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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007As promised, here is the code from last nights presentation.
Download it here
Apollo Self Updating Applications
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007One of the beauties of Apollo is the ability of the application to update itself whenever necessary. Those of us who are used to the client/server metaphor have never had to worry about this because if we found a bug in our code (yeah right), we could simply update the server and it is [...]
Apollo ActionScript / JavaScript Bridge
Monday, March 19th, 2007Bridging between JavaScript and ActionScript is very easy with Apollo. The following example will show how to call JavaScript functions from ActionScript and vice-versa. Special thanks to Oliver Merk of New Toronto Group for his contributions towards this example.
The MXML file defines a handler function for the call from JavaScript and then [...]
Balls - Transparent Apollo Sample - full source code
Monday, March 19th, 2007Balls was created to show the power of transparent windows within Apollo. Granted it is not the prettiest application I have ever built but it gets the point across, that not only can you have transparent windows but shapes as well. Full source code is available for download using the link below.
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FileSystem Components
Monday, March 19th, 2007The FileSystem components are a new set of components specific to Apollo which allow for easy access for browsing the file system. The example below defines the 4 files system components and points them to the systems desktop.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:ApolloApplication xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml”
layout=”absolute”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.filesystem.*;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:FileSystemDataGrid width=”555″ height=”154″ x=”6″ y=”7″
directory=”{File.desktopDirectory.resolve(”)}” />
<mx:FileSystemComboBox x=”10″ y=”169″
directory=”{File.desktopDirectory.resolve(”)}”/>
<mx:FileSystemTree x=”10″ y=”199″ width=”291″
directory=”{File.desktopDirectory.resolve(”)}”/>
<mx:FileSystemList x=”309″ y=”169″
directory=”{File.desktopDirectory.resolve(”)}”/>
</mx:ApolloApplication>
Here [...]