Pursuit of Simplicity

Hey Oliver,

I really like the AIR install process except of one thing:

The download time between the click on "Open" to when the install dialog appears doesn't show you any loading process. So if you have a slow connection or if the app is a 1MB+ download there's some time where nothing happens. This is quite confusing.

Can't you change that?

Yes, that delay before the window opens is a bug that I expect we'll address before the next release.

Thanks ! I have already experienced that sexy installation !!!

Hi Oliver,

I just have one question, how can i use install badge for my webapp . . where it automatically installs (or pop) the runtime?

Ron: The SDK includes documentation describing how to embed the install badge. You can use it from a web app by simply emitting the correct HTML to embed the badge.

Hi. We are working with AIR and its great so far and npw...install questions! Could not find documentation so...
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1) What functionality does the System.Product class provide in addition to the "isInstalled()", "download()" and "launch()" methods?

2) Is there a way to run the "download()" and "launch()" silently?
Alternatively, what options, if any, are provided by the "air_b2_win_100107.exe" and by the "Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe"?

3) Is it possible to run them silently?

Thank you so much!!!

-Keith

Keith: The System.Product API is officially unsupported and you have no reason to use it directly anyway, so I won't say anything more about it here.

We don't provide any way to silently install or launch anything from the browser. The horrible security implications of such a feature should be clear!

It is possible to run the installer for AIR itself silently if you pass it the "-silent" flag on the command line. Just to be clear, you can't do this from the browser. You can do it if you are running the installer yourself, i.e., from the command line. Also, please keep in mind that this command line flag isn't officially supported and could be removed, changed, etc. at any time.

I am also interested in running the installer silently from command line, and the -silent switch definitely helps. I am curious to know whether the “AIR Application Installer” can also run silently, and if yes, how is it possible to send it options such as install directory, start menu shortcuts, etc.

By the way, the reason I am using a native installer and trying to embed AIR runtime and installation process into it is because my application needs to read registry keys. I wonder if AIR will support reading registry keys in the near future.

Thank you,
Izzy

Izzy: No, we don't support running the application installer silently. I understand your use case and you're not alone in asking for this. That said, we've made a decision to focus on cross-platform capabilities in 1.0 and not on features like this that are tied to platform-specific native code.

We won't, for the same reasons, be adding access to the Windows registry any time soon.

Both of these requests may be included in some future release. Please use www.adobe.com/go/wish to request these and other features.

Oliver,

I'm able to run the AdobeAIRInstaller.exe silently - works fine.

So what you're saying is that my ".air" file cannot be executed silently in anyway, correct?

Cheers.

Silent application install is supported for those who have signed up to redistribute the runtime. See also Mike Chamber's recent post on the subject.

regards,
Oliver