Launching an AIR app from another (when offline)?

I have a pair of AIR applications that are meant to work
together as part of an application suite. One feature is that a
user should be able to click a button in APP_1 and launch APP_2 (if
installed). To do this I created a "LaunchButton.swf" that loads
"air.swf". This works GREAT when the user is online and "air.swf"
is able to be loaded from "
http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/browserapi/air.swf".
I tried to copy "air.swf" locally and use that instance but I am
guessing that it doesn't work due to security restrictions.
If there are any AIR engineers reading this (Oliver?) please
let me know if there is a solution to "Launching an AIR app from
another (when offline)?"
Thanks!

I think theoretically it shouldn't work, and doesn't by the
response you give. Remember a functional work around isn't always a
fix. What you've essentially done is loaded the air.swf into a
sandbox bridge, bridging it between a web sandbox and an
application sandbox, therefore you're able to call its methods
without security errors. However, if the air.swf loads in another
swf, maybe a helper swf, you won't be able to access any methods in
that swf, neither will the air.swf. To my understanding, it's not
grandfathered into the sandbox bridge, but retains its web sandbox.
Before going crazy about the bad news I may have just given,
wait until Ted returns to give you a response. I could be way off
par here :) Good luck!

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