Comments on: Important Notes on Using the AIR Badge Installation

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:20:33 +0000

Tt seems that the air install badge doesn’t work 100% (many cases when after pressing the button several times the download isn’t triggered or errors occur) and thus had to offer a direct download version.
Have a look at http://www.getwebreader.com/2011/02/a-better-custom-air-install-badge-google-analytics/ for a different implementation

By: Hilton Pippitt

Hilton Pippitt — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:42 +0000

Wow, truly great info. Your blog is really awesome. I bookmarked it and will come back again.

By: Novian

Novian — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:15:48 +0000

A follow-up to my previous post:

It appears the issue had to do with the fact that I hadn’t successfully uninstalled the AIR runtime. I did uninstall the AIR runtime however I forgot to uninstall a couple of AIR apps. Once I removed these apps, I didn’t encounter the error message.

Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge, David.

By: Novian

Novian — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:38:31 +0000

Hi David,

I appreciate your tutorial. I am however running into a problem – a problem others seem to have run into as well. If I don’t have the AIR runtime installed, and I click on a “install now” button, I get the following error:

“Something went wrong trying to install this application. Please install the latest version of Adobe AIR from http://www.adobe.com/go/getair and then try again.”

Any ideas as to why I would get this error? Note: I get this on all seamless badge installs, not just the ones in your examples.

Thanks.

By: ram

ram — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:18:03 +0000

Hi David – I followed your excellent article “Deploying Adobe AIR applications seamlessly…” and used the attached samples. The problem I have is that the install badge appears in a separate HTML page. My website is a Flash AS2 site. I have a download button which uses getURL() function which kicks in the customised AIR install html code. Question: how do I get the badge install dialog box to appear on the same Flash page? Many thanks.

By: David Tucker

David Tucker — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:16:24 +0000

@Arby – The source for the install badge is in the Adobe AIR SDK – not in my exercise files. You can download the Adobe AIR SDK here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/sdk/

By: Arby

Arby — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:03:15 +0000

I’m annoyed that your instruction PDF says source files are in the SRC directory and what do I find? No FLA files.

By: David Tucker

David Tucker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:22:59 +0000

Great! I am glad that it helped out.

By: Joshua Rodgers

Joshua Rodgers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:29:44 +0000

Good info to know, I recently added the installer badge following your examples and it was really easy. I had to modify the html page because I was using it as an include file in my blog so I had to adjust the paths and take out the body/header tags simply because I didnt need them. Thanks again for putting those post out there, they helped me a ton!

http://justjoshn.com/extras/examples/contact-manager-air-example