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Monday, March 19th, 2007Tweet Balls 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. Download the [...]
FileSystem Components
Monday, March 19th, 2007TweetThe 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. 1234567891011121314151617<?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″ [...]
HTML Control
Monday, March 19th, 2007TweetThe mx:HTML control is something that is unique to Apollo and is very easy to integrate into your application. It can be used to simply load in an external html file by location as shown here: 123456<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <mx:ApolloApplication xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” layout=”absolute”> <mx:HTML id=”html” location=”http://blog.everythingflex.com”/> </mx:ApolloApplication> OR It can be used for custom html using [...]
Windowing with Apollo – full source code
Monday, March 19th, 2007Tweet Windowing in Apollo is a very simple task. The Windowing sample will demonstrate this by allowing you to set the preferences of the new window by setting NativeWindow and NativeWindowInitOptions properties, and then manage the windows by tracking them within a custom Array. Creating a new window is as simple as this: 1var newWindow:NativeWindow [...]
Create your first Apollo Window
Monday, March 19th, 2007TweetCreating a window is very simple with Apollo. This is a very basic example of how to create a new window that contains a custom component. Simply create a new Apollo project within FlexBuilder and paste the following as the main file. Create a component named MyComponent.mxml and paste the code at the bottom of [...]
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