My suspicion is that there are some serious challenges here. First, getting the operating system to launch the air application based on clicking on a link. I think most operating systems map http links to the default browser, mailto links to the default a mail client, etc. There may be a way to add new mappings, but I don't know what it is. Unless you can find a way for the air application to tell the operating system how to map a link to your air application, I don't see how this would work. Presumably, you would need something unique about the link which the operating system would use for this purpose.
Second, if you did get the operating system to launch the application, it would then need some way to pass in the video id to the launched application. I'm not sure if there is a way to set up air applications so they receive commandline parameters, but I think you would need that, or something like that. What seems much more likely to work is giving people a text input field where they can paste in the URL, and parsing it to extract the video id which the air application could then display. Needless to say, it would probably be easiest to just give people a video id input field, and include a line in your email along these lines: "if you already have the video player application installed, enter the following id on the video retrieval screen: idNumber." ----- Original Message ---- From: rin_boating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:20:03 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Passing variables into your AIR application from a website? Pardon the cross post Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone can advise me on the possibilities of this functionality: I have an AIR application that is used to play videos. I'm storing the videos remotely and then calling them through several methods defined in my application. The videos are also all located on my website for quick access (in the event that a person does not have the AIR application installed). Right now, inside my AIR application, users can pick their video, and then e-mail it to themselves, their friends, etc. When a user e-mails it to a friend, I am simply sending the user a link to my website with the appropriate video. I need to know if the following things are possible (and to what extent): 1. Is it possible to link directly from any HTML compliant area to my AIR application (if the user has my AIR application downloaded), with a video directly tied in that link? (e.g. through like a URL parameter) Purpose: This would allow my users to click on http://www.mywebsit e.com/my_ Air_app_extensio n/user_video_ id Which in turn would allow my users to start up my AIR application with their video selected instead of starting at the default Welcome page of my AIR application. If you have any other thoughts on how to accomplish this functionality, please advise. Thank you
