Comments on: AIR Tip 11 – Launching an AIR Application from an AIR Application

By: kb

kb — Sun, 22 May 2011 03:38:41 +0000

This seems like a job for NativeProcess as of AIR 2.0.

By: Nikola

Nikola — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:26:31 +0000

Hello,

In general, I have two questions:

Lets say I have a launcher (air application with buttons) for launching already installed air applications on the same PC.

1. How to check if an air application is installed? So, If the target application is installed on the system, the corresponding button in the launcher will be enabled, otherwise disabled. How can be possible? What about the air 2.0?

2. How to launch an applications using the air 2.0?

Can you please post some examples regarding these probles?

Thanks in advance,
Nikola

By: Rusiru Boralugoda

Rusiru Boralugoda — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:17:01 +0000

Thanks for a great tutorial David. But I sort of have a different problem.

What if I want to run a one mxml component as another application from the main mxml application while the main mxml is running.

Say, I have an admin panel and a projector screen. I want to project some of the details in the projector screen while admin panel is running. So here there are two applications as the admin panel and the projector.

I can’t use your method here because the projector it self has different states that change.

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By: seth

seth — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:47:35 +0000

I don’t know if this thread is still active but i’m wondering if any readers here have gotten detection of an AIR application installation from another AIR application working. I can successfully launch AIR from AIR but the API call to get the installed version in order to determine if it’s installed doesn’t work. From a browser it works fine but from an AIR app. the callback never gets called. Is this by design? If I can launch AIR from AIR seems to me I ought to be able to get the installed version of another AIR application as long as I have the appID and pubID. However the callback never gets called and there’s no error when the API call is initiated from an AIR application.

By: qnaguru

qnaguru — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:48:20 +0000

Could not get it to work with my own AIR Application(although correct publisherid and applicaiton id was provided), worked only for launching the target app provided for download. What could be the issue?

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Sun, 25 May 2008 16:42:55 +0000

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By: Maz

Maz — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:27:11 +0000

Hey hey nice tip mate, did not think of that one ; thanks for sharing it.

But still waiting for other apps launching capability for AIR…

{Maz}