You can get a license to distribute the installer from Adobe. Then just silently install the player you need when installing your application. Unless there is something I don't know about the 'Plugin' version of the installer. We are doing exactly this but we are targeting windows only (C# app + Flash 9 ActiveX msi). Steve
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jules Suggate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi list, long-time-no-post :) > > I've a gnarly one here. > > I contract to a VC funded startup formed to create a cross-platform desktop > client. Unfortunately AIR's APIs are not low-level enough (e.g. you can't > burn a CD with AIR). We've looked at Zinc, Shu Player, Janus and the rest > but Zinc and Janus don't support MacOS very well and the legal issues around > Shu Player make us wary of using it. This is a consumer-facing app and needs > to be squeaky clean. > > How about embedding the NPAPI FP10 in a Java process? That would be > cross-platform, and we could use NPRuntime to interact seamlessly from Java. > > The Flash Player license allows us to automate download of the FP10 > installer, however these are the problems we still face: > > - If a user doesn't have the player installed, there will be a two-step > install process (one for the player, one for our app), which is sooo 90s > - We can't legally change the install location of the NPAPI plugin, so > if we automate downloads of the NPAPI FP10 and the user doesn't have > Mozilla > installed it's unclear what we should do > - Not sure if we can specify the kind of Player (NPAPI vs ActiveX) to > download from adobe.com if the user is on Windows > > Even for the base case (a user with Mozilla and the NPAPI FP10 plugin > installed prior to install of our app), should we talk this over with Adobe > legal? > > Has anyone heard of Adobe entering into custom licensing agreements for > this kind of thing (and I mean, actual bonafide true stories, not conjecture > based on Adobe's licensing page making passing reference)? > > Hope this hits someone's cache! > > Cheers, > Jules > -- > Jules Suggate > Owner and Technical Lead > Uphill Sprint Limited > > +64-21-157-8562 > >
