Turn Your Flash program Into A Desktop Application Using Yahoo! Widget Engine

Yahoo Flash blog today posted an interesting article telling about how you can turn your flash applications into Desktop applications using Yahoo! widget engine.



With Yahoo Widgets SDK, you can develop killer desktop applications and now with release 4.5 of SDK, you can take advantage of Flash, Flash is known for its cool interface. Now these applications can be built in Flash.

Yahoo developer center has posted an article in detail with example telling how to create cool desktop applications by easily wrapping them with the widget engine.

Flickr Widget	Aquarium Widget

Article demonstrates how to embed Flash applications in the Widget engine using the following tools:

Badge Kit - an XML-based framework for rapid development of small interactive Flash applications.

ASTRA Components - a collection of well-documented, skinnable components that can be used in Actionscript 3 applications.

Reference:-
Building Flash Desktop Apps with Yahoo Widgets!

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