Hi, I won't comment on what the best approach is but, maybe you can look at Christian Cantrell's Growl implementation for AIR:
article: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2007/10/make_text_fade.html code: http://code.google.com/p/as3notificationlib/ Sunil --- In [email protected], Arpit Mathur <mathur.ar...@...> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I had a question regarding an AIR utility class that I am trying to finish. > The class is pretty simple, it is basically an AIR implementation of the Mac > Growl UI (notification windows that pop open on the right edge of the > display). Most AIR applications seem to use some implementation of the > functionality so I decided to write a generic one that I could open source > and let everyone use it. > > My question is pretty simple. Like growl, I wanted to bring out a number of > rectangular notification windows that fade out after some time. There are 3 > ways I can see this being accomplished: > > 1) Open new NativeWindow for each notification > 2) Open one transparent nativeWindow add children to it calculate its size > based on the number of children being added (notifications), and then place > the window appropriately on the screen's edge > 3) Open one transparent nativeWindow to the size of the screen (resolution), > and add notifications to its right edge. > > Is there one implementation over another that may have better performance ? > #2 seems it may since it creates one native window of the exact size it > needs, but its the most work. > > Any thoughts ? >
