AIR+Flex: Align to bottom right when application opens

Question

I have a AIR app that I need to be in the bottom right corner
of the screen when it opens.
My simple workaround is that I set the nativeWindow x and y
to values off the screen and then using a timer I set it to the
correct values after 1 second (if I do it immediately, the screen
size is not calculated correctly???)
quote:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns="*"
layout="absolute" horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
verticalScrollPolicy="off"
showFlexChrome="false" width="200" height="140" alpha="1"
applicationComplete="{init()}">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.display.Screen;
private var timer:Timer;
private var s:Screen;
private function init() : void {
// This doesn't work???
s = Screen.mainScreen;
nativeWindow.x = s.visibleBounds.width - nativeWindow.width
- 5;
nativeWindow.y = s.visibleBounds.height -
nativeWindow.height - 5;
nativeWindow.x = -1000;
nativeWindow.y = -1000;
timer = new Timer(1000, 1);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, show);
timer.start();
private function show( e:TimerEvent ) : void {
timer.stop();
s = Screen.mainScreen;
nativeWindow.x = s.visibleBounds.width - nativeWindow.width
- 5;
nativeWindow.y = s.visibleBounds.height -
nativeWindow.height - 5;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Panel width="200" height="140">
<mx:Label text="Some text" />
</mx:Panel>
</mx:WindowedApplication>
There must be a better way to do this? (even to align the app
to the middle of the screen)
I have tried to set visible to false in the -app.xml as well,
which does not work?
The big problem is that nativeWindow x and y keeps on
resetting to 0 if I have my entire application code.
Are there any other things in Flex with AIR that makes the
application reset it's coordinates if I have set it in the main
MXML file???

Answer 1

newWindow is something you've defined already in Flash.
It doesn't apply with Flex as I am in WindowedApplication
already.
I just found that I can tween the X and Y (using Tweener)
but... the X and Y resets if I Tween the width and height
(don't worry, I don't want to do this anyway)
Anyways, so I must be setting the width and height somewhere?
For Flex: Why does the X and Y reset when I have a MXML
Window inside my main app?
I've edited my example in my previous post, it shows that the
X and Y is set to 0, 0.
How do I prevent this, here's the example:
Main application MXML:
quote:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns="*"
layout="absolute" horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
verticalScrollPolicy="off"
showFlexChrome="false" width="200" height="140" alpha="1"
applicationComplete="{init()}">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.display.Screen;
private var timer:Timer;
private var s:Screen;
private function init() : void {
// This doesn't work???
s = Screen.mainScreen;
nativeWindow.x = s.visibleBounds.width - nativeWindow.width
- 5;
nativeWindow.y = s.visibleBounds.height -
nativeWindow.height - 5;
nativeWindow.x = -1000;
nativeWindow.y = -1000;
timer = new Timer(1000, 1);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, show);
timer.start();
private function show( e:TimerEvent ) : void {
timer.stop();
s = Screen.mainScreen;
nativeWindow.x = s.visibleBounds.width - nativeWindow.width
- 5;
nativeWindow.y = s.visibleBounds.height -
nativeWindow.height - 5;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Panel width="200" height="140">
<mx:Label text="Some text" />
</mx:Panel>
<MainWindow />
</mx:WindowedApplication>
MainWindow MXML:
quote:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Window xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
creationComplete="init()"
width="150" height="100" horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
verticalScrollPolicy="off"
showFlexChrome="false" layout="absolute"
xmlns:desktop="flash.desktop.*" xmlns:display="flash.display.*"
>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private function init() : void {
trace("MainWindow: init");
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Panel width="100%" height="100%"
horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off"
horizontalAlign="center" layout="vertical" title="TITLE"
>
<mx:TabNavigator width="100%" height="100%"
horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" >
<mx:Canvas label="TAB1" >
<mx:VBox width="100" height="100" backgroundColor="red"
/>
</mx:Canvas>
<mx:Canvas label="TAB2" >
<mx:VBox width="100" height="100" backgroundColor="green"
/>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:TabNavigator>
</mx:Panel>
</mx:Window>