This year’s trainees project was a desktop store build in AIR.  This is their story.

Showcase: Desktop Store

This showcase is an internship project where the possibilities of Adobe Flex and AIR are demonstrated. The concept of this showcase is a desktop application which connects to a server and can then be used to shop offline afterwards, from your own familiar desktop environment.

When you start the application, you are presented with an empty shopping cart, a navigation which is build from the available shopping windows and of course the shopping windows themselves. You have the option to load a previous shopping session, or you can start filling a new shopping cart with products from the shopping windows. “Work Space” is an interactive shopping window. In this shopping window are products which you can drag to your shopping cart. You can also see the specific details of the products by clicking on them. There’s also the option to see similar products in that category. If you wish, you can save a .pdf file with details of a product to your computer by dragging a product from the detail screen to your desktop.

When you are done shopping, you get to see an overview of your order. If the order is confirmed, you have the option to save your order details as a .pdf file to your computer. From here you can go to the user area, where you can change your delivery details, you can see statistics of your shopping behavior and you can also see an overview of your previous placed orders. This overview can be saved to your desktop as a .cvs file, which can later be opened in a program like MS Excel.

Developed by Dennis Roefs & Gunter Van Steen (KHM – Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen)

Check out their application at: www.ida-mediafoundry.be/showcase