My first Apollo Application: zoomBrowser

I had a little play this morning with Apollo and Flex, and I apologize to all you Flexers out there, I haven’t as yet had the time to REALLY get into Flex, so all of this is really obvious to you all.

Anyway, I made a little browser implementation, you can load a URL and browse as you normally would, but if you have bad eyesight (as I do at 6 am) its nice to be able to zoom into the web page, hence zoomBrowser!

The code for this is really simple:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<![CDATA[ private function loadURL():void\{ htmlBrowser.location = locationBar.text; } ]]>

</code>

There are two functions, loadURL and zoomBrowser. LoadURL is called either when you press enter in the mx:TextInput field or when you click on the “Go” button. The mx:HTML item is simply bound to the slider and it resizes with the values.

Amazing that you can build such a complicated app (if you think about it) with so few lines of code!

Download and unzip and give it a whirl (you need to download the Apollo runtime from Adobe Labs)