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Chapter 52: Working with AIR native<br />

windows<br />

Adobe AIR 1.0 and later<br />

You use the classes provided by the Adobe® AIR® native window API to create and manage desktop windows.<br />

Basics of native windows in AIR<br />

Adobe AIR 1.0 and later<br />

For quick explanations and code examples of working with native windows in AIR, see the following quick start articles<br />

on the Adobe Developer Connection:<br />

Creating a transpar<strong>en</strong>t window application (Flex)<br />

Interacting with a window (Flex)<br />

Customizing the look and feel of a native window (Flex)<br />

Launching windows (Flex)<br />

Creating toast-style windows (Flex)<br />

Controlling the display order of windows (Flex)<br />

Creating resizable, non-rectangular windows (Flex)<br />

Interacting with a window (Flash)<br />

Customizing the look and feel of a native window (Flash)<br />

Creating toast-style windows (Flash)<br />

Controlling the display order of windows (Flash)<br />

Creating resizable, non-rectangular windows (Flash)<br />

AIR provides an easy-to-use, cross-platform window API for creating native operating system windows using Flash®,<br />

Flex, and HTML programming techniques.<br />

With AIR, you have a wide latitude in developing the appearance of your application. The windows you create can look<br />

like a standard desktop application, matching Apple style wh<strong>en</strong> run on the Mac, conforming to Microsoft conv<strong>en</strong>tions<br />

wh<strong>en</strong> run on Windows, and harmonizing with the window manager on Linux—all without including a line of<br />

platform-specific code. Or you can use the skinnable, ext<strong>en</strong>sible chrome provided by the Flex framework to establish<br />

your own style no matter where your application is run. You can ev<strong>en</strong> draw your own window chrome with vector and<br />

bitmap artwork with full support for transpar<strong>en</strong>cy and alpha bl<strong>en</strong>ding against the desktop. Tired of rectangular<br />

windows? Draw a round one.<br />

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