Good question. As I haven't installed our app in quite some time, you could go to www.flypaper.com and install the demo to see what it looks like (just make sure you remove your ActiveX player before you run the installer). Steve
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Jules Suggate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi guys, sorry about my slow response. I was enjoying my weekend :) > > We have decided to continue on this line of inquiry, partly due to your > answers. > > Steve, you mentioned kicking of a silent install of the Player if it's not > found. How "silent" can you make it? From memory, the player install > sequence has a few dialog boxes and progress bars... is the distributable > installer sequence less obvious, or are these dialogs just part of the > overall installation "experience" for your users? > > We'd be happy enough with the latter, but the former would be even better > :-) > > Thanks again! > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 07:12, Steve Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well it was less than great because someone here applied online several >> times but could not actually get the installer. Then we had a chat with Lee >> Brimelow (http://theflashblog.com/) <http://theflashblog.com/>, he passed >> our request on and we got the installer within a day or two. So I would >> recommend talking to him or another evangelist to help the process. >> >> Steve >> >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Jim Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> How easy was it to get the licence to distribute the flash player? >>> >>> Anecdotally, I'd heard this was rather hard to do in practice, but maybe >>> this has changed since I last enquired a couple of years back. >>> >>> This has always been a stumbling block for various solutions I've tried >>> over the years. >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On >>> Behalf Of *Steve Mathews >>> *Sent:* 21 November 2008 15:48 >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in >>> England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th >>> Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. >>> VAT registration No. 648874577. >>> >>> This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. 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