Checking Internet connectivity in AIR application

Question

Hi All,
How to check internet connected or not in AIR app.
Event.NETWORK_CHANGE only tells the change in the status,but it dosent
tell if it is disabled or enabled.
Please share if anything else can tell if internet is available.
-Sheetal.

Answer 1

You should also look into the service monitoring classes, especially the URLMonitor class.
For example, the following ActionScript code uses an instance of the URLMonitor class to detect connectivity changes to the Adobe website:
var monitor:URLMonitor = new URLMonitor(new URLRequest('http://www.example.com'));
monitor.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, announceStatus);
monitor.start();
function announceStatus(e:StatusEvent):void {
    trace("Status change. Current status: " + monitor.available);
Here's a JavaScript version:
var monitor = new air.URLMonitor(new URLRequest('http://www.example.com'));
monitor.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, announceStatus);
monitor.start();
function announceStatus(e:StatusEvent):void {
     trace("Status change. Current status: " + monitor.available);