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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:41:44 +0000

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By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:40:36 +0000

enlightened,

Sorry, no ideas there.

hai anh,

Sorry, I have no idea how to solve that.

By: hai anh

hai anh — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:43:03 +0000

Sorry because I try to fix my comment format but it’s not ok. You can read my full question in http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=192460

By: hai anh

hai anh — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:38:12 +0000

Hi Robert Nyman! I have problem with javascript. Can you help me? I try to use Javascript inside Actionscript which call MS word to read document. But it error when I initial ActiveXObject.

Here is my code
test.mxml

htmlwithJS.html


		function loadworddoc(){

	  		var doc = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");

	  		doc.Visible=false;

	  		doc.Documents.Open("C:\Sam\Sam.doc");

	  		var txt;

	  		txt = doc.Documents("C:\Sam\Sam.doc").Content;

	  		document.all.myarea.value = txt;

	  		doc.quit(0);

		}
		test now

If I run AIR app the error message is : ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: ActiveXObject but if I run each htmlwithJS.html I can see it load MS Word document. Why it is wrong?
Thank any suggest!!!
Hai Anh

By: hai anh

hai anh — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:29:45 +0000

Hi Robert Nyman! I have problem with javascript. Can you help me? I try to use Javascript inside Actionscript which call MS word to read document. But it error when I initial ActiveXObject.

Here is my code
test.mxml

htmlwithJS.html


		function loadworddoc(){

	  		var doc = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");

	  		doc.Visible=false;

	  		doc.Documents.Open("C:\Sam\Sam.doc");

	  		var txt;

	  		txt = doc.Documents("C:\Sam\Sam.doc").Content;

	  		document.all.myarea.value = txt;

	  		doc.quit(0);

		}
		test now

By: enlightened

enlightened — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:32:04 +0000

Great script. I knew nothing, now I know a bit more

Anyone seen a packaged script like this that handles docking and undocking an air application to the system tray. I can’t seem to find anything that doesn’t rely on Flash, Flex or AS3.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:23:46 +0000

Shannon,

There’s also an element named cancel-update expected, if you look closer in the compareVersions method. Just make sure to have an element named that, and a click on it will hide the update dialog.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:05:23 +0000

I feel like a complete idiot asking this because it should be such a simple question….

but I’ve been trying to figure it out all day.

How do I provide an ok/cancel (or yes/no) confirmation window within the application when it loads to state there’s an update available and give the user the option to upgrade now?

I see the “release-notes” and “update-application” in the js above, but everything I’ve tried on my application didn’t seem to do anything.

I have the above code in a js file and imported in the header.

Many thanks,
Shannon

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Auto Update Air Applications | Adobe AIR Tutorials — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:28:26 +0000

[...] Learn more on how to push application updates to the end users @ AIRUpdater [...]

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:31:00 +0000

HB,

Absolutely, that could be an interesting option!

By: HB

HB — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:35:34 +0000

Even though you can’t update only parts of an AIR app using the AIR Updater framework, you could certainly incorporate your own code to download and overwrite specific XML/swf files. So your sales guys wouldn’t know the difference, and (perhaps even better, depending on your viewpoint) the app wouldn’t have to restart after downloading the new content.

The code to download would be very similar to initUpdateApplication above, and when it’s done the app could display its own message if you want, or it could just start using the updated files seamlessly.

At work we have a digital sign app which gets new XML playlists and data feeds, FLV / SWF video ads and static image ads, and they automatically update those assets without AIR’s update framework, and when the app itself needs a fix, it uses the update framework.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:14:28 +0000

Hemagiri,

As far as I know, it’s not possible.

By: Hemagiri

Hemagiri — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:49:37 +0000

We need to develop one sales presentation in flash with Adobe AIR capabilities. The idea is once developed and deployed, sales guys will get updated content using Adobe AIR Update Frame work. As the intial application will be around 10 MB and it will have many seperate SWFs. We intend to update only few swf or few XML files in further release of applicaiton. Otherwise updating entire APP will be of Huge size. Does AIR have this kind of support / capabilities.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:34:10 +0000

seme,

Interesting questions. But no, this only checks version number of the application. If you want to make extra calls when it is done, you need to tweak the script.

By: seme

seme — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:41:35 +0000

Is there a way to have a series of commands executed right after the update is completed only once ?

The idea here is to update the old database with new fields based on the old version number.

By: seme

seme — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:24:14 +0000

What about updating the database ? If changes were made to the SQLite database in the new version, is there a smooth and easy way to detect the changes (fields/tables added/removed) and apply it to the old database ?

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:51:44 +0000

johnbillion,

Thanks for the tip!

Mark,

You’re welcome!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:32:46 +0000

Thank you so much for this!

I’m going to be integrating it into my AIR application that’s still in development.

By: johnbillion

johnbillion — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:15:32 +0000

If your application has problems downloading the .air installer file from your server, you may need to explicitly set the mime type on your server so it handles the file correctly.

Check out http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/2007/10/air-mime-type/ for details.

I had to do this as my server was trying to preprocess the .air file before sending it, instead of just sending it as an application file.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:42:06 +0000

Kevin,

Thank you! It’s my bad, I didn’t put in the source file…

It is released as open source, under a MIT license (this is mentioned and there’s a link to the terms for that license at the AIRUpdater project start page).