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Comment on Using the Adobe AIR Install Badge by Bala

Bala — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:02:13 +0000

i figured out my problem

for anyone else struggling with this: http://forums.adobe.com/message/110535#110535

You can no longer call installApplication() or launchApplication() outside the context of a user-initiated event such as a button click. This change was made to improve the security of the browser API.

Comment on Using the Adobe AIR Install Badge by Bala

Bala — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:45:23 +0000

Hey jason, thanks for the suggestion. i do in deed have that in my descriptor file.

I was able to narrow my problem, I think it is a scope issue, maybe you can help ( I am a .NET developer, not so much AS3)

This code snippet is from the AIRBadge.as provided in the AIR SDK

This code works:
private var _appURL: String;
private var _appName: String;
private var _airVersion: String;

private var appID:String = “com.dbala.me.appid”;
private var pubID:String = “”; //

private var launch_args:Array = ["launchFromBrowser"];


private function onButtonClicked(e:Event):void {

	_air.installApplication( _appURL, _airVersion );
}

This code does NOT work:


private function onButtonClicked(e:Event):void {

	_air.getApplicationVersion(appID, pubID, versionDetectCallback);
}
private function versionDetectCallback(version:String):void

{

	if (version == null)

	{

		//this message displays

		root.statusMessage.htmlText = "blablabla installing";
		//this function DOES NOT execute

		_air.installApplication( _appURL, _airVersion );
		//this message displays

		root.statusMessage.htmlText = "blablabla after installing";
	}

	else

	{

		//this message displays

		root.statusMessage.htmlText = "Launching Application..";
		//this function DOES NOT execute

		_air.launchApplication(appID, pubID, launch_args);

	}

}

Comment on Using the Adobe AIR Install Badge by jason

jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:37:26 +0000

@Bala,

My first suggestion would be to ensure that your AIR application has the ‘allowBrowserInvocation’ set to true in your application descriptor file. By default it is false, and any calls to ‘launchApplication()’ will simply fail.

Jason

Comment on Using the Adobe AIR Install Badge by Bala

Bala — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:39:35 +0000

Hello Jason, I am having trouble trying to auto launch an installed air app from the browser, would you happen to know how to do it? I can detect successfully if the app is installed, but when I call “launchApplication(appID, pubID, arguments)”
nothing happens. I’ve been battling this for a few days now, any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated

Comment on Adobe Air Version Checker by jason

jason — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:54 +0000

@Chris Nice find. I hadn’t seen that article, thanks for the link. Jason.

Comment on Adobe Air Version Checker by Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:13:37 +0000

Thanks Jason. I found this useful little Adobe knowledgebase article, which gives you a way to check the version of AIR on Mac and Linus systems:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407625.html

I can’t find anything similar for Windows.

Comment on Adobe Air Version Checker by jason

jason — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:17:38 +0000

Very cool. I remember now running into the Product Manager a while back while looking into AIR install badges, but never took the time to investigate further. Thanks for the comment.

Comment on Adobe Air Version Checker by DL1t

DL1t — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:21:42 +0000

if you don’t mind using undocumented features, you can simply use this from Flash Player, without making AIR app:

import adobe.utils.ProductManager;
var mgr:ProductManager = new ProductManager(“airappinstaller”);
if(mgr.installed){
trace(mgr.installedVersion);
}

Comment on Adobe Air Version Checker by jason

jason — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:36:57 +0000

I’m glad someone else found it usefull. Thanks for the mention

Comment on Adobe Air Version Checker by Adrian Parr

Adrian Parr — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:04:53 +0000

I hope you don’t mind, I’ve re-blogged about this on my site …

http://www.adrianparr.com/?p=122