Comments on: Redistributing the Adobe AIR Runtime Installer

By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:01:30 +0000

@Wins

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And what’s worst is that Adobe seems more interested in forcing people to visit their Adobe download website than making it easy for the user to get a copy of the runtime.
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I suggest that you read the documentation on the seamless badge install, which installs Adobe AIR directly from the Flash Player, without requiring the user to visit adobe.com or even leave the existing web page.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: Wins

Wins — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:35 +0000

Yeah this distribution license is really strange.
Why did they have to make a new product called Air instead of incorporating everything in to Flash?
Flash already has a huge install base. That’s why I was attracted to it. Air has virtually no install base. But because has a few more critical libraries that Flash doesn’t have we are forced to use it. And we want to use it because of Flash, but it really isn’t Flash at all because you have to install a different runtime engine. And what’s worst is that Adobe seems more interested in forcing people to visit their Adobe download website than making it easy for the user to get a copy of the runtime. That’s why the per case licensing agreement, to keep the mass from doing it and forcing users to go to the Adobe site.

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By: CDGUY

CDGUY — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:43:10 +0000

>If you need a standalone projector, then I suggest looking at something like zinc or Director.

Are you serious? Flash w/AS3 hardly runs at all in Director 11, and god forbid you have a video component. Director 10 (MX 2004) only supported Flash 7.

Couldn’t Adobe extend Macromedia’s requirement that the logo only needed to be displayed someplace, like on quit? Hell, how about a link to the AIR site?

As a still surviving CD developer, I have been waiting a long time for better integration of Director and Flash, and then I thought AIR was the best of both.

No standalone runtime apps off distributable media for AIR? Ever? What a crock!!

By: Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:32:48 +0000

@Chris, ditto ….

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:47:23 +0000

I can’t seem to find clear instruction on how to successfully package the badge/detection on CD, leaving the installer on adobe.com.

My end goal is to rely on the runtime installer being hosted at adobe.com, the AIR application on my client server, and the remaining code (html, javascript, badge.swf) on a CD-ROM. I get security errors when I try this - how can I avoid?

None of the documentation I’ve seen seems to cover this scenario. I’m not interested in redistributing the runtime on CD.

Thanks,

Chris

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:36:55 +0000

Just a simple question, and I do apologize if it has been answered already. We, our company, have the runtime installed on our clients but wish to distribute via SMS to our users our “myapplication.air” installer. Is there a way of making this install quiet, i.e. C:\myapplication.air /s or /q?

Appreciated,

Vince

By: Rick Man

Rick Man — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:10:14 +0000

Is there an installer which can be called from the autorun-file on a CD-ROM.
I can imagine that it will be possible to install the Air-runtime (if necessary) and an application together from a CD-ROM.

By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:43:05 +0000

>Therefore I hope shu-player will not become forbidden;

See this comment from above:

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/04/07/redistributing-the-adobe-air-runtime-installer/#comment-12073

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: François BOUKHALFA

François BOUKHALFA — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:30:05 +0000

Thanks for your quick answer Mike.

The fact is I (and many people too) haven’t any knowledge in Director but good skills in flash/flex and web technologies.

I would preferred using a standard API directly stated by Adobe (like AIR) than using exotic Zinc API or whatever.

Therefore I hope shu-player will not become forbidden; it’s my last hope to see AIR adopted by business decision makers at my job.

regards.
François.