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App Idea? RUNR!

Toying around with the idea of making an AIR app in Flash, since so far all my playing with AIR has involved HTML apps (and I’d really like to try PixelBender out). I spat this out, using my new favourite typeface: Neutraface.

RUNR - first run

The idea is to track the distance and time of the runs you take so you can see progress or stagnation at a glance.

RUNR - main screen

Come  to think of it, it might be a good idea to add “types” of runs. Yeah! Treadmill/Hill/Flat/Fartlek/Track-Sprint/Cross-Country.

Hmm …

Also: desktop background is a lovely photo by this fellow.

Resizable HTML AIR Applications

Far easier than I thought it was:

$('#resize').mousedown( function(){
    window.nativeWindow.startResize('BOTTOM_RIGHT');
    // or: BOTTOM, BOTTOM_LEFT, BOTTOM_RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, TOP_LEFT, TOP_RIGHT, NONE
});

You can retrieve the width of the application using the width property of nativeWindow (so:

window.nativeWindow.width

). It might be a good idea to prevent your app from getting too small and using scrollbars.

From a development standpoint, with this in mind I guess the idea would be to set the default width of the app in the application descriptor file and then use percentage-widths while styling to keep the app flexible. Ta-da!