AIR Example - Native Drag-n-Drop and Clipboard Integration
AIR provides some great API’s for integrating with other applications. Via the NativeDragManager and Clipboard classes, you can easily export your data in a multitude of formats, including PNG and CSV. Recently I had an project that utilized these features, and I figured it would be good to share the techniques with the community.
In particular this example, framed as a basic stock chart application, demonstrates the following features:
- Native drag-and-drop with PNG images and custom image proxies.
- Copy to Clipboard / Export with both PNG and CSV data formats - Right-click on the chart to get your options
- Example code for customizing the HLOCChart class look-and-feel
These features were factored into ‘behavior’ classes so that they can (fairly) easily be applied to your own AIR apps.
| This application requires the following be installed:Please click on each link in the order above to complete the installation process. |
Source is available by right-clicking and selecting ‘view-source’ in the application from anywhere but the chart.