Tutorials – Apollo (Rich Tretola)

These tutorials will help you get started with Apollo.

Your first Apollo Application

• Creating your first Apollo Application with Flex Builder – This tutorial will take you through building your first Apollo application using Flex Builder.

• Deploy an AIR file with Flex Builder – This tutorial takes the application created in “Creating your first Apollo Application with Flex Builder” and deploys it as an AIR file.

• Editing the Apollo Descriptor File – This tutorial will demonstrate how to edit the descriptor file and add icons to the installer.

Interacting with the File System

• Write your first file to the file system using Apollo – This tutorial shows you a very basic example of how to write a file to the file system.

• FileSystem Components – The FileSystem components are a new set of components specific to Apollo which allow for easy access for browsing the file system. The example below defines the 4 files system components and points them to the systems desktop.

• File and FileStream within Apollo – This is a more advanced example of how to interact with the file system. This example demonstrates how to read and write to the local file system.

• SnapIt – I have had requests on how to take snap shot and save it to disk.  So here is a vary basic example that takes a picture of itself and saves it to disk using the file name provided.

Using the Window API

• Create your first Apollo Window – Creating a window with Apollo is very simple, this tutorial will demonstrate how to create a new window.

• Windowing with Apollo – The Windowing sample will demonstrate this by allowing you to set the preferences of the new window by setting NativeWindow and NativeWindowInitOptions properties,
  and then manage the windows by tracking them within a custom Array.

The Apollo HTML Control

• HTML Control – The mx:HTML control is something that is unique to Apollo and is very easy to integrate into your application. This example will demonstrate how to use the location and htmlText properties of the HTML control.

Bridging between ActionScript and JavaScript

• Apollo ActionScript / JavaScript Bridge – Bridging between JavaScript and ActionScript is very easy with Apollo. The following tutorial will show how to call JavaScript functions from ActionScript and vice-versa.

Updating your Application

• Apollo Self Updating Applications- One of the beauties of Apollo is the ability of the application to update itself whenever necessary. This example shows one method for doing this.

Connection Status

• Online/Offline- Here is a nice little example of testing for online and offline within Apollo. It is very basic. This example shows a way to test connection status.