Comments on: AIR Tip 6 – Launching an Application from the Browser

By: Ain

Ain — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:02:12 +0000

All Developer Guide links under References are broken.

By: Web Developer

Web Developer — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:44:49 +0000

Hi David

I am trying to use this on AIR 2.0. I couldnt get this to work correctly. I think there is no requirement of a publisher ID, etc on AIR 2.0 and this is causing issues.

Thanks!

By: CK

CK — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:20:22 +0000

Hi David,

Can I use this way to install/launch native installer application (instead of air)? My application is using the NativeProcess class. When I tried to put appurl as EXE, I got “The application could not be installed because the installer file is damaged.” error.

Thanks.

By: Jonathan Blackburn

Jonathan Blackburn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:39:55 +0000

Hi David,

I have an AIR app installing from the browser. However, when the user clicks the launch button in my swf (which is a home-spun badge essentially), I get a dialogue that says “Open”, “Save” and “Cancel”. I want to get rid of the “Save” button as the direct download approach doesn’t accept custom params… or so it seems.

Any tips you might have would be welcome.

thanks.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:48:22 +0000

Hi David,

Is it possible for browser to find out if a certain AIR application is running or not?

thanks

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:44:35 +0000

Hi David,

What IP are you talking about? I just point the applicationID and publishID to the a installed AIR app, I didn’t specify any IP address.

thanks.

By: David Tucker

David Tucker — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:45:51 +0000

@Bob – after I wrote this article there was a change to the API. The Browser API only allows alpha-numeric characters. If you were to format the IP in a different manner (without the periods) – the error should go away.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:41:32 +0000

Hi David,

I am new to AIR. I tried to open a installed AIR app from browser by following the tip but no luck. what I did is as following.

1. Installed Tip11-1.air downloaded from your tip 11.

2. Unzip airtip6 and webshare the example folder.

3. Changed the applicationID and publisherID in the index.html to point to Tip11.
so.addVariable( “applicationID”, “net.davidtucker.airtips.LaunchApplication1″ );
so.addVariable( “publisherID”, “C3AD24548343F7569498274306102AB328526006.1″ );

4. Browse to index.html file, I can see the flash detected air installed, but when I double click it, it stucked at “Attempting to Launch AIR Application”.

Also I tried to install the tip6 sample app, but I got “Invalid argument: IP 203.99.129.1″

Could you please help out to see if I misunderstood or missed something? thank you very much in advance.

Bob

By: Joe Napoli

Joe Napoli — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:28:02 +0000

David,

We are trying to figure out where to get the Publisher ID for AIR help files and cannot. Adobe says they don’t support the product. Can you please tell me how to get this ID? I’m not sure what you mean by the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.publisherID.

Thanks and regards,

J. Napoli

By: Michl

Michl — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:30:49 +0000

Hi, I read your book as well as the online articles here but I haven’t found a solution for the following problem:

I want to invoke an Air app automatically from the Browser after the user successfully logged in to a specific site.

It looks like executing the .launchApplication() function checks back if it’s triggered from a click event and I don’t know how to cheat that one yet.

So, any ideas on that one?

Thanks a lot!
- Michl