Our app will be a sort of backoffice in which we will be dealing with
the filesystem extensively. It will be managing mediafiles and dig into
its xml metatags. From the start on, this project is completely AS3
based. So I 'd better test the mProjector thoroughly beeing in beta for AS3.
I haven't had too much experience on building full scale apps in flash
but this will be an adventurous challenge. Hope to get the squares out
of the wheels soon and start rollin' ;-)) Thx!
Cheers,
Bart
Rich Shupe schreef:
Yes, the Flash projector will stay in fullscreen mode when changing
focus--at least when Command-Tabbing on the Mac. I assume it will behave
similarly on Windows.
I didn't mean to preclude that out of the box. I just never use the built-in
projectors because they're a hair shy of worthless for desktop apps. About
the only thing they can do is go fullscreen. I think they can still launch
an app if you provide the exact path to it, but nothing more.
That's also why I didn't include AIR, which might be another option for you.
Adobe was very specific that they were not creating a desktop APP tool, but
rather a desktop extension for RIAs. Hence looking to third-party apps.
[I have no desire to get into a 'my tool is better than yours' discussion
here. AIR is great and those are Adobe's (paraphrased) words.]
It all depends on what your app needs to do. If you were previously
contemplating delivering via the browser, you may not need any of the
functionality that makes mProjector so great.
AS version and cross-platform delivery are also issues. AIR can't do
anything special with AS2 projects (AIR is AS3 but you can load AS2 SWFs if
you don't need to communicate with them), mProjector is in beta for AS3,
other tools can do AS3 but can't do cross-platform as well, etc.
Good luck,
Rich
http://www.LearningActionScript3.com
On 4/29/08 11:03 AM, "Bart Goormans" wrote:
Thanks for the tip Rich.
I had a look at the mProjector. This third-party projector will probably
solve several questions in the project we're doing. Only hope the
project manager will allow for third-party pluggs. We are developing a
desktop app. Not a browser based, so it would certainly be a valid option.
Have to check with people from mProjector in detail (not found in
docu/examples)
Would this not be something the flashplayer should support by itself, a
fixed (regardless of having the focus or not) fullscreen mode?
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