Thursday, March 6, 2008

Adobe AIR Native Window Animation Example

This is the first of many examples that I will be posting here over the next couple of days which were built while riding on the On AIR Bus Tour. This example was built using Flash CS3 and requires Grant Skinner’s AIRPanel extension in order to compile the application. The example creates a new native window which animates around the main window in a carousel motion. Note the excellent performance of animating native windows in AIR.

You will notice that the code is setup to accept additional native windows so that you can create a carousel of multiple native windows. The only problem is that z-indexing of native windows is not supported in the beta 1 of AIR. It will be rolled out soon though. Click on the image below to get the AIR file and the source FLA.