Working with badge.swf and air.swf (browser api)

Question

I basically want to install and run my app through the
browser so ive been testing but can't manage to figure out how the
air.swf api works. i am stuck at loading air.swf. the page below
has a tutorial but a downloadable sample code would be perfect, not
sure where the little snippets of code from the "Loading the
air.swf file", "Checking from a web page if an AIR application is
installed", "installing an AIR application from the browser", and
"Launching an installed AIR application from the browser" go in my
own codebase. Also im a bit unclear on where i get appid or
developer id. if someone has an example app or more in-depth
explantion of incorporating the given code , i would much
appreciate it.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=distributing_apps_3.html

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
cjm771
can't manage to figure out how the air.swf api works
The main thing you must understand about air.swf
is that its most important functionality can only be called from
within a UI event handler, such as for a button click. It's very
picky about this. You can't, for example, use the button click
event handler to begin the loading of air.swf, then in the "loaded"
callback do the air.swf API call. air.swf has to be loaded and
ready at the time the event handler is called. So, load it on app
startup. I even go to the extent of disabling the buttons that call
into air.swf until it's loaded.
quote:
im a bit unclear on where i get appid or developer id
The appid is your application's unique ID, which
you gave in setting up your project. Adobe recommends using
something based on your web site's domain name, in reverse order as
is done in Java and Objective C. If you're at foo.com, and call
your program Qux, then com.foo.qux is a good appid. The use of
domain-like names helps ensure that programs from different
companies don't collide with each others' namespaces.
By default, the pubid is a random number assigned by the IDE.
I forgot how you find out what number it used, just that there's a
way. Or, you can assign it yourself, in the project settings for
the AIR app. Right-click the project, go to the Run/Debug Settings
section, edit the launch configuration for your AIR app. You'll
find a Publisher ID field there. The documentation for ADL may be
helpful for picking your own pubid.
quote:
if someone has an example app or more in-depth explantion of
incorporating the given code , i would much appreciate it.
See my code in this thread:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=75&catid=697&threadid =1352505&highlight_key=y&keyword1=air%2Eswf