Here’s a tip for how to centre (center for you yanks) your main Adobe AIR application window at runtime. It’s not as obvious as this.x = numX, this.y = numY for some reason. All this does is ends up moving you application container out of the NativeWindow masked view. Not what I was after.
You can set the initial position of your main application window in your app descriptor xml (although I can’t see the point of this as most developers are going to want it set dynamically based on the dimensions of the user’s screen).
So here’s the code that get’s called once the windowComplete handler is called:
{
var screenBounds:Rectangle = Screen.mainScreen.visibleBounds;
var w:int = width;
var h:int = height;
var x:int = screenBounds.x + ((screenBounds.width-w)/2);
var y:int = screenBounds.y + ((screenBounds.height-h)/2);
stage.nativeWindow.x = x;
stage.nativeWindow.y = y;
visible = true;
}
In the main application I’m building I’m using the PureMVC Flex Framework and I’m not actually running this code snippet until my config xml and my styles swf has completed load into the main application so my code retains full control of when the application displays and where it displays 🙂