Native Window on Top

Is there a way to make a Native Window always stay on top? I
dont want it to neccessarily be completley modal where you cant
interact with the underlying program, I just want it to always be
on top.
Is this possible?
Thanks.

Set the window alwaysInFront property to true.

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Incorrect functionality of Embedded tag in html page, displaying object on top of all layers of Adobe air application native window

Title
Incorrect functionality of embed tag in html loader for adobe air development
Description
Problem Description: If we had loaded youtube.com video url in a view stack and navigate to other index of stack or away from we UI screen within the same native window video or embeded tag of flash player or any other embed object will be displayed on top of all screens layer in same position of where the object should be placed in side of html loader only.
Steps to Reproduce:
1) go to http://get.straweb.com/StraWebBrowser/StraWebBrowser.air download and install
2) load 2 tabs and in the 3 tab load video player of youtube.com which will a sample video
before completing the load of 3 tab which trying to load video from youtube.com, navigate to other tabs 1 or 2 in few second once the flash player of youtube.com video player is load it will display in the current tab or UI screen.
3) Try navigating to other tabs than youtube.com loaded tab you see the flash player is on top it stable.
4) navigate to 3 tab and try to navigate to other tab you can observe that so how it will not show that flash player and only visible in that 3 tab which is fine.
Actual Result: Embedded tag of html page displaying on top of all layers of Adobe air application native window
Expected Result: Embedded tag of html page should only displayed in side htmlloader
This you can replicate in any adobe air plugin update and on any Hardware and Environment.
Applicable to all sdk versions of adobe air.

Adobe Bugbase: Bug 3823839 Incorrect functionality of embed tag in html loader for adobe air development

FLV Playback and Seekbar on different native windows in one Air application

Hello Everyone. I'm trying to make a simple video playback AIR application that utilizes the initial native window to house a transport control with a seekbar on it. Once the application launches, it creates a second (new) window on my second screen and places a FLVPlayback instance on that new window. Everything works just like it want it to except for one thing. When the seekbar and FLVplayback instance are not located on the same window stage, the seekbar handle sticks to the mouse when trying to scrub through the video.
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import flash.display.*;
import flash.desktop.*;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.video.MetadataEvent;
import flash.geom.*;
import flash.ui.Mouse;
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var screen1:Screen = Screen.screens[0];
var screen2:Screen = Screen.screens[1];
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if (Screen.screens.length > 1){
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Resize a native window content mantain the aspect ratio..

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Second on my main class I explicitly set the main SWF to a height and width:
e.g.
package yada {
[SWF(width=xxx,height=xxx)]
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If I didn't set that in the AS3 code explicitly (the XML didn't matter at all) the SWF would be the original size. Now your content should be at the size you specify in your window and allow resize.
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Hi Guys,
Im using flash cs3 as my development environment. what i was trying to do is creating a small login application using Air. I must say im still a newbie to flash air. as far as my login system concern i have managed following tasks,
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best regards,
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