AIR application breaks session in Safari

Hello everybody,
I have found strange behaviour of WebKit (I suppose). Following problem I observe under MacOS:
Open Safari and establish connection to a site using login/password (let say: USER1) to keep the session (eg. Delicious.com)
Open AIR and establish connection with the same site but with different login/password (let say: USER2)
Back to the Safari - the session of USER1 is broken by session of USER2!
I suspect WebKit (which is used both in the Safari and AIR) shares the session in the same way like tabs in the same browser. What shall I set to avoid the problem. I want to have treated session established by AIR application as a separate one, without interfering with Safari... Can I instantiane "another" WebKit for my AIR application? Have you any idea?
Thanks in Advance!

Hi,
I tried the same thing on Windows with Google Chrome(Uses Webkit) with Delicious.com in browser i logged in with my gmail account and in AIR App I logged in using yahoo ID. I can still use my chrome session.
tomorrow I will check on Mac OS and get back to you.
meanwhile can check if this is happening with all the sites using Sessions?
Also, can you check if you can reproduce the issue with Chrome on Mac? (Chrome-AIR and Chrome-Safari)
Thanks,
Saumitra Bhave
Software Engineer
AIR-Linux

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                showBusyCursor="true" id="imagefile" width="{mainwidth}" maxHeight="{mainheight}" minHeight="{mainheight}" maxWidth="{mainwidth}" minWidth="{mainwidth}" height="{mainheight}" hideEffect="{fadein}" x="0" y="0" maintainAspectRatio="false"/>
            <mx:Text text="{images.getItemAt(currentIndex).title}" styleName="title" color="#ffffff" x="0" y="30"/>
     </mx:Panel>
    
    
    <mx:Panel borderStyle="none"
           borderAlpha="0"
           cornerRadius= "0"
           borderThickness="0"
           headerHeight= "0" top="0" left="0"
           backgroundAlpha= "0" verticalAlign="middle"
           verticalScrollPolicy="off"
           horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
           x="0"
           >
         <mx:VideoDisplay borderStyle="none" borderThickness="0" visible="false" id="videoContainer"
              maintainAspectRatio="false"
              />
    </mx:Panel>
    
     
     </mx:VBox>
    <mx:HTTPService id="service" url="data.xml" result="serviceHandler(event)"/>
</mx:WindowedApplication>

Adobe AIR application crash on start in iOS devices

I have Adobe AIR application that uses Starling and DragonBones.
We use IntelliJ IDE.
We can run the application on the device without problem when running from the IDE.
We build an ad-hoc distribution and put it on a device using TestFlight.
When we run the application it show the splash-screen image and after that either go into white blank screen or crashes.
In the XCode Organizer crash report I can't find helpful information.
How can I debug this problem?

Any chance of Testing with Flash Professional ? If so than connect your device and in Flash Professional CC go to Debug->Debug Movie-> On Device Via Usb -> Select your device.
It will start a debug session as soon as you start your app/game and than you can debug whats going wrong on the device, setup your trace statements or breakpoints and see in output panel what actually the problem is.
I hope it will help or some community guru may assist you or particularly you can post your problem in starling forum too, may be someone will help you there ...
PS: In debug session mode performance will be low so don't worry about that. This mode is just for debugging and testing purposes.
Thanks,
Muhammad Faisal Zaheer,
Sr. Software Engineer, Team Lead, Cubix Labs

Need better alternative to Adobe AIR Application Installer

In order to build a double-clickable desktop application,
apparently one has to use the Adobe AIR Application Installer. This
is bad for a few reasons:
It's not scriptable.
It hard-wires the name of the swf file to load into the
generated binary.
For Mac OS X, the "swf launcher" should be a simple "launcher
stub". The name of the swf file to load should be read from the
Info.plist file. If it did this, then the stub could be the same
for all applications. For Windows, there could be a simple XML
config file in the same directory as the app that serves the same
purpose as Info.plist on the Mac.
I hope Adobe addresses this soon.

quote:
Originally posted by:
mattkane
How about creating your native launcher app with the whole
AIR client in the Resources folder. When you launch your app it
launches your server executable, then after its done its stuff it
launches the AIR app.
You could make the launcher app itself headless so you don't
get two dock icons.
This doesn't address the need to have a non-GUI alternative to
the Air Application Installer so builds can be completely
automated.
It definitely breaks the drag-and-drop of a file onto the
application's icon.
I never said I have 2 Dock icons. (I already solved that
problem by making the server "faceless" by setting LSUIElement to 1
in the server's Info.plist.)
Why do I want completely automated builds? Aside from the
ease of just being able to type "ant" and press Return, any real
development group has things such that a "build machine"
automatically rebuilds the app (on all platforms) after ever
developer check-in to check for accidental build breakage. Those
builds also become available to QA for them to test.
Ever time some new development tool comes out where the
authors provide a GUI tool (presumably because they think GUI =
easy), I have to wonder, "What were they thinking?" If the authors
are themselves developers, how can they not see how crippling not
providing an all-command-line tool-chain is? Don't all non-trivial
development groups do automated builds as described above? The only
answer I can think of is that some
PHB
somewhere thought it would be a "neat idea" to have an
"easy-to-use" GUI application (because that sells to other PHBs).
As to drag-and-drop: presumably, the swf launcher that gets
generated properly handles drag-and-drop of files onto the
application's icon and Does The Right Thing when it happens (where
"right thing" usually means simply opening the document dropped
onto the icon). Now, since my launcher gets launched instead, that
breaks drag-and-drop unless I implement that functionality myself.
The way I've implemented my launcher is such that, after the
fork(), it's the parent process that exec's itself into the client
thus keeping the original process ID. The hope is that Launch
Services on the Mac, when handling and drag-and-drop event, will
send said event to the original process -- which is now the client
-- and everything Just Works. I have yet to get around to testing
this (I'm busy with other things at the moment); but, if it turns
out that my hope isn't fulfilled, well then I can fall back to
keeping my launcher running to get and forward the OpenDoc
AppleEvents from my launcher to the swf launcher.
So, anyway, back to my original plea: Adobe,
please just give us a command-line replacement for the Air
Application Installer (preferably just a launcher stub that reads
Info.plist). Thanks.

Installing a LARGE AIR application

Hello,
I am attempting to create an installer for Windows that installs the AIR runtime, our application, and all the content required such that any user can log in and use the application. Our application is an educational tool for autistic children, and will be installed in lab environments in schools.
Our AIR application by itself is not large - about 5MB. However, it relies upon about 600MB of external assets. These include various forms of media: images, audio clips, SWFs etc. If I try to bundle all of this into a single AIR file using FlashBuilder 4, FlashBuilder dies due to lack of memory to the JVM. I have tried to increase memory to the JVM, but even given the maximum it still does not work. I then attempted to package and sign the AIR file using the command line tools. That appears to work, however that operation results in a bloated AIR file that is over 1GB in size, almost double the size of the content packaged into it. If I attempt to use the sidecar installer provided by Adobe to install this AIR file the installer dies. Further investigation shows that others have hit this same size limitation with AIR files, but there is no resolution in site to this problem.
Since it seemed impossible to package the entire application into a single AIR file my next attempt was to keep the content separate from the AIR application. I have experimented with Installshield, but have found no way to chain together the sidecar installer MSI with another MSI that installs the content to the same location. I could install the AIR application, and then let the application itself finish the installation by copying the content to app-storage://, but then the application is only usable by the user who installed it. In a lab environment in a school this doesn't work, because typically the person who is installing the application is an administrator, not the end user. app-storage:// resides under a user's directory, not in a shared location. The application is unable to copy files to the app:// location due to the security model of AIR.
I know that I can do a silent install from the command line using the sidecar installer, but I haven't found a way to chain this together with another MSI that installs the content. It could be that I am too limited by what Installshield Express offers. I am now attempting to use NSIS.
Any advice anyone may have on how to do this is very appreciated. Surely others have needed to install large media rich AIR applications on Windows. AIR is a great platform for us in many respects, but I must be able to create an easy seamless install process for end users. Our product will be going into use over the next 6 months by over 1000 users, and that number will grow quickly. I would be willing to pay for a support incident from Adobe if that is warranted.
Thanks
Kevin MacDonald

After much gnashing of teeth I I came up with what appears to be a workable solution. I am posting my solution here for the benefit of others. I was able to use NSIS to create an installer that first installs my AIR application via Adobe silent install feature (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/air_runtime_redist.pdf), and then proceeds to install the content in the same folder. The end result is an application that should work for all users and is a reasonably seamless installation experience . The only downside is that you wind up with a total of 3 new items in the Programs & Features control panel: one for Adobe AIR, one for the NSIS installer, and one for the AIR application. The uninstaller only removes the NSIS installer, but that zaps all the content off the disk so it's not terrible. Another little gotcha is that the install folder in this script needs to match the folder in the descriptor file of the AIR application, because everything needs to wind up in the same folder.
This also assumes you have permission from Adobe to redistribute the AIR runtime.
My NSIS script is below.
; Script generated by the HM NIS Edit Script Wizard.
; HM NIS Edit Wizard helper defines
!define PRODUCT_NAME "My Product Install Kit"
!define PRODUCT_VERSION "2.0"
!define PRODUCT_PUBLISHER "mycompany"
!define PRODUCT_WEB_SITE "http://www.mycompany.com"
!define PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe"
!define PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\${PRODUCT_NAME}"
!define PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY "HKLM"
; MUI 1.67 compatible ------
!include "MUI.nsh"
; MUI Settings
!define MUI_ABORTWARNING
!define MUI_ICON "..\..\..\..\..\__staging\InstallerResources\TT.ico"
!define MUI_UNICON "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Graphics\Icons\modern-uninstall.ico"
; Welcome page
; License page
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE "..\..\..\..\..\__staging\InstallerResources\License.txt"
; Directory page
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY
; Instfiles page
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
; Finish page
; NOTE: This provides an option to run the AIR application. This depends upon the Client.air file creating this executable. It doesn't get created by this installer.
;       Also, The directory 'My Product 2.0' shown anywhere in this script must match the installation directory created by Client.air or nothing will be in the right spot.
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN "$INSTDIR\My Product 2.0\My Product 2.0.exe"
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH
; Uninstaller pages
!insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_INSTFILES
; Language files
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
; MUI end ------
Name "${PRODUCT_NAME} ${PRODUCT_VERSION}"
OutFile "Setup.exe"
InstallDir "$PROGRAMFILES\mycompany"
InstallDirRegKey HKLM "${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}" ""
ShowInstDetails show
ShowUnInstDetails show
var removePreviousInstall
Section "MainSection" SEC01
StrCpy $removePreviousInstall "A previously installed version of My Product 2.0 has been detected at $INSTDIR\My Product 2.0 that must be un-installed before proceeding. Please go to Control Panel --> Programs and Features and fully un-install any mycompany components. Also, make sure that this folder is deleted. Then, you may attempt to re-install. The installer will quit now."
SetOutPath "$APPDATA\mycompanyAIRInstaller"
SetOverwrite try
File /r "..\..\..\..\..\__staging\mycompanyAIRInstaller\*.*"
ReadRegStr $0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe AIR" "DisplayVersion"
IfErrors installAIRRuntime
Goto installAIRFile
installAIRRuntime:
MessageBox MB_OK "NOTE: The Adobe AIR Runtime will now be installed. Please accept the AIR license agreement in the following dialog and allow the installation to complete."
ExecWait '"$APPDATA\mycompanyAIRInstaller\AdobeAIRInstaller.exe"' $0
${If} $0 != '0'
    MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP 'Adobe AIR Installer returned error code ("$0"). Adobe AIR must be installed for this installation to complete.'
    Quit
${EndIf}
installAIRFile:
;Check for existence of a previous installation
IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\My Product 2.0" ExistingInstallDetected NoExistingInstallDetected
ExistingInstallDetected:
     MessageBox MB_OK $removePreviousInstall
     Quit
NoExistingInstallDetected:
; MessageBox MB_OK "Installing Adobe AIR Runtime and Application via silent installation"
ExecWait '"$APPDATA\mycompanyAIRInstaller\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe" -silent -eulaAccepted -location "$INSTDIR" -desktopShortcut -programMenu "$APPDATA\mycompanyAIRInstaller\Client.air"' $0
${Switch} $0
${Case} '0'
    ${Break}
${Case} '1'
    MessageBox MB_OK 'A restart is required to complete this installation'
    ${Break}
${Case} '3'
    MessageBox MB_OK 'The Adobe AIR runtime was not found. Please try fulling un-installing any intalled components and attempt to re-install.'
    ${Break}
${Case} '4'
    MessageBox MB_OK 'Failed to load the Adobe AIR runtime. Please try fulling un-installing any intalled components and attempt to re-install.'
    ${Break}
${Case} '7'
${Case} '9'
    MessageBox MB_OK $removePreviousInstall
    Quit
    ${Break}
${Default}
    MessageBox MB_OK 'Unknown error ("$0") installing the Adobe AIR runtime. Please try fully un-installing any installed components and attempt to re-install.'
    ${Break}
${EndSwitch}
SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\My Product 2.0\assets\abagale"
File /r "..\..\..\..\..\__staging\Client_abagale\*.*"
SectionEnd
Section -AdditionalIcons
SetOutPath $INSTDIR
; WriteIniStr "$INSTDIR\${PRODUCT_NAME}.url" "InternetShortcut" "URL" "${PRODUCT_WEB_SITE}"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\mycompany\Uninstall My Product 2.0.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Uninstall My Product 2.0.exe"
SectionEnd
Section -Post
WriteUninstaller "$INSTDIR\Uninstall My Product 2.0.exe"
WriteRegStr HKLM "${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}" "" "$APPDATA\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "DisplayName" "$(^Name)"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "UninstallString" "$INSTDIR\uninst.exe"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "DisplayIcon" "$APPDATA\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "DisplayVersion" "${PRODUCT_VERSION}"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "URLInfoAbout" "${PRODUCT_WEB_SITE}"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "Publisher" "${PRODUCT_PUBLISHER}"
SectionEnd
Function un.onUninstSuccess
HideWindow
MessageBox MB_ICONINFORMATION|MB_OK "My Product 2.0 Install Kit was successfully removed from your computer."
FunctionEnd
Function un.onInit
MessageBox MB_ICONQUESTION|MB_YESNO|MB_DEFBUTTON2 "Are you sure you want to completely remove My Product 2.0?" IDYES +2
Abort
FunctionEnd
Section Uninstall
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\My Product 2.0\*.*"
RMDir /r "$APPDATA\mycompanyAIRInstaller\*.*"
;Deletes the link put there by the AIR app installer.
Delete "$SMPROGRAMS\mycompany\My Product 2.0.lnk"
DeleteRegKey ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}"
DeleteRegKey HKLM "${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}"
SetAutoClose true
SectionEnd

Commenting functionality not available when I open a pdf in air application

commenting functionality not available when I open a pdf in
air application. Adobe documentation says that is expected with
adobe air 1.0 but I still have the same problem even if I use the
latest air runtime

Back up all data.
In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Copy the line of text below into the box that opens, and press return:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
From the folder that opens, remove any items that have the letters “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari, and test.
I've seen an unconfirmed report that the "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can also interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you might need to remove it as well, if applicable.
If you still have the issue, repeat with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari again.

Font Anti-Aliasing Issues in HTML/Ajax based Air Applications

It seems that the font-renderer in HTML/Ajax based Air Applications is using some kind of sub-pixel font renderer that is overriding and vastly inferior to the standard Windows ClearType, or any Apple based option as well. This problem is particularly noticable with light text on a dark background, and made worse the smaller the text is. I've put together an example image explaining exactly what I mean at: http://regator.com/fontRendering.png (it's a large image 1126 x 1500 px)
My example shows two fonts at four different sizes rendered in an HTML Air App vs the default Windows Cleartype, as well as using Safari to show the Font style anti-aliasing. In all cases the HTML Air App rendering is far more difficult to read, and in many cases severely distorts the color of the text in a way that other subpixel algorithms do not. As far as I can find after literally hours of googling and searching there's no way to override this in HTML based applications. Is there any solution to this, or a planned fix for the renderer? Other than this rendering issue, the HTML interface for creating Air apps is absolutely brilliant, this is just making my finished product look significantly less polished than it otherwise would if the text were more readable.
Thanks.

Dear caturner81, dear Adobe,
is there a solution to this problem? I'd really love to fix the aliasing thing in Air/HTML!

Protect a desktop air application

HI
I currently use Zinc to wrap my swf and then add softlocker copy protection to that
it all works ok.
I would prefer to use an air application but need to know if is there is a way
to prevent users just copying it onto other computers.
cheers
KBN

The method I use will allow you encrpyt most of your source code using a key that is unique to every computer.
The initial download of my software is a simple air app that does not contain the actual program. It is more like a shell that first retreaves a list of the clients mac addresses and the user entered activation code that is created at time of purchase. This is sent to server and logged. The activation code is saved to a file client side. At the server the mac address and activation key are used to create the encryption key. The bulk of the program code is then encrypted using that key, then divided into parts and sent back to the client.
The client puts the parts back together and saves the encrypted file.
At runtime the shell finds the mac address list and the activation key, then using same method as server gets the encryption key and decrypts the program file. Run simple check to make sure it loaded. For encyption i found an aes method that works in php and javascript.
Next I use this code to load the program
var loader = air.HTMLLoader.createRootWindow(true, options, true, windowBounds);
loader.cacheResponse=false;
loader.placeLoadStringContentInApplicationSandbox=true;
loader.loadString(page);
This method makes it very difficult to copy to another computer although since I wrote it i know there are some weeknesses in the security but to make it harder i obv. the shell code. It at least keeps most from pirating.
However there are issues with this that I have found.
First i was using networkInfo to get the list of mac address but this failed in a test windows XP computer. When the wireless was off it did not return the MAC. I was not able to recreate this in VISTA or 7. Not sure if it could happen. Was not tested on a mac computer. To fix this (at least for windows). I wrote a simple bat file that gets the MAC list, then converted it to an exe which is included. This does force you to create native installers. call the exe with this
var nativeProcessStartupInfo = new air.NativeProcessStartupInfo();
var file = air.File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("findmac.exe");
nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
process = new air.NativeProcess();
process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);
process.addEventListener(air.ProgressEvent.STANDARD_OUTPUT_DATA, onOutputData);
process.addEventListener(air.ProgressEvent.STANDARD_ERROR_DATA, onErrorData);
process.addEventListener(air.NativeProcessExitEvent.EXIT, onExit);
process.addEventListener(air.IOErrorEvent.STANDARD_OUTPUT_IO_ERROR, onIOError);
process.addEventListener(air.IOErrorEvent.STANDARD_ERROR_IO_ERROR, onIOError);
put the list together in the onOutputData event using array.push
and continue on the onExit event
using the findmac.exe will return the same info every time (that i know of)
beware thought that using the native install will break the standard application update process so you will have to write your own. my updates are processed the same way as above.
This is contents of the .bat file to get the mac list
@Echo off
SETLOCAL
SET MAC=
SET Media=Connected
FOR /F "Tokens=1-2 Delims=:" %%a in ('ipconfig /all^| FIND "Physical Address"') do @echo %%b
ENDLOCAL
using this method makes it simple to implement at try before you by method. at runtime if no activation code get try me version from server instead of full version.

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