Hi Andrew, I'm a bit confused here with your email. Do you mean that AIR apps in 2021 will not be able to render Flash/Flex apps? I think many people count on that.
Thanks El jue., 11 jun. 2020 a las 21:58, Frost, Andrew (<andrew.fr...@harman.com>) escribió: > Hi all > > Yes, using AIR to load some HTML content is still supported although the > WebKit version in AIR is around 10 years old (we've been asked to update it > to a more recent version - which could be quite a large job, and it's not > clear whether this is actually widely used any more..) > > Brian is quite right though. The issue will be that AIR doesn't ship with > the Flash Player, it ships with some placeholders now which would take you > to the Adobe "download Flash Player" page, and of course this is > disappearing in the new year. The WebKit engine would work with the NPAPI > version of Flash Player if you do have this installed, but this isn't > something you should bank on for long term usage and isn't something that > can (legally) be copied. See > https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html for a recent > update. > > We have some additional rights from Adobe that allow us to provide the > Flash Player - with a number of terms and conditions attached - for some > specific use cases, which can give people some additional breathing space > to continue migrating their applications. But this is a commercial > offering, we have some details available on our website and are planning to > update this further in the next few weeks (after a few more announcements > from relevant parties have been made). For the general public and any home > user, you really shouldn't expect them to have the ability to view general > Flash-based content from next year (unless of course you switch to > deploying it as an AIR application!) > > thanks > > Andrew > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> > Sent: 11 June 2020 17:40 > To: users@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Keeping user applications up to date in AIR. > > Hi, > > It would be wise to test on a clean machine and consider how you will get > the Flash Player in the future as I don't think Adobe will be providing > them. Harman might. > > It's been a long time since I've dealt with these sort of issues and I > think there may have been additional security restrictions added in AIR > since, but I thought that folks had successfully used a Flex/AIR shell to > load code modules from the network. > > HTH, > -Alex > > On 6/10/20, 10:26 AM, "Brian Raymes" <brian.ray...@teotech.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am interested in a work-around as well, but unless I'm mistaken, the > solution below may not work at the end of the year given a change to AIR > starting in version 22? > > "Starting in AIR 22, applications that play swf content via the HTML > control (WebKit) will now load the system level NPAPI Flash Player provided > by Adobe ( > https://clicktime.symantec.com/3VPJfW8zgdNptNyqxdTCXxZ7Vc?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fget.adobe.com%252Fflashplayer%26data%3D02%257C01%257Caharui%2540adobe.com%257C9eea501409b94b4c598e08d80d635f6c%257Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%257C0%257C0%257C637274067748313564%26sdata%3DqxHnFxYlktD8GXnl909Ki662ALtZtHYeyEBFISiIq3Q%253D%26reserved%3D0). > If this plugin is not available on the system, the end user will be > prompted to download and install the plugin from Adobe." > > Source: > https://clicktime.symantec.com/3NGtxWnAcgo3uVMsnqE5YfQ7Vc?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fhelpx.adobe.com%252Fflash-player%252Frelease-note%252Ffp_22_air_22_release_notes.html%26data%3D02%257C01%257Caharui%2540adobe.com%257C9eea501409b94b4c598e08d80d635f6c%257Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%257C0%257C0%257C637274067748313564%26sdata%3DwcwY4T3y%252BXHZuBGCs%252BMVA0FTWpwsnqSHubIorghT3Uk%253D%26reserved%3D0 > > If the plugin is to be removed from browsers, will the solution below > continue to work? Will Flash still be available to install separately? > Could it be as simple as holding onto a legacy NPAPI installer? > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paulus de B. <w.p.stuur...@knollenstein.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 2:04 AM > To: users@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Keeping user applications up to date in AIR. > > Hi Paul, > > We actually had the exact same setup in that we had an swf application > we needed to continue using after browsers stopped supporting flash. > > What we did for the time being (but works very well): create an AIR > application that uses the flex HTML control to load your swfs like you did > in the browser. > > Create a WindowedApplication (Flex) with just one control in it: > <controls:HTML id="htmlControl" width="100%" height="100%" > horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" /> > > On the creationComplete > // Load your web application > htmlControl.location = "https://app...";; > > In the end we did add the AIR updating functionality, but only for > updating the AIR app (which rarely happens). The swfs are loaded / reloaded > like the were in the browser. > > Cheers > > Paulus > > > > -- > Sent from: > https://clicktime.symantec.com/3RZHoU2z9UZpGA8ahHcMKkM7Vc?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fapache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com%252F%26data%3D02%257C01%257Caharui%2540adobe.com%257C9eea501409b94b4c598e08d80d635f6c%257Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%257C0%257C0%257C637274067748313564%26sdata%3DvDXzfC0pZMJOH4HuH32wzSDKBAJzO%252BPFxaW9bEIhaG0%253D%26reserved%3D0 > > -- Carlos Rovira http://about.me/carlosrovira
