Buzzy And Me

Now that Stockastica is fully ready, I have been working on porting the Stockastica Flex application to AIR.

Porting any Flex application to AIR involves changing the <Application> tags to <WindowedApplication> and adding an XML file. It is painfully simple. I did spend some time adding features that are specific to a desktop application.

We also spent some time modifying the CSS properties to give it a customized look( though I am pretty sure I managed to ruin even the plain vanilla look ). It felt weird knowing that I was modifying the presentation layer of a desktop application using CSS. But it works flawlessly and I was really impressed, especially after I had gone through the harrowing experience of styling and skinning the Silverlight app. Using XAML resources is not as intuitive as using CSS.

Here is a screencast of Version 2.0 of the App I finally prepared after porting it to AIR. I am sorry about the large resolution. Will post another one on a lower resolution soon. Hope you like what you see. Please leave your comments below. I would love to hear any suggestions.

Buzzy