Help Support in ADOBE AIR application.
How to add context sensitive help for the ADOBE Air application.
Is there any authoring tool to author help for any ADOBE AIR application.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Penugonda
Hi Jon,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, the AIR team is aware of this issue on Ubuntu. And we are looking into this.
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Will there be future support from Adobe AIR for Desktop native Applications
We have a desktop native application developed using Flex SDK 4.1 and running on Adobe AIR. Now as Adobe has donated Flex SDk to Apache we are concerned about the future of this application. If we rescale our application with new versions of Flex SDk released by Apache, in future will the new versions of Adobe AIR support it? As I have read in Adobe Forums that Adobe is more concentrated on providing HTML5 support in Adobe AIR, and not working for Flex support anymore, can we face any problems going forward with this combination?
We have a desktop native application developed using Flex SDK 4.1 and running on Adobe AIR. Now as Adobe has donated Flex SDk to Apache we are concerned about the future of this application. If we rescale our application with new versions of Flex SDk released by Apache, in future will the new versions of Adobe AIR support it? As I have read in Adobe Forums that Adobe is more concentrated on providing HTML5 support in Adobe AIR, and not working for Flex support anymore, can we face any problems going forward with this combination?
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Hi,
I was suprised to find there's no retina display support for Adobe AIR (3.9).
Macs with retina displays have been around for quite some time now.
This is a crucial feature as I will not be able to use my application on my retina display.
A bug report has been opened here: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3662094
Thanks.Hi Jeffrey,
This is indeed an issue with the HTML control, however the StageWebView(true) control does support retina devices. Is it possible for you to use this instead?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/StageWebVie w.html#StageWebView()
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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 advanceFor those following along, Oliver Goldman will be answering this post in future articles on his blog.
Many great comments and questions here. I’m working on some follow-up posts to address these; nothing I could cram into this comment field would really do your query justice. - Oliver Goldman
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How to get the data from mysql database which is being accessed by a PHP application and process the data locally in adobe air application and finally commit the changes back in to mysql database through the PHP application.
If the data is on a remote server (for example, PHP running on a web server, talking to a MySQL server) then you do this in an AIR application the same way you would do it with any Flex application (or ajax application, if you're building your AIR app in HTML/JS).
That's a broad answer, but in fact there are lots of ways to communicate between Flex and PHP. The most common and best in most cases is to use AMFPHP (http://amfphp.org/) or the new ZEND AMF support in the Zend Framework.
This page is a good starting point for learning about Flex and PHP communication:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/flex_php.html
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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
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and the
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parameters for seamless installation/deinstallation of a whole air app with datahi there,
i got the documentation also, dunno why they make it so hard
to get it
thank you very much !
greets from joymoney
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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 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.
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[2013-11-29:20:21:14] Commandline is:
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[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
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[2013-11-29:20:21:58] Application Installer begin with version 3.9.0.1210 on Windows 7 x86
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[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!).
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I want to encrypt and decrypt pdf files in adobe air application. I tried it many ways but am not getting it right method.
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How to save the date in Sqlite in Adobe Air application
hi friends,
i am doing a flex Adobe AIR Application with SQLITE Data base,in that i want to save Date in the following format DD/MM/YYYY, but in my TABLE i gave the data type is DATE,
So it store the value like this Sun Dec 2 00:00:00 GMT+0530 2012.i want to store the value in DD/MM/YYYY.How to do that?
looking for useful suggession.
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7d49.html
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<Button click="updateSQLHandler(event)"/>
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Then, you create a String varible that is an SQL commands with the texts in the form, and update the SQL database following the below using the execute() command (refer to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7d49.html ).
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Testing adobe air applications with fake apple certificate in iOS simulator running in a hackintosh
I can compile an Adobe Air application on windows with a fake apple certificate. Can I test this application in iOS Simulator running on a hackintosh? Or is the simulator blocking testing of IPA outside from XCode ie: it's not a standalone simulator for IPA files. Are there any affordable web service for testing IPA with a true emulator or real device? I'm asking this because Flash Builder doesn't provide a true simulator, it lacks essential API functions such as NativeWindow.
Hello,
thanksk so far. I can now create an ANE, hopefully it is correct...
Now, while trying to use it in my mobile application, calling the Constructor of my SWC interface > call initNativeExtension() I get an:
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I have created a new Adobe AIR application (HTML/JavaScript) in Aptana Studio.
To implement the password protected db, i am trying to implement the EncryptionKeyGenerator class from the swf file of as3corelib.
However, when i try to access it's functions, i get the following error
Value not a constructor. So i am not able to access the functions of the class.
Can anyone help me..?Thanks 4 the reply...
I downloaded as3corelib library from http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/downloads/list, extracted the library.swf file from the available as3corelib.swc file, included it to the lib tab of my application, renamed it as EncryptionKeyGenerator.swf and i've done the following:
<script type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="lib/EncryptionKeyGenerator.swf"></script>
function init(){
var ekg;
if(window.runtime)
if(!ekg)ekg={};
ekg.EncryptionKeyGenerator=window.runtime.com.adobe.air.crypto.EncryptionKeyGenerator;//from a document over net
keyGenerator=new ekg.EncryptionKeyGenerator();
On running my application, it says Value not a constructor.
However, i downloaded a installer package, EncryptedDBHTML.air over the net and when i used the EncryptionKeyGenerator.swf file from this package in my application, it worked. Now, the available codin used this:
ekg.EncryptionKeyGenerator=window.runtime.com.adobe.data.encryption.EncryptionKeyGenerato r;
I tried using the above package name, however i end up with the same error.
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Howto: Put in CD / DVD - sample adobe air application with installing process:
Hello anything,
Please do not forget!
With Flex-SDK (newer version)
CD / DVD: ROM:
/os
/win = Windows Version like *.exe, *.msi, *.cmd *.vs or *.ws
/mac = Macintoch Version like *.pkg, *.app, *.dmg,, *.mpkg
/lin = Linux version like *.run, *. , *.bin, *.sh, *.rpm,
*.deb
/setup = your adobe air application like Custom air-able
installer = my great installer ( Cominig soon... )
/images your photos or texture or any styles... , icons too
/acabs = my suggestion for like Windows *.cab <> Air
Cab = *.acab
/locales = for your languages ...
/folder any your suggestions...
/flex-sdk = Flex Software Development Kit = Adobe Flex SDK
(no flexbuilder 3)
/helps = When you need help like *.pdf Files.for Installer
/ = callable autorun with autostart.jar or autorun.jar
If you want to build powerful application on Windows 32 or 64
Bit you can sometime regedit writing. DO NOT WORRY!!!! My special
installer (coming soon).
I have been created a sample installer. whe i am final with
my installer. Do not worry! You can to believe me really. :)
How do i bind to exec for java? (No javascript! OK)
How do i create shell for Mac OS X Leopard
Do not forget!
I have been created shell in /os/mac/preload_installer.sh,
How do i know when i do not use with disk image moving and
clicking? How does my shell start automacally?
I know for Linux. I have not problem for linux version. I
have Ubuntu 8.05 LTS Version. :).
But i haven't Mac OS X :(
Thank you for cross-plattform-able CD or DVD :)
Enjoy for making with image and burn an image since cd or
dvd-rom.
Best regards, SnakeMediaCould you open a new bug report on this over at bugbase.adobe.com. Please include a copy of your app (or a sample project) along with steps to reproduce. Once added, please let me know the bug number and I'll have somone take a look ASAP.
Thanks,
Chris -
Adobe AIR Application Distribution
I have a client that requested me to do them a CD application
which I am thinking of using Adobe AIR.
Does the distribution license allow Adobe AIR applications
made using Flex or Flash be published through CD-roms and for
downloads? Are there any implications for this?
Also, does the license allow if say Adobe AIR player is put
together with the Adobe AIR application into a CD for distribution
so that if a computer does not have Adobe AIR player to install the
AIR application, he/she can install the player directly from the CD
without going to the Internet?AIR does not support running applications from a CD-ROM;
that's both a technical and a licensing limitation.
You can redistribute both AIR and your application via
CD-ROM, thus enabling off-line install, if you agree to a
redistribution license. See
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/runtime_distribution1.html
for details.
Oliver Goldman | Adobe AIR Engineering -
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
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