Adobe Air: WindowedApplication

Question

I am a beginner. I have developed a desktop application using Adobe Air Flash Builder. I am using a WindowedApplication Container that serves as the entry point for the Flex Application.

The problem: I have a button whose event handler redirects me to a new window using the the addElement and NavigatorContent property. Here's the handler:

        public function startstudy_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            var dTracker:Study = new Study();
            this.addElement(dTracker);
        }

Here's the NavigatorContent code:

        <s:NavigatorContent width="100%" height="100%" label="PRACTICE" icon="@Embed(source='assets/image.png')" toolTip="PRACTICE" id="navprac">

What's happening is that when I am redirected to the new window, the dimensions of the new window are not the same as those of the WindowedApplication. Infact, no matter whether I resize the WindowedApplication before clicking the button, the new window has the same exact dimensions everytime. I need the new window to be of the same size as the calling (WindowedApplication) window.

Is there a way around this? If not, then how can I make all the windows to be the same size from the start,that is, disable their resizing and set all windows to the size of the screen.

you need to show some code, what type is "this" and show some code about Study class, you can try setting minWidth=maxWidth=width=myvalue; same for height — simion314
"this" is the current window (also the entry window for the application) which calls the "Study" window using the addElement function. The code is pretty big so I don't know which snippet should I share. Please can you specify which code (functionality) do you want? Thanks — Tarun Dugar

CyanAngel CyanAngel · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-03T11:08:22

Judging by your comments above, Study is of type Window in which case, when you invoke new Study() you are creating a new window. This window has a completely different set of height and width the the first window created when the WindowedApplication started.

To get around this you could explicitly state these properties:

var dTracker:Study = new Study();
dTracker.height = this.height;
dTracker.width = this.width;
dTracker.x = this.x;
dTracker.y = this.y;

Or you could change Study from being a window to something like Group or Panel, this would then add it to the current window rather than creating a new one

Adobe Air: WindowedApplication

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