Baking desktop applications using As3 and Zinc.

Zinc 3.0 is an alternative to turn Flash/Flex applications to full portable desktop applications.

As3 and Zinc 3 is the standard to develop desktop applications (often called widget) in the advertisement industry: it is easy and cost effective.

It is possible to style the window (I had transparent mode).
There is a very interesting library that extends the capabilities of flash.

The Mdm Zinc forum is very helpful.

Bug using Pyamf with Google App Engine templates

It seems that Pyamf conflicts with the Google App Engine template library.
You may have this error loading a template:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'defaulttags'

Perhaps Pyamf includes an older version of Django library .
To workaround write the imports in this order:

from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from pyamf.remoting.gateway.google import WebAppGateway

It seems odd but the problem disappears.