Comments on: AIR Windows

By: Murtaza

Murtaza — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:46:44 +0000

So is there a way to pass variables from one nativeWindow to another? Say for example I have this :
var wOptions:NativeWindowInitOptions = new NativeWindowInitOptions();
wOptions.systemChrome = NativeWindowSystemChrome.NONE;
var newWindow:NativeWindow = new NativeWindow(wOptions);
newWindow.bounds = new Rectangle(0, 0, 1024, 768);
var loaderMC:Loader=new Loader();
loaderMC.load(new URLRequest(”testing.swf”));
newWindow.stage.addChild(loaderMC);
newWindow.activate();

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so i have a new window opened up and now i want the testing.swf to receive a variable from that “original opener”
is that possible?

By: robin

robin — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:30:42 +0000

var newWindow:Window = new Window();
newWindow.title = “A title”;
newWindow.width = 480;
newWindow.height = 320;

var sw:Number=Capabilities.screenResolutionX;
var sh:Number=Capabilities.screenResolutionY;
newWindow.x=(sw-newWindow.width)/2;
newWindow.y=(sh-newWindow.height)/2;
var ft:HTML=new HTML();
//var ft:TextField=new TextField();
ft.htmlText=data.content;
newWindow.addChild(ft)
newWindow.open();
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i use window class ,but the window show nothing

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:02:36 +0000

As a follow up to my last comment in case people might be wondering, this works…

this.nativeWindow.addEventListener(NativeWindowBoundsEvent.MOVING, movingWindow);
public function movingWindow(event:NativeWindowBoundsEvent):void{
trace(”moving”);
}

this refers to the main window of the WindowedApplication, within each window mx object (including the ‘this’ WindowedApplication) is a nativeWindow which is what is needed for the event watching.

PS. Instead of MOVING , you can replace this with MOVE (after event has moved), or RESIZE, etc. Check the docs for NativeWindowBoundsEvent events.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:20:20 +0000

This works great… A few questions that someone may be able to answer
1) Is there an easier way to send a referenced of WindowedApplication to the new Window instance other than sending the reference of (this) from the WindowedApplication.
2) How do you handle a moving event for a Window class (which includes WindowedApplication). A moving event only works for a NativeWindow which is at the heart of every Window object. So if I’m in the parent, can I reference it as : this.NativeWindow.addEventListener(NativeWindowBoundsEvent.MOVING, mainAppWinMoving)

That’s just rough code from the top of my head, but it threw me an error as I started to move it (if I remember correctly, don’t have it right in front of me). The error was a casting one I think.

By: everythingflex

everythingflex — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:47:58 +0000

You could pass a reference of the parent into the new window or create an event listener on the parent to listen for events being broadcast from the new window.