Lab 5 : Web App to Desktop App using Flex 3

I'm almost finished with lab 5. On the whole it's been pretty fun, aside from some of the frustration from minute details that take an hour apiece to hammer out. I had developed most of my application as a web app before the specs came out. Fortunately I was using Flex, so let me show you how easy it was to convert it from a web app to a desktop app.

As a web app, the main page was enclosed in elements like these:

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" backgroundColor="#2C3552" xmlns:local="*">
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<mx:Application>


To deploy it as a desktop app, I had to change it to:


<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" backgroundColor="#2C3552" xmlns:local="*">
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<mx:WindowedApplication>


and then recompile. And that's it. And this may appeal to those of you with high design sensibilities-- it looks the same on the desktop as it does on the Web. Incidentally, on the web it looks identical on every browser/platform combination (any platform that has a Flash player, that is).