Flex Browser Tools

The Flex Browser Tools are a small Flex/Flash component library which helps with browser-integration of Flex applications. The classes and components originated from my work on Wivi and should be available to other projects now. Since their original development for Wivi, several improvements and bug fixes have been made and I plan on continuing this.

Any feedback, bug reports, feature requests or even code contributions of other useful components are greatly appreciated!

Overview

Currently, the library contains the following classes/components:

HTMLArea
A Flex UI component which allows displaying of arbitraty HTML in an application, either by specifying a URL or HTML fragments. Because the options for displaying HTML provided by Flex are very limited, this component uses the rendering capabilities of the web-browser in which the application is running. In addtion to displaying HTML contents it also captures some events from the document which can then be processed in the application.
Cookie
A simple class which provides access to the cookies of the embedding HTML document. It is possible to read and modify existing cookies as well as to create new cookies. Cookies created by this class behave exactly like cookies created otherwise and will also be sent to the server in later requests.
ExternalParameter
A similar class like Cookie, providing access to query parameters of the embedding HTML document, which are read-only of course.

A more thorough description and short examples will follow. Until then, the API documentation and the simple example application packaged in the downloadable archive file has to suffice.

Download

The Flex Browser Tools are published under the “GNU Lesser General Public License” (GNU LGPL) version 3. The full license text can be found in the downloadable archive.

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