I have built an authoring tool to create small stories which can be displayed in a story book format. I would like to publish each story as a stand-alone application (by simply pressing a button) and be able to send it via email. Does anybody has any idea how to create a stand-alone application in Flex by only clicking on a button?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
Does anybody has any idea how to create a stand-alone application in
Flex by only clicking on a button?
It depends on the format you want the output to be in. Assuming that you want a "Flash Platform" output; then I would have that button ping a remote service which can then use the Flex command line compiler to take your code and output a SWF or an AIR File. With AIR you can even use captive runtime to create a native installer for Windows or Mac [or iOS or Android]. [You'll need to be on a Windows unit to create an .exe or a mac unit to create a dmg).
Just about every server side language has some type of PDF generation facility, so you could also use your application server and data from your app to create a PDF which I suspect will be much more palatable when you're sending it around via email.
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So i've created an application in visual studio for windows phone using a web view and I'm just wondering if its possible to send a message to the user that pops up as an alert when they are outside of the app? Every week I want the user to receive a notification from the application. After some searching around I wasn't able to find much information on this that is specific to web views so I'm not sure if this is possible using javascript?
Thanks for the help
What you want to do is create scheduled toast notification. You need to use WinJS or C# to do the job. You can call functions outside of the webview from javascript using ScriptNotified event
I have a Air/Flex desktop application and I'm trying to create a component within the app that can view files on the web server is is already connected to. It just needs to access one particular folder that will contain PDFs, Images & Word documents. I also want the ability to click on the files and having them open in their default desktop applications.
Is this possible and how would I go about doing this?
It's possible but not with your Flex/AIR app alone. It cannot view files/directories on server by itself but it can communicate with your server via webservices, AMF, or any other back end based service. Typically the back end reads the folder and send this information to your app. Your app can open those files in corresponding app but only if those files are available on disk so your app will have to download them prior to opening them.
Every Application has different needs but I myself usually save anything to a desktop or you can use the App storage container as well. As I use only the desktop I download what is needed OR been asked for, and the visitor has the choice of keeping it or if not needed it gets automatically deleted! this way you can use whatever PDFs, Word, Images etc. use read and write (re-write) as well as creating PDFs on the fly with Images, text etc, and that way a visitor also can print directly at his or her own leisure. regards aktell
I am very much impressed by the way this app was build , https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visual-history/emnpecigdjglcgfabfnmlphhgfdifaan
I wonder if SAP Lumira was involved in this application, for the live visualitations to work fine. but i am not sure of how it was developed as an app as it can only export as png files and the data can only be from flat files and hana database. Any help to analyse the nature of this application is appreciated.
I think your question is not stated correctly: it's like asking "how to build visualizations for the web" (in other words, it's too broad and it's not specific to Chrome apps). I think what you want is a way to analyze the source of an app. What you can always do for that is:
After installing the app you're interested in, visit chrome://extensions.
Turn on the Developer mode (a check box in the upper-right corner).
Find the app in the list and note down its app ID.
Go to Chrome settings directory, e.g. ~/.config/google-chrome for Linux - the location will depend on the OS and the Chrome channel that you're using.
Find the app's installation directory, which will look something like <Chrome settings directory from #4>/Profile N/Extensions/<app ID>/<app version>.
You will see the entire app's source there.
Specifically for this app, you can see in the sources that it uses something called JavaScript Graph framework (see /canvas.js) together with D3.js (see /protovis-3.2/).
Short version: I have a WebBrowser control hosted in a Windows Phone 8 app. How can I store values from javascript so that they persist across the user closing and reopening my app?
Long version:
I'm developing a Windows Phone 8 application that has a single WebBrowser control hosted in a single MainPage.xaml page that lives for the entire life of my app. I created the app with the "Windows Phone HTML5 App" project type when creating the project in Visual Studio 2012. 99% of my application is hosted in web pages (on the internet, not stored on the phone) that I direct the WebBrowser to go to when the app starts up. In my application's web pages I'm trying to persist data across pages and across sessions. For example, once the user logs in once then I want to store that on the phone so the next time they start the app they don't have to log in again.
Cookies and HTML5 Local Storage (via window.localStorage.setItem and getItem) both work fine for sharing data across pages in the app while the app is running and even if you switch out of the app (via the Windows phone "hard button") and go back in. But if the user exits the app by pressing the hard "back" button then the next time the app is started all localStorage and cookies seem to be gone.
Is this the expected behavior? I guess I'm not sure where WebBrowser would store the data (Isolated Storage? Or maybe in the same place it's stored if going to the web site with Internet Explorer?). In any case, if there's no "fix" for this, can anyone the best way for me to provide my own storage mechanism so that I can let my javascript code persist values across instances of my app running? I'm happy to use the app's Isolated Storage if only I knew of a way to get and retrieve values from it using javascript. Thank you.
I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour or not.
To get at the Isolated Storage you will need to use JS/.NET interop.
if you want to trigger the persistent storage from JS:
Use window.external.notify in JS, generating a JSON string (for instance) to pass along to the .NET side. That could be written to IsolatedStorage without the .NET having to parse the data. You could use IsolatedStorage.AppSettings or a full file depending on the size of the data.
Alternately you could trigger the process from .NET:
Call WebBrowser.InvokeScript to call a JS function which returns the same JSON string representing your data.
The .NET side could detect and restore this data on startup and use WebBrowser.InvokeScript to pass the JSON string back into the WebBrowser via a JS function.
You'd of course have to deal with error cases (attempting to restore bad/corrupt JSON).
Also, if you trigger this from .NET in response to the App.Closing event you need to watch out that you don't take too long writing data.
The faster you run the better, but this definitely needs to be done within 10 seconds or the OS will kill your app.
See MSDN docs for WebBrowser.InvokeScript() and ScriptNotify registration to window.external.notify.
Silverlight is made so that you can run it in a browser. That is cool. So, if I want to pass variables from the command line so that it can be used to populate fields in the silverlight app, how is that done?
You know, like you can with javascript (I think) or php (I am pretty sure).
Silverlight has Init parameters which is a key/value map that you can fill in your Html page and get the values in Application_Startup event. However this does not apply to Silverlight apps running in OOTB (out of the browser) mode.
This MSDN page shows a trick if you run your app both in and out of browser, so that you can save the InitParams values when running in the browser and save it back to Isolated Storage for when you run the application in OOTB mode.