Monthly Archives: April 2007

Logging to a File in Apollo

Posted on April 10, 2007 by

Since Apollo apps will be run as standalone desktop applications, logging to trace output or a LocalConnection won’t really be useful once the app is installed on the end-user’s machine. It would be great to log (a responsible amount) (if … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, Programming | 1 Comment

Apollo Native Windows Part 3

Posted on April 8, 2007 by

As promised I’m back with more goodies! This time I’ve extended the simple window manager to support document windows as well as application windows. I also included a class that binds to your MenuBar in an empty menu and keeps … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex | 4 Comments

Apollo Native Windows Part 2

Posted on April 7, 2007 by

Previously, I was trying to manage multiple native windows in an Apollo app. I found that I couldn’t add Flex components to a new window, and was dismayed. But Danny Dura came to the rescue with a sweet workaround. See … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flex | 2 Comments

Can’t-Wait Apollo Features

Posted on April 6, 2007 by

I was just working on a good way to flexibly manage my application’s document windows in Apollo, and when I started trying to throw real windows up, I ran into a wall. The windowing docs clearly showed an example of … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex | 5 Comments

(pseudo) Abstract Classes in AS3!

Posted on April 5, 2007 by

(Since we’re MXNA’d now, I wanted to bring this post and maybe a couple of others back up to the top by reposting them. This was written back in October) I was looking at this blog post by Tink about … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, AS3, Flash, Tutorial | 7 Comments