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Apollo Tip: Never See the Flex Loader
by Roger Braunstein on March 22nd, 2007

Here’s a really simple trick you can use to prevent the Flex loader from showing when you start up your application. All you have to do is hide the window, and show it when the Application is ready.

In MyApplication-app.xml:
<rootContent systemChrome="standard" transparent="false" visible="false">[SWF reference is generated]</rootContent>

This sets your application manifest to make the root window invisible. Then, you just make it visible when everything’s ready:

In MyApplication.mxml:
<mx:MyApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" creationComplete="window.visible = true"> …

Easy peasy!

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 2:25 pm and is filed under AIR, Flex, Programming. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Apollo Tip: Never See the Flex Loader”

  1. Peter Says:
    March 22nd, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    nice tip, you could also set usePreloader=”false” in ApolloApplication tag or create a custom preloader where you launch a splash page.

  2. uyang Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 3:16 am

    thanks.but when i test .always display:no windows property.why?

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