Monthly Archives: July 2009

AIR-based Mortgage Calculator Desktop Widget (with ILOG Gauges)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: July 28, 2009

Here is a simple example of using a chromeless, transparent window in AIR to build a widget-type application. I know: yet another mortgage application… but to make things more interesting, I used the cool ILOG Elixir gauges to display and enter the principal, monthly payment, rate, and term. No rocket science here, but a nice [...]

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Building a Flex Application with the Parsley Framework

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: July 16, 2009

After my recent explorations of “Swiz”, and “Spring ActionScript” (1,2,3), I decided to take the new version of the Parsley framework for a test drive, and build the Parsley version of inSync: the simple Contact Management application I often use to try out and demonstrate different features and techniques in Flex and Adobe AIR. Parsley is [...]