AIR Window Explorer: I Owe Daniel Rinehart A Beer

Daniel R., if you are listening, I know that you don't know me, but I owe you a beer.

This afternoon as I was working on my 360Flex presentation and example code I became very, very frustrated with NativeWindow and Window and all the various similarities and differences in the options for creating and manipulating this much-used feature in AIR. So I thought, "Let's Google this bugger and see if there is a chart out there that can help."

No charts, but I was intrigued by a link to Daniel's site: AIR Window Explorer. You've seen the Flex Component Explorer and the Flex Style Explorer, well, Daniel's app is in the same vein. Decide on your Window options, create and open the window. Click on the "Show Code" button, and you will see the code used to create the Window. Nice! This application isn't perfect, mind you, but it does give you a a good idea of what you can do with the Window and NativeWindow classes in AIR.

So, for saving me an hour (and a lot of frustration) today, I owe Daniel R. a beer. Not a crappy beer. A really great beer.

Hopefully Daniel will be attending 360Flex in August so I can repay him properly.

 

 

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Daniel R.'s Gravatar Thanks for the offer, but alas I won't be making it to 360 in August. I'm glad someone else found the application useful and if you do have any suggestions for improvements I'd be happy to incorporate them.
# Posted By Daniel R. | 7/29/08 8:29 AM
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# Posted By Olympus | 10/23/08 5:00 PM