Ah, apologies. The URL needs to be specified in the Map component.
I've pasted this from the docs:
<maps:Map xmlns:maps="com.google.maps.*" id="map"
mapevent_mapready="onMapReady(event)" width="100%" height="100%"
url="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/"; key="your_api_key"/>
More info here:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/tutorial-flexbuilder.html#AIRDevelopment
- pamela
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Marc Sutton<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Pamela,
>
> The url is of the form app:/reprieve/content/maps when it is called
> within Air - when I load the same swf in a web page the url is of the
> form http://www.reprieve.org.uk/rep... and so works with the key I am
> using.
>
> The same goes for using the javascript api when trying to use it in an
> Air/Ajax app. Is there any way of getting a key for a app:/ url or
> getting the maps API to notice the url parameter with the url to the
> application download (as it seems to if I compile it as a standalone
> Air/flex app)?
>
> --
> Marc Sutton
> www.codev.co.uk
>
> On Jul 30, 2:41 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hey Marc-
>>
>> If you can check the HTTP headers that are being sent when the AIR app
>> loads, you should be able to see the URL parameter that the SWF sends
>> for key checking. Not sure which headers app is the best for seeing
>> AIR requests, however.
>>
>> - pamela
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Marc Sutton<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks Juguang but it still isn't working for me.
>>
>> > If I compile it as a standalone Flex application and put it in a web
>> > page it works. If I change it to a WindowedApplication and compile it
>> > with the Air profile it works as a standalone application.
>>
>> > But no matter what I do it won't work as an swf component embedded in
>> > an Air Ajax application; it always displays the "Initialization
>> > failed" message. Is there any way of finding out what url the api is
>> > expecting to get for the given key? I suspect that might be the
>> > problem. I can't even get it to work in debug mode where it displays
>> > an overlay.
>>
>> > Any help would be appreciated,
>>
>> > --
>> > Marc Sutton
>> >www.codev.co.uk
>>
>> > On Jul 28, 3:16 pm, Juguang XIAO <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hi Marc,
>>
>> >> Have you tried it with Flex on your local machine? I did not use Maps API
>> >> with Air, so I cannot help so much. However, i suggest you first need to
>> >> verify whether your key is correct, through testing it in Flex on your
>> >> local
>> >> machine.
>>
>> >> Juguang
>>
>> >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Marc Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> > We are developing an Adobe Air application. The Air app uses html with
>> >> > swf (compiled with flex) embedded inside it.
>>
>> >> > I'm trying to use the Google Maps for Flash API to embed a map but I
>> >> > always get the message "Initialization failed: please check the API
>> >> > key, swf location, version and network availability.". I have tried
>> >> > setting the key and url values of the mxml to every possible value. I
>> >> > suspect that because the application is not Windowed (as it is hosted
>> >> > inside an air html app) the Google API is looking for a key with a url
>> >> > corresponding to app:/ (the Adobe Air filesystem uri).
>>
>> >> > How can I debug this problem? Is there a call I can make to display
>> >> > the url that the key must correspond to? Or is there a way of setting
>> >> > url to point to the application download and authorising it that way?
>>
>> >> > Many thanks,
>>
>> >> > --
>> >> > Marc Sutton
>> >> >www.codev.co.uk
>>
>> >> --
>> >> =============
>> >> Juguang XIAO
>> >> Beijing, China
> >
>
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