Alex,
I can see their viewpoint. What would be handy instead, I suppose,
would be the ability to update an application without having to pull
over the entire AIR file - just update a certain resource in the
package. This would IMO provide a better user experience.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] AIR & Modules - I've hit a wall
The security folks have deemed that all modules must be
installed in the same AIR package as the application. SWFs from outside
the package are considered cross-domain and you can't import load them.
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Battershall, Jeff
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] AIR & Modules - I've hit a wall
Sorry for the cross-post, but I'm trying to get some more
exposure for
this issue in hopes of a resolution/workaround.
My desired deployment model for my AIR app is a shell app that
loads
Modules dynamically. What I'm running into is that the only
location
that AIR will let me load a module from is from the app-resource
directory. The problem here is that I cannot programmatically
update
modules, as I am not allowed to write to the app-resource
directory. And
any attempts to load my modules from a server fail with "SWF is
not a
loadable module". I've tried crossdomain.xml on the server side,
but no
dice. I've tried writing my modules to the app-storage
directory, which
I can do, but any attempts to load from this directory are met
with the
same error.
Why does crossdomain.xml fail? Is it because the AIR app doesn't
have a
domain per se? Tracing
ApplicationDomain.currentDomain.parentDomain
returns null.
It would be nice to have at least a workaround, and to know that
this is
a bug that will be addressed. All input appreciated.
Jeff Battershall
Application Architect
Dow Jones Indexes
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