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Building a common desktop application on AIR in Dreamweaver CS3


Jonathan Snook

Jonathan Snook

Snook.ca

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Starting off
  3. Building and styling the user interface
  4. Adding interactivity
  5. Specifying the AIR application and installer settings
  6. Debugging and packaging the application
Created:
14 April 2008
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Adobe AIR
Dreamweaver

The Adobe AIR extension for Dreamweaver CS3 makes it easy to build, package, and preview Adobe AIR applications with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. You can use your existing web and Ajax development skills to build AIR applications that interact with the desktop in ways that web applications can not.

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a simple To Do List application with custom chrome. It also explain the functionality behind the application. The application is based on a single HTML page and JavaScript. Because it is also built on AIR, it can save and open to do lists using the local file system. It will use XML both internally to remember data and to be saved to the local file system as to do lists that can be shared.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe AIR extension for Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe AIR

Sample files:

Prerequisite knowledge

Basic knowledge of Dreamweaver, HTML, and Ajax development. If you haven't used the Adobe AIR extension for Dreamweaver CS3 yet, you may also want to refer to Scott Fegette's demo of how to set up and configure Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 to build, deploy, and preview Adobe AIR applications.

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About the author

Jonathan Snook is a freelance developer from Ottawa, Canada. With over a decade of experience on the web, Jonathan continues to design and build web and desktop applications for clients around the world. He's also author of Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries and co-author of The Art & Science of CSS. Jonathan contributes to magazines online and off such as UK's .net magazine and Digital Web Magazine. He also contributes regularly to his own blog at Snook.ca.