Flash/Flex/AIR don¹t stop running when a window or browser loose focus... It might appear this way if the only thing that drives your application refresh is user input. That is to say, that when the application looses focus there is nothing to cause the application to redraw / update.
You have quite a few options to keep things brewing: you could use window-to-window communication via JavaScript, the Flash LocalConnection object, cookies, a SharedObject, etc. You could even use a timer and a global mouse/keyboard handler to establish inactivity that could drive UI refresh as needed. If you are running a server product like BlazeDS, WebORB, etc... Interaction in a single window could drive updates just about anywhere you want. Cheers, Rick Winscot On 6/4/09 9:50 AM, "grimmwerks" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I've got an application I created for a chain of stores, that when > losing focus for a moment - ie when the admin flips to another > interface -- upon return/getting focus, it draws it's entire interface > again and basically takes a few seconds of receiving event dispatches > to get into shape again. > > I'm not sure how best to handle this as it seems it's something > happening at the core of a flex app; but is there a way to 'force' > flex/flash to keep getting updates while even in the background? > > > >>
