A real native Alert for Flex / Air

Ids — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:26:04 +0000

When you’re working on an Air project in Flex, and you want an alert to popup, you have a problem. Air doesn’t come with an ‘aired’ version of the Flex Alert. The flex Alert is fine, as long as you work with a single windowed application. As soon as you have more than one window, the Alert of Flex becomes more or less useless. Since you’ve got more than 1 window, Flex doesn’t know which window to make the parent window, so a model alert isn’t possible anymore.
I’ve taken the code from the mx.Alert and rewritten it to an AirAlert. It works exactly as the normal alert, only now it creates a window instead of a Panel / Titlewindow.

Usage: AirAlert.show(‘Test Alert!’, ‘Test Alert!’);
(The same as a normal alert )

Notice: I didn’t copy the Alert.YES / Alert.NO stuff, so you have to use those from the Alert class.
Notice2: You’ll find no license or whatsoever, just use it as you like.

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AIR + Chuck Norris = Chuck Norris Facts Desktop app

Ids — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:39:41 +0000

Today, I fiddled a bit with Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) in Flash CS3, and look here, I’ve created the best application ever! (Every application featuring Chuck Norris is the best application ever).

It serves random facts and roundhouse kicks you in the face! Check it out:

[kml_flashembed fversion="9.0.0" movie="http://www.flexperiments.nl/air/badge/AIRInstallBadge.swf" targetclass="flashmovie" useexpressinstall="true" publishmethod="static" width="215" height="180" fvars="airversion=1.1;appname=Chuck Norris Facts;appurl=http://www.flexperiments.nl/air/chucknorris/chucknorris.air;appid=nl.flexperiments.ChuckNorris;pubid=flexperiments;appversion=1.0.0;imageurl=http://www.flexperiments.nl/air/chucknorris/img.jpg"]

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A real native Alert for Flex / Air

AIR + Chuck Norris = Chuck Norris Facts Desktop app