Building Flash Desktop Apps with Yahoo Widgets!

Posted in "Flash, General" at 3:34 pm on April 28, 2008 by Tripp Bridges | 4 comments

Yahoo! Widgets

You may already know that you can develop cool desktop applications with the Yahoo Widgets SDK. With the 4.5 release of the SDK, these applications can now be built in Flash. To help you get started, I wrote an article (complete with examples) that demonstrates how you can leverage some of our Flash tools to rapidly develop Flash Desktop Applications with Yahoo! Widgets.

This article explains how you can use the Yahoo! Widget engine to turn your Flash program into a desktop application. Additionally, you will see examples built with The Badge Kit and the ASTRA Component Library. After reading, you should be fully prepared to build your own Widgets. Go give it a read and start building Flash Widgets today.

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  1. [...] already know that you can create some cool desktop applications with Yahoo! Widgets SDK. Well, the Yahoo! Flash Blog recently announced that these applications can now be built in [...]

    Pingback by Yahoo! Publisher Network » Blog Archive » Widgets, Checklists and Podcasts — May 2, 2008 #

  2. Hello,
    This is sort of unrelated to your post, I’m having trouble finding much Flash-related info to do with the Y!WE anywhere on the web so thought I’d try here. I’ve created a Flash 9 app to be embedded in a widget and am having trouble with focus management in the sense that I cannot get an I-Beam cursor in my text fields once my SWF has been embedded in the widget.
    Any help would be much appreciated.
    p.s. I’ve already tried the forums and manual

    Comment by Stefan — May 22, 2008 #

  3. I am an XP user. Your demo files have a .widget extension which is not recognized by my OS. Are these for Vista or Macs only?

    Comment by Flash Components — July 10, 2008 #

  4. I also got XP and any problems. It´s just great, your article and the simple way to build great widgets, regarding to your own demands without any compomises. thanks!

    Comment by Billigflug — September 10, 2008 #

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