Apollo for Adobe Flex developers : pocket guide / Mike Chambers, Robert L. Dixon, and Jeff Swartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Mike.

Contributor:

Dixon, Robert L.

Swartz, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flex (Computer file).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Internet programming.

Web site development--Computer programs.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Written by members of the Apollo product team, this is the official guide to the Alpha release of Adobe Apollo, the new cross platform desktop runtime from Adobe Labs. Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide explains how to build and deploy Flash-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop using Adobe's Flex framework. This book describes concisely how Apollo works, and offers numerous examples for those who want to start building RIAs for the desktop right away. Why put RIAs on the desktop? They're already supposed to offer the responsivenes

Contents:

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide; What This Book Covers; What Alpha Means; Audience for This Book; Who This Book Is For; Who This Book Is Not For; How This Book Is Organized; How to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; License and Code Examples; Support and More Information; Online Apollo Resources; Apollo Developer FAQ; Apollo Developer Center; Apollo API Reference; Apollo Documentation; Apollo Forum; Apollo coders mailing list; Mike Chambers weblog; MXNA Apollo Smart Category; Flex Developer Center; OnFlex.org; Flex coders mailing list; Universal Desktop Weblog

How to Contact UsAbout the Authors; Robert L. Dixon; Jeff Swartz; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to Apollo; 1.2. Problems with Delivering Applications via the Browser; 1.2.2. Distance from the Desktop; 1.2.3. Primarily Online Experience; 1.2.4. Lowest Common Denominator; 1.3. Introducing the Apollo Runtime; 1.4. Primary Apollo Technologies; 1.4.1.2. HTML; 1.4.1.2.2. Open project; 1.4.1.2.3. Proven technology that web developers know; 1.4.1.2.4. Minimum effect on Apollo runtime size; 1.4.1.2.5. Proven ability to run on mobile devices; 1.4.2. Primary Document Technology; 1.4.2.2. HTML

1.4.3. What Does An Apollo Application Contain?1.4.4. Apollo Functionality; 1.4.4.2. Apollo Desktop Integration; 1.4.5. Apollo Development Toolset; 1.4.6. Is Apollo the End of Web Applications in the Browser?; 2. Getting Started with Apollo Development; 2.1.2. Mac OS Installation; 2.2. What You Need in Order to Develop Apollo Applications; 2.2.2. Downloading and Setting Up the Apollo SDK; 2.2.2.2. Installation and Configuration on Windows; 2.3. Building a Sample Apollo Application; 2.3.2. Building and Debugging the Hello World Application Using the Apollo SDK

2.3.3. Packaging and Distributing the Hello World Application2.3.3.2. Packaging the application using ADT; 2.3.3.3. Distributing and installing your application; 2.4. Next Steps; 3. Using HTML Within Flex-Based Apollo Applications; 3.2. Using the Flex HTML Component; 3.2.2. Loading HTML from a String; 3.2.3. Knowing When the Location Has Changed; 3.2.4. Manipulating the HTML DOM; 3.2.5. Applying CSS Styles to the HTML Component; 3.2.6. Manipulating the HTML Component as a Sprite; 3.2.7. Accessing the Underlying HTMLControl object; 3.3. Using the HTMLControl Class

3.3.2. Loading a String Value Containing HTML Text3.3.3. Manipulating the HTML DOM; 3.3.4. Knowing When the Content Bounds Change; 3.4. Script Bridging: Communicating Between ActionScript and JavaScript; 3.4.2. Listening for JavaScript Events from ActionScript; 3.4.3. Calling JavaScript Functions from ActionScript; 3.4.4. Calling ActionScript Functions from JavaScript; 4. Using the File System API; 4.2. Accessing Files and Directories; 4.2.2. The url and nativePath Properties of a File Object; 4.2.3. URI Schemes; 4.2.3.2. app-resource; 4.2.3.3. file

4.3. Asynchronous and Synchronous Versions of Methods

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596514365

0596514360

9780596551643

0596551649

OCLC:

609840802