How-To Videos

Convert a SWF into a Desktop Application - mProjector Basics (4:49)

This video shows how easy it is to create a desktop application from your Flash project. The video demostrates the following concepts:

• How to convert a SWF into a desktop application.
• How to use mProjector commands to position your application window on the screen.
• How mProjector integrates seemlessly into the Flash, providing code completion and Help.

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Make a Desktop Application using Flex and mProjector (3:38)

This video shows how easy it is to create a desktop application using Flex, ActionScript 3.0, and mProjector. The video demostrates the following concepts:

• How to add mProjector classes and methods to your Flex project.
• How use the mProjector methods mWindow.setTitle() and mWindow.setPosition().
• How to compile and run your project as a desktop application.

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mWindow Class and mProjector ActionScript Basics (2:27)

This video shows how easy it is to add desktop functionality to your Flash application, specifically how to control a window using mProjector's mWindow ActionScript Class. This sample is done in ActionScript 2.0 but the same commands work in AS3.

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Make a Desktop Application Using Flash, AS3, and mProjector - mProjector Basics Cont'd (7:13)

This video shows how easy it is to create a desktop application using Flash, ActionScript 3.0 and mProjector. The video demonstrates the following concepts:

• Standard Windows vs. Flash-shaped Windows with transparency.
• How to create a custom drag bar and quit button.
• How to center the window on a monitor using an mProjector ActionScript 3.0 mWindow class method.
• Getting a path to the Desktop folder
• Setting the window title.

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Flash Integration and Work Flow (4:35)

This video explains how mProjector integrates into Flash to make it easy to write, test and make changes to your desktop applications. The video demostrates the following concepts:

• Installing the mProjector mxp (Flash Extension). This extension adds mProjector classes, help, search, code completion, and compile and run commands to the Flash IDE.
• Compiling and testing your application from inside Flash.
• Adding mProjector ActionScript to your Flash SWF.
• mProjector project settings including the variety of mProjector desktop window types.

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Window Fun (3:40)

This video demonstrates a multiple window applicaton created using Flash AS2 and mProjector. The video demostrates the following concepts:

• How to give your application a custom icon.
• How to include additional files to your mProjector application.
• mProjector Publish Settings
• The sample code is available on our mProjector Samples page.

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Create and Control Windows... On-The-Fly (7:36)

This video demonstates how to create and control windows, dynamically, in your ActionScript. The video demostrates the following concepts:

• How to create a window, dynamically.
• How to change the size, position, alpha channel, etc of a window from another window.
• How to send messages between windows or call user defined functions in each window, synchronously.
• This sample includes ActionScript 2.0 coding and demonstrates the mProjector's mApplication.createWindow(), mWindow.setSize(), mWindow,setPosition() functions.

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