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NativeWindowInitOptions – configure your AIR NativeWindow

August 6th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Tutorials

In a previous post I listed some code to create and activate a NativeWindow in an Actionscript AIR project without really explaining what was going on behind the scenes. In this post, I’ll explain a little more about the NativeWindowInitOptions class, and how you can control the appearance and behaviour of the NativeWindow that you create.

The code I used in the previous post was this:

var windowOptions:NativeWindowInitOptions = new NativeWindowInitOptions();
var mainWindow:NativeWindow = new NativeWindow(windowOptions);

Fairly obviously, the NativeWindow constructor accepts an instance of NativeWindowInitOptions as its first parameter. In the previous example, I’m not doing anything fancy with the NativeWindowInitOptions instance that I create, I just create a new instance of the class and pass it to the NativeWindow constructor. As a result, all the various properties will have their default values, and the NativeWindow will be totally default. How terribly dull. Here’s a list of properties of NativeWindowInitOptions that you can play with to control how the NativeWindow will look and behave when it’s created….

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