The ... section in the config section seems to be for webstart, so I haven't been using it. Hope you get it to work!
Answered at How to set custom icon for javafx native package icon on Windows

How to set icon to an adobe air application

I am developing an Adobe Air app. I need to set an icon to the app so it is shown on the task bar. I added the icon tag to the descriptor file but it is not working and I really don't know why, any ideas?
Two things that might be throwing you off:
1) the icons block is commented out by default in the auto-generated descriptor file, and is an easy thing to overlook
2) the icons specified in a descriptor file don't appear in the app unless you build a release build, and install the resulting .air file. A debug build will only show the AIR icon.
At least these are the behaviors I experience in Flash Builder 4.
Adding the icons to your application descriptor should do it.
However, icons come in different sizes.
For example:
<icon>
<image16x16>/icons/app/icon_16.png</image16x16>
<image29x29>/icons/app/icon_29.png</image29x29>
<image32x32>/icons/app/icon_32.png</image32x32>
<image36x36>/icons/app/icon_36.png</image36x36>
<image48x48>/icons/app/icon_48.png</image48x48>
<image57x57>/icons/app/icon_57.png</image57x57>
<image72x72>/icons/app/icon_72.png</image72x72>
<image114x114>/icons/app/icon_114.png</image114x114>
<image128x128>/icons/app/icon_128.png</image128x128>
<image512x512>/icons/app/icon_512.png</image512x512>
</icon>
If I'm not mistaken, the 32x32 icon should be the one that is displayed in the taskbar.
Obviously, make sure that you are referring to the correct path in your descriptor file.
One more thing. I just wasted over an hour on this: For an iOS app, you won't see the icon when you drop the app into iTunes (at least not under Windows), but it will appear on your device!

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<cssmd:property-def _locID="overflow" ...
After that section, insert:
<cssmd:property-def
_locID="overflow-x" _locAttrData="description,syntax"
type="enum"
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If on 64-bit, you will have to go to SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft etc
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