AIR application licence management

Hello everyone,
Is it possible that make a AIR application can only run on one specific computer? Say, eh~ you can not copy the program files to another computer and use it finely~~
Thanks a lot.

Not as a feature of AIR. You could code up your own system to approve usage.

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Open files with AIR application

Hy, I made an AIR application that manages video files. Is there any way that when I try to open a video file to be opened with my application and play it ? Not just open the application and browse for the video.
Thanks.

bump!
really? noone knows the answer?

After closing the AIR application, it still runs in the Task Manager

Hi,
I am very new to AIR application. I have made a product demo
application in CS3 using AS2 and just for the sake of testing the
AIR, I published an AIR installer of that application.
Every thing works as it should be but I am facing one
problem, when I close the application using the close button. It
disappears from the desktop but when I checked the TaskManager...It
still running there. And using large CPU resource (around 50%).
Does any one know the reason behind it?....I also tried to
installing other AIR application (made by other users) but that
application is closing correctly..

You might set the flag:
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.autoExit
to false?
Otherwise your app. should exit.
-ted

Deployment of an Adobe AIR application in an enterprise environment

Dear Team members,
first of all my apologies for posting this thread in more than one forum (see Installations Issues) but the argument is very important to us and I don't know where discuss it.
I would like to post a question to you regarding deployment doubts that we are trying to address.
My company is working on the new version of our primary application previously built as a J2EE application with some reporting functions with Flex, and we want to use AIR in order to leverage its possibilities:
Seamless integration with existing application functionalities (implemented as standard JEE web application pages) thanks to the integrated HTML capabilities
Improved integration of the user interface with the desktop
Native processes to provide additional functionalities
Our application is targeted to pharmaceutical industry, subject to FDA regulations, and it affects more than 5000 users for each customer, so we have some specific requirements affecting the deployment and distribution of the software:
Allow to run multiple versions of the software on the same client machine (to support test and acceptance activities in addition to the production environment)
Minimize the effort of the initial setup on each client
Manage the version upgrades without manual activities on each client
Keep the test/acceptance and production environments strictly aligned to improve effectiveness of formal validation (ideally, an application once validated should be transported in production without any source code modification, recompilation or repackaging)
The current browser-based strategy is perfectly fit to these requirements, and in the shift towards a desktop-based strategy we need to continue satisfying them as much as possible. We evaluated the standard distribution strategy of Adobe AIR applications, and noticed several attention points in this scenario.
The first issue we encountered is the back-end services endpoint discovery problem. Simply hardcoding a server URL in the packaged application could be a viable solution for public internet-accessible applications, but we need to support multiple customers in their intranet, and each one typically requires multiple environments for the application (acceptance, production, etc.). Maintaining dozens of different packages of the AIR application to support all these customer environments clearly is not the solution. Neither we want to force thousands of different users to enter and maintain the correct server location in their local preferences.
So, we thought to use a badge hosted in the back-end application to run the local AIR application: using the underlying API, we could activate the application specifying also the network location of the back-end services. We could also rely on the badge to install the application (and the AIR runtime if necessary)… however, application packaged as native installers cannot be installed, upgraded, or launched by the badge API (and we need to package ours as native to use native processes).
We also noticed that multiple versions of an AIR application cannot be installed side-by-side in a client machine, and that the installation and upgrade of the application can be performed only when the local user has administrative rights on the machine (using standard or native packages), forcing us to rely on external software distribution systems in some customer scenarios (introducing additional complexities in the release cycle).
At this point, in our opinion the standard deployment strategies of Adobe AIR applications are unfit for enterprise environments. In the enterprise world, many of the applications have migrated to a completely browser-based solution, while others enhanced their client layer to comply with the requirements, for example installing only a thin portion of the client code and allowing to connect to multiple server versions/environments with it (e.g. the SAP GUI universal client). Without smarter deployment and distribution tools, AIR applications currently are a step back compared to web applications in terms of manageability.
So, we are trying to develop a solution to address these problems, with some concepts similar to JStart: install on the client machine a launcher application capable of being activated from a web page, dynamically locate, download and run the actual client bytecode, transparently enforce client software updates, and supporting multiple applications (and multiple versions of the same application). However, we are facing many technical problems due to internal architecture of AIR and we already spent a considerable amount of effort trying to find a solution. We are now thinking to return on the choice of AIR, going back to Flex.
What is the position of Adobe on this argument? Is Adobe aware of these issues and are there any plans on this topic? Any advice?
Thank you in advance

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How to Call a AIR application from Flex Application

Hi,
    I have Used AIR (Desktop application) in Flex Builder to Upload a File from a local path and save it it a server path.
I need to Call this AIR(Desktop application) from my Flex Application.... i.e
I am using a link button to send a event using Script and Forward that Desktop application from Flex Screen
But it doesnot load that (Desktop application) in Screen. Only Balnk screen is loaded from path
Here is the code
AIR(Desktop application)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mx:WindowedApplication
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" creationComplete="openBrowseWindow();">
<mx:HTTPService id="urlpath" showBusyCursor="true" useProxy="false" method="
POST" url="http://localhost:8080/nat/FlexAction.do?method=UrlPath"result="pathresult(event)"
fault="faultHandler(event)"
>
</mx:HTTPService>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.events.FileEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.utils.ObjectUtil;
import mx.controls.Alert;
private
var openFile:File = new File()
private
function openBrowseWindow():void{openFile.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onOpenFileComplete);
openFile.addEventListener(Event.OPEN, load);
openFile.browse();
private
function load():void{Alert.show(
"load");
var imageTypes:FileFilter = new FileFilter("Images (*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif, *.png)", "*.jpg; *.jpeg; *.gif; *.png");
//var textTypes:FileFilter = new FileFilter("Text Files (*.txt, *.rtf)", "*.txt; *.rtf");
var allTypes:Array = new Array(imageTypes);openFile.browse(allTypes);
private
function faultHandler(event:FaultEvent):void {
//Alert.show("Fault")Alert.show(ObjectUtil.toString(event.fault));
private
function pathresult(event:ResultEvent):void{Alert.show(
"res")
//Alert.show(ObjectUtil.toString(event.result));}private
function onOpenFileComplete(event:Event):void{
//mx.controls.Alert.show("event: "+event.target.nativePath +"UR!!!");
var pPath = event.target.nativePath;
var parameters:Object = {FlexActionType:"PATH",path:pPath};
// Alert.show("Image Selected from Path : "+pPath); urlpath.send(parameters);
//Alert.show("Passed.."+parameters);}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Button click="openBrowseWindow();onOpenFileComplete(event)" name="Upload" label="Upload" x="120.5" y="10"/>
Here is Mxml Code for Flex Application
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mx:Application
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0.M4" >
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
private function Upload():void{
// CursorManager.setBusyCursor();
//var url:String = "HomeAction.do?method=onLoad";
//var url:String = "assets/Air.swf";
var url1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("assets/Air.swf");navigateToURL(url1,
"_self");
// CursorManager.removeBusyCursor(); }
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:LinkButton id="up" click="Upload()" x="295" y="215" label="UpLoad"/>
In this code i forward using s url to Open tat Desktop application but a blank screen appears with out the proper output...
Please Help me in this to forward AIR from Flex Screen..
Thanks in Advance
With Regards
Gopinath.A
Software Developer
First Internet Systems Pvt. Ltd.,
Chennai

try this
http://www.leonardofranca.com/index.php/2009/09/17/launching-an-installed-air-application- from-the-browser/
regards
Leonardo França
Adobe Certified Expert Flex 3 with AIR
Adobe Certified Expert Rich Internet Application Specialist v1.0
Adobe Certified Expert Flash CS3 Professional
Certified Professional Adobe Flex 2 Developer
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Adobe Air application installation using the bundled runtime installer

Hello.
We plan to develop application for different platforms with Adobe Air and testing installing Air applications with bundled runtime installer on different platforms. It's ok with Windows and Mac OS, but we got troubles with "silent" installation on Ubuntu OS 9.10.
I tried to install Adobe Air application with bundled runtime, like in this document in part "Silent installation":
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/redist/WS485a42d56cd19641-70d979a8124ef20a34b-8000.html
using command-line:
"sudo ./MyInstaller -silent simple-air-air-application-1.0-SNAPSHOT.air"
and installation fails. Installation log looks like this:
[setup:2306][INFO] Runtime Installer begin with version 2.6.0.19140 on Linux x86
[setup:2306][INFO] Commandline is: -silent simple-air-air-1.0-SNAPSHOT.air
[setup:2306][INFO] No installed runtime detected
[setup:2306][INFO] Invoking Application Installer for combined install
[setup:2306][INFO] Launching subprocess with commandline /tmp/air.QMrLZl/build/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer -runtime /tmp/air.QMrLZl/build/opt -silent -withRuntime -url file:///tmp/air.QMrLZl/simple-air-air-1.0-SNAPSHOT.air
[setup:2306][ERR] Subprocess app installer failed (-1)
[setup:2306][ERR] Runtime Installer end with exit code 7
P.S. We tried do the same on Linux Mint 10. Everything's fine, application getting installed well.

Thanks for the reply and solution MrSykes.
I uninstalled adobe AIR and ran a file and registry cleaner to delete any left over files and installs.
Then installed the v.15 Adobe AIR beta as recommended.
The cleaners I used (ccleaner & jv16 power tools) did find some temporary install files and remnants of the Video Alchemy install.
Tried the install again and still no installation window displays.
I'm running Windows 7 on my PC and even changed the installation file compatibility to Windows XP service pack 2 to no avail.
Funny that it installed fine on my notebook with Adobe AIR latest version running Windows 7.
I'm watching task manager as I'm attempting the install and videoalchemy.exe has some cpu usage then drops to zero activity.
Then Adobe AIR application Installer starts up then cycles to zero cpu activity.
I'm stumped on this one :-(
Thanks again for investing the time on my behalf.
Regards
Stephen

Adobe Air Application Installer.exe Documentation

Hello All,
i am having severe problems retrieving the documentation for "Adobe Air Application Installer.exe"
We have applied as Publisher for Air Apps here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/runtime_distribution1.html
and filled out the form
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=air_distribution2
After that we were hoping to receive documentation about seamless install of air applications, but we are waiting right now ...
So, time is running out, and i need the documentation of the "Adobe Air App Installer.exe"
So far i have managed to silently install an air app:
'$1 -silent -programMenu -location "$INSTDIR" "$TEMP\AirApp.air"' $0
Where $1 is the "Adobe Air Installer.exe" retrieved from the registry
$INSTDIR is the installation target path
$TEMP is a temporary folder, containing the to install Air Application
the above command works fine for clean and empty systems with no prior versions of the application installed.
what i now miss are the return code meanings, ranging from 0..9 where i only know that 0 means success !
And i would like to have a documentation about the
-update
and the
-uninstall
parameters for seamless installation/deinstallation of a whole air app with data

hi there,
i got the documentation also, dunno why they make it so hard
to get it
thank you very much !
greets from joymoney
ck
I was also facing this problem.
Today I got this
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/air_runtime_redist.pdf
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/air_runtime_redist.pdf

Adobe AIR Application certificate issue - Urgent

Hello,
I have created my AIR application in flex 3 using AIR 1.0. I have created it with local air certificate and dispatch the air application to the client. Now after 2-3 months i have got some new features to be added into that application for same client. I have lost my original certificate using which i have created the air application installer. Now if i am creating air with new certificate then it gives me following error:
This application cannot be installed because this installer has been mis-configured. Please contact the application author for assistance.
Can any one have any idea for how to get certificate recreated. Here certificate is not licenced one it was local. And my application is using auto update feature. So if i change the certificate then already installed application will never get update message. ITs a deadlock situation.Help me.
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Dhwani

Samsung Tab 3 features x86 architecture, did you try an Android-x86 build? (add -arch x86 to compiler flags)

Adobe AIR Application won't install

Also, tried reinistalling latest version of Adobe AIR but a message appears saying that the latest version of Adobe AIR is already installed, even though I thought I had unistalled it with the help of Microsoft Fix it (i.e. it no longer appeared in the least of programs installed on the computer).
I am using a Samsung laptop with Windows 7.
Following my latest attempt to install the application, I located the Adobe AIR log:
[2013-11-29:20:21:14] Runtime Installer begin with version 3.9.0.1210 on Windows 7 x86
[2013-11-29:20:21:14] Commandline is:
[2013-11-29:20:21:14] Installed runtime (3.9.0.1210) located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR
[2013-11-29:20:21:18] Launching subprocess with commandline c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Resources\Adobe AIR Updater -installupdatecheck
[2013-11-29:20:21:18] Runtime Installer end with exit code 0
[2013-11-29:20:21:37] Application Installer begin with version 3.9.0.1210 on Windows 7 x86
[2013-11-29:20:21:37] Commandline is: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mr Smooth\MrSmooth.1.0F.air"
[2013-11-29:20:21:37] Installed runtime (3.9.0.1210) located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR
[2013-11-29:20:21:37] Got an unexpected fatal error while loading SWF: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="app:/Adobe AIR Application Installer.swf" errorID=0]
[2013-11-29:20:21:58] Application Installer begin with version 3.9.0.1210 on Windows 7 x86
[2013-11-29:20:21:58] Commandline is: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mr Smooth\MrSmooth.1.0F.air"
[2013-11-29:20:21:58] Installed runtime (3.9.0.1210) located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR
[2013-11-29:20:21:58] Got an unexpected fatal error while loading SWF: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="app:/Adobe AIR Application Installer.swf" errorID=0]
[2013-11-29:20:22:03] Application Installer begin with version 3.9.0.1210 on Windows 7 x86
[2013-11-29:20:22:03] Commandline is: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mr Smooth\MrSmooth.1.0F.air"
[2013-11-29:20:22:03] Installed runtime (3.9.0.1210) located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR
[2013-11-29:20:22:03] Got an unexpected fatal error while loading SWF: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="app:/Adobe AIR Application Installer.swf" errorID=0]

Please note that I managed to resolve this myself by first of all deleting the Adobe AIR folder contained within C\Program Files (x86)\Common Files of my hard drive and then re-attempting the Adobe Air application installation. This immediately caused a prompting of an update to Adobe AIR, which I ran. It seems that the Adobe AIR application installation package contained an older version of Adobe AIR than was already installed within the 'Common Files' folder, and this apparently led to the error (sorry, I cannot explain it any more technical terms than that!).

Why is my Air application taking so long to show the first view on iOS devices?

I built an Air application that runs on Android devices and iOS devices. The application uses Air 3.4 and Flex SDK 4.6. On my Android device, the application starts in 5 seconds. On my iPad device, the application starts in 90 seconds.
My application has a splash screen, which is launched via the ViewNavigatorApplication property, splashScreenImage.
The application was built in release mode and the SWF file is 1.384M. After I create the ad-hoc build, which includes the Air Captive Runtime, I see the following file sizes and startup times.
iPad 2 - ipa size, 8.6M
12 seconds of black screen. Then my splash screen appears. 80+ seconds of splash screen. Then my first view appears.
Android Nexus 7 - apk size, 4.0M
2.5 seconds of black screen. Then my splash screen appears. 2.5 seconds of splash screen. Then my first view appears.
Here are more details about my app.
It's a video conferencing app. So I have to set renderMode to "cpu". The app has 5 views and several popups. The popups use the SkinnablePopupContainer. The app uses dependency injection as provided by the Parsley framework to share two small data objects between the views. The app uses web service calls to manage the conference state.
The problem occurs at startup. I haven't rendered a view with video logic, and the first view is a welcome page with a scrollable text area for terms and conditions, one button with an icon, one toggle button, and one hyperlink button.
The app has about 400k of embedded images which are rendered using the MultiDPIBitmapSource.
The app has 43.3K of icons for the various sizes as specified in the application xml file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I figured out how to resolve the issue. I had to change the renderMode from "cpu" to "direct". That solved the problem, and the application performs perfectly. Even the video displays work ok. It's interesting that Adobe advises against using "gpu" or "direct" renderMode when displaying video. I need to figure out why and make sure the application is acceptable as is.
I have more testing to conduct, but I'm very encouraged.

Adobe AIR application file types

Hello everyone,
I dont know how to go about this but i was wondering how possible it is to create an application with its own filetype using the AIR application descriptor xml file in such a way that everytime a file is created from that Air App, it takes the icon of the application. I kmow this is posssible beccause i have tried it. What is even cooler is the fact that everytime you click on that file, you AIR app automatically starts. But the Real Question is how do you start the App with you file loaded.
In my case i'm writtting an app in which you can create or load an SQLLite database file with a custom file type. Its an inventory manager which you can load databases which contain inventory information u previously stored or create a new database file to store your new inventory information. How do i Click an already existing database file so that the application loads with that database...
Anyone done something similar?

No thanks Guys, i figured how to load those files...all i had to do was to provide an implemention for the application's invoke event. the files clicked can be accessed by the event object's argument property which is an array so if you selected a file, the native path of the file can be accessed using event.arguments[0]
I hope this information is valuable to anyone who needs a similar functionality!

Adobe AIR Application Installation will not start

I purchased a program called Video Alchemy which requires Adobe AIR to run but the installation window will not display and the installation does not start.
The Adobe AIR log install log file can be found here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59423416/Install.log
Here is a link to the VideoAlchemy.exe install file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59423416/VideoAlchemy.exe
Can anyone help me to get this program to install?

Thanks for the reply and solution MrSykes.
I uninstalled adobe AIR and ran a file and registry cleaner to delete any left over files and installs.
Then installed the v.15 Adobe AIR beta as recommended.
The cleaners I used (ccleaner & jv16 power tools) did find some temporary install files and remnants of the Video Alchemy install.
Tried the install again and still no installation window displays.
I'm running Windows 7 on my PC and even changed the installation file compatibility to Windows XP service pack 2 to no avail.
Funny that it installed fine on my notebook with Adobe AIR latest version running Windows 7.
I'm watching task manager as I'm attempting the install and videoalchemy.exe has some cpu usage then drops to zero activity.
Then Adobe AIR application Installer starts up then cycles to zero cpu activity.
I'm stumped on this one :-(
Thanks again for investing the time on my behalf.
Regards
Stephen

Commerical adobe air application built using Robohelp - thoughts on software protection

Hello Forum,
I am in the process of building a commerical software application - a niche business methodology (processes, tools, templates) - and for which I naturally want to apply *some* level of protection against unauthorized copying. The two main requirements I have are:
1. That the software package itself cannot be installed any number of times on any number of machines (as is currently the case with the adobe air output for distribution).
2. That large chunks of the content cannot be copied and pasted
Here is where my thoughts are so far:
1. There are a number of third party providers in this space. The ones i have idenftifed so far are: LimeLM, NitroLM, Excel Software's AirLicense and Zarqon. There is also something called Sharify out there but from the site and lack of developer response I think this is now dormant. All of these provide a means of locking down one license to one device but that can be transferred if the user loses and changes their device. Has anyone had any experience of these or other solution providers?
2. As I understand it there is html code that can be added to disable copy and paste. Does anyone know what this is? Does anyone know how to apply it?
Finally: we are a small start up without in-house technical skills. This was a major reason we chose RoboHelp as a solution - it meant that the software could be build by us, the subject matter experts who were creating the content. Does anyone know of a good place to crowd-source the technical skill set required to apply both the solutions to 1 and 2 described above?
We are using RoboHelp 9 with Adobe Air desktop application output.
Thanks in advance for any constructive comments - and best wishes to you and yours for 2013!
Felix

Perhaps it's time to take stock of the requirement, what has been established and your options given where you are.
Requirements
You want protection against multiple installs.
You don't want users to be able to copy and paste the content.
Established
Neither of those are built in to AIR Help.
To build them in you would have to create your own AIR application as the RoboHelp code for creating the AIR installer is locked down. Confirmed by Scott Prentice on HATT.
You do not have an house AIR developer.
Options
Tackling Requirement 1 is going to require a developer to replicate what Adobe have done and add the extra requirement that the installer can only run once.
Given the hours that Adobe put into this and with the resources at their disposal, I have to question the commercial viability of that.
A customer could legitimately need to reinstall, for instance in the case of a hard drive failure.
Perhaps my earlier suggestion of finding someone who can wrap up the AIR file in something that deletes it after installation, thereby preventing a second installation, would be viable. You would need to investigate that and do it in a way the customer can get a fresh download where a further installation is legitimate.
Otherwise I think you need to be looking at a very different approach. Your problem is the same one that Adobe face. You will recall that when you installed RoboHelp you had to activate it. That authorises the use of RoboHelp on a specific machine. The licence authorises installation on a second machine and that has to be activated too. Attempt a third activation and you will get a polite refusal until you deactivate an earlier installation. What you need is a commercial organisation to supply your product in a similar way. The trouble there is your product is not an application in the same way as RoboHelp.
You could use the WebHelp output and apply password protection to your site but again you are going to require development skills. Even then, you are relying on your customers not to reveal the password and that sounds like a No No as you don't trust them not to copy and paste the information.
Copy and paste is difficult to prevent. There are tools for web sites that would likely work in webhelp but you also have to prevent screenshots being permitted. Ultimately, going to state secret espionage levels, how do you prevent someone taking a photo of the screen? It's more about making it difficult to do casually rather than making it impossible. A high brick wall around your house makes entry difficult and deters most from attempting entry, it does not make it impossible.
I am sorry this is all negative but the root problem is your approach was wrong given these requirements. Unless someone else has other ideas, I think you need some commercial consultancy for information on how to get this idea off the ground and that is way beyond what this forum offers. Perhaps you could approach Scott Prentice at http://www.leximation.com for such assistance but I think it would be on a fee paying basis. Scott is a very knowledgeable person in many areas and he is very approachable.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

AIR Applications fail to install (Acer Aspire One, Linux)

I've successfully installed the latest version of AIR for Linux on my Aspire One, although it took a few attempts.
I am, however, not succeeding in installing any apps.
1. My system believes that .air files are actually ZIP files and offers to unpack them: there seems to be nothing I can point them at to be opened by AIR itself.AIR does not appear in any menus, app lists etc
2. If I go to a site that offers a "badge" install, the install system correctly recognises that AIR 1.5 is installed (checked box in the installer) and doesn't try to install it again. However, the apps do not install successfully - all fail with an Error #2004 and ask me to try again, which always fails.
I can't seem to find any information whatsoever on this anywhere and I'm a bit surprised. It is surely not impossible to achieve, and I equally don't believe nobody else has had any trouble.
Suggestions anyone?
Thanks!
--Richard E

Right! "rpmbuild" was the answer to installing AIR successfully on this machine.
Assuming that you have somewhat unlocked the machine as described in http://macles.blogspot.com/ and elsewhere, this simplest way of getting rpmbuild installed is to open a terminal and, as root, do "yum install rpm-build" - note the hyphen in the package name. If you aren't subscribed to a suitable repository, you can find it pretty easily with a Google for "fedora8 rpm-build".
With rpm-build in place, AIR installed successfully using "./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin".
".air" applications are now correctly identified as belonging to AIR and badge installs also work.
My intention in doing all this was to get a suitable Twitter etc app running on the machine, so I first tried the current version of Seesmic Desktop. It opened normally and allowed me to enter account details… and lo! it downloaded tweets! Unfortunately I never managed to get it to do that again. A bunch of small authorisation windows opened up, one for each installed account, requiring confirmation of password, and I couldn't enter anything in the field with the main window open. Minimising the main window I could now enter passwords, and OK dismissed the window, but it didn't seem to do any good. I have not seen a tweet since and all the panels in the main window are empty. A pity.
My other favourite Twitter app is Tweetdeck - in fact I think it's superior to Seesmic Desktop if you just run a single Twitter account. Here the main window opens somewhat off-screen and blank (black) with control buttons at the top. Unfortunately although the buttons reveal their tooltips on mouseover, you can't actually access any of them, notably the account setup button. Thus the app is not usable.
Third attempt was Twhirl, also from Seesmic (http://www.twhirl.org/). The version I had previously downloaded, 0.8.6, opened an account setup window but when you entered a password it just sat there. Luckily behind it was a window offering an update. Updating the package installed 0.9.2. This time the account window allowed the entering of an account name and password and duly displayed a window of tweets! And I was also able to write and send tweets successfully. Success! You can enter details for multiple accounts, and each has its own resizable window that contains messages pertaining to the account. Not as useful for me as Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop, but entirely usable (Desktop is actually a bit big for this machine's display anyway). However closing and reopening Twhirl I discovered that the application is not remembering passwords even when you tell it to - though it does remember the account names. Although I would like a fully-functioning app (and preferably one or both of the other two) this will do for the time being.
I notice that issues regarding passwords and authorisation are the common factors in these misbehaviours: if anyone can shed any light on this, please let me know.
Thanks to GauravKhurana for the key to solving this issue and the support in discovering it.
--Richard E

Adobe Air Applications Not launching. Flash Builder 4.5.1

I had this issue before where only flash based applications would launch but not adobe air. The issue is when you click run on adobe air, in the task manager on windows 7, 64 bit you get: Adobe Air Debug Launcher. Killing that gives me: If the program is already running, close it before attempting to run.
The program never launches hence why you have to kill it in the task manager.
I tried cleaning out the PreloadSWF entry in the mmc.cfg file. This does nothing to help the cause.
Ideas?

Please read the OP on the stale pale loader. I already took out the line in mm.cfg and I set vsible to true (never had to before on any air application Oo)
Tests:
The setting to visible to true though worked..... (again with never had to set that before)

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