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Grrrgregg8tr - An AIR “microbrowser” for HelloTxt

June 16, 2008 5:00 pm

One of my internet friends said that she’d like a simple desktop app which would allow her to post to multiple sites like Twitter, Plurk, etc. A little later she plurked about how HelloTxt basically does what she wants except that it doesn’t have a desktop app.

Adobe AIR to the rescue.

HelloTxt has a mobile client interface written in HTML so making a simple cross-platform desktop app was as simple as firing up Flex Builder, adding panel and HTML components, and specifying HelloTxt’s mobile client interface’s URL as the HTML component’s “location.” I then twiddled around with a little bit of styling and config. stuff but that wasn’t necessary to make it work.

<mx:windowedapplication title="Grrrgregg8r" height="550" width="300"
  layout="absolute" xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
  <mx:panel headerheight="10" bottom="0" right="0" top="0" left="0"
    layout="absolute">
    <mx:html bottom="0" top="0" left="0" right="0"
      location="http://m.hellotxt.com/" />
  </mx:panel>
  </mx:windowedapplication>

A cross-platform desktop application in five lines of MXML. Pretty dang nifty if you ask me.