Comments on: Open an AIR application from a 2nd AIR application

By: Flashsoap » Blog Archive » AIR | AS3 | Open a AIR application from another AIR application via the ProductManager class

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:16:20 +0000

[...] found this on http://blog.everythingflex.com. His post is quite old now (a year), the AIR version was 1.5 I think, now you don’t need to [...]

By: Ain

Ain — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:58:10 +0000

So what’s the procedure to open an AIR 2 application from another AIR 2 app?

Adobe claims that publisher ID should no more be used and is deprecated.

By: Ain

Ain — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:47:44 +0000

For AIR 2.5, it looks as following:

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// Generated from frameworks/libs/air/airglobal.swc
package adobe.utils
{
import flash.events.EventDispatcher;

[native(cls="ProductManagerClass", instance="ProductManagerObject", methods="auto")]
[ExcludeClass]
[Event(name="error", type="flash.events.ErrorEvent")]
[Event(name="verifyError", type="flash.events.IOErrorEvent")]
[Event(name="diskError", type="flash.events.IOErrorEvent")]
[Event(name="networkError", type="flash.events.IOErrorEvent")]
[Event(name="complete", type="flash.events.Event")]
[Event(name="cancel", type="flash.events.Event")]
public final class ProductManager extends EventDispatcher
{
function ProductManager(name : String = null, shared : Boolean = false) : void;

public function doSelfUpgrade(os : String) : Boolean;

public function download(caption : String = null, fileName : String = null, pathElements : Array = null) : Boolean;

public function get installed() : Boolean;

public function get installedVersion() : String;

public function launch(parameters : String = null) : Boolean;

public function get running() : Boolean;
}
}

By: Ain

Ain — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:14:41 +0000

Although, already a rather old post, still most useful.
Thanks for sharing the hidden Flash Platform goodness!

By: madhu panisetty

madhu panisetty — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:51:02 +0000

@Jonathan

you have to use – - (2 hypens side by side) to pass arguments

@Rich Tretola
For some reason when I type – - without space in comments it is being converted to single hypen.