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20 Responses to “Custom ApplicationUpdaterUI for using AIR Update Framework in Flex 4”

1. Jesse Lundberg Says:
   September 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   Just got the email notification from JIRA – I had actually started something like this myself but hadn’t found the time to complete it. Thanks to your effort, it appears it will no longer be necessary! Many thanks for posting this.

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3. ali Says:
   September 9th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

   Dude, great job…thx

4. Ramón Helena Says:
   September 10th, 2009 at 8:44 am

   Jens,

   Hello Jeans, oh really cool,

   Thanks for share this useful tool.

   Let´s make a Skin gallery for enhanced it.

   Keep on,

   Viele Grüße,

   Ramón

5. Custom AIR updater interface using ApplicationUpdater — Thanks, Mister! Says:
   September 14th, 2009 at 3:22 am

   [...] application restarts and displaying additional update information. I found another good example by Jens Krause, but this example is for Flex 4. I needed something that would work for Flex 3. So here is what I [...]

6. yigit Says:
   September 17th, 2009 at 12:36 am

   hi, nice job but it is not working with SDK build: 7219 .

   what version do u have ? (it does not recognize s:Label

7. yigit Says:
   September 17th, 2009 at 1:24 am

   hmm, I’ve downloaded nightly build 10288 and it is working.

   thnks again for the great job!

8. rich Says:
   October 9th, 2009 at 11:18 pm

   Hey, very cool that you put this together…running into a problem though, with the latest SDK (beta 2)….

   ArgumentError: Undefined state ‘normalAndInactive’.

   in UIComponent.getState().

   Looks like they changed some naming convention internally. Any idea how to fix?

9. sectore Says:
   October 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am

   @rich: Which skin are you using? At a current project (AIR 1.5.2 + Flex 4 – SDK 4.0.0.10396) I’ve been using the AppUpdaterUIStandardSkin and it works like a charme…

   -Jens

10. obi Says:
    November 5th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    Really cool impl. 10x for sharing it
    Btw I’ve forked your git project and made some fixes including compile support for Flash Builder and some skins modifications which can be found at http://github.com/outbounder/applicationupdaterui
    (used github hardcore fork option )

11. Greg Wilson Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 1:48 am

    This seems to have stopped working as of Flex SDK build #11810. I’ve also tried with today’s 11824.

    It might be the underlying ApplicationUpdater – I haven’t had a chance to test yet.

    Greg
    http://GregsRamblings.com

12. sectore Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    Thanks for your advice, Greg!

    There was an issue to set a custom skin class using if( getStyle('skinClass') == undefined ) setStyle("skinClass", AppUpdaterUIStandardSkin); using the latest Flex SDK 4.0.0.11824. So the standard skin (SkinnableContainerSkin) of a SkinnableContainer, which is extended by my custom ApplicationUpdaterUI, was used, not the AppUpdaterUIStandardSkin…

    Anyway, this issue is fixed now and the source code has been updated for using latest Flex SDK 4.0.0.11824. Check it out: http://github.com/sectore/applicationupdaterui/

    -Jens

13. Dorian Says:
    December 6th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    In the meantime Adobe has released a new official ApplicationUpdaterUI SWC for the AIR 2.0 SDK, but it doesn’t seem to work with AIR 1.5 projects. So your solution is still very valuable! Thanks!

14. Habib Ullah Bahar Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 9:57 pm

    Hello, I got this error.

    Please help me.

    ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property initialized not found on spark.primitives.Rect and there is no default value.
    at de.websector.utils.updater.ui.skins.standard::AppUpdaterUIStandardSkin/_AppUpdaterUIStandardSkin_Rect1_i()

15. sectore Says:
    February 3rd, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    Habib, are you using Flex 4 SDK build 13553 or higher?

    -Jens

16. Hendrik Says:
    February 4th, 2010 at 11:40 am

    Hi,

    first of all – great work

    But, for me it doesn’t work correct.

    I want to try out your class with a basic code like:

    private var updater:ApplicationUpdaterUI

    protected function init():void
    {
    Alert.show(“Init”);
    updater = new ApplicationUpdaterUI( new File(“app:/config/updateConfig.xml”), true, true);

    updater.setStyle(‘skinClass’, AppUpdaterUIStandardSkin);
    updater.windowHeight = 300;
    updater.windowWidth = 500;

    updater.addEventListener(UpdateEvent.INITIALIZED, listener);
    updater.initialize();

    }

    protected function listener( event:UpdateEvent ):void
    {
    Alert.show(“Listener”);
    updater.checkNow();
    }

    But nothing happens.
    Any idea?
    (Of course the “Alter.show(“init”) is put out.

    greets

17. sectore Says:
    February 5th, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    Hendrik,

    you don’t need to add an event listener to UpdateEvent.INITIALIZED to call updater.checkNow(); It will be handled by ApplicationUpdaterUI.as (line 455) itself: http://github.com/sectore/applicationupdaterui/blob/master/src/de/websector/utils/updater/ui/ApplicationUpdaterUI.as#L455

    Call it right after instantiating ApplicationUpdaterUI. Check the posted example above

    -Jens

18. Nilesh Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    You seem to using local location for update.xml. What if I need to store the update.xml on remote server and AutoUpdater shall refer that URL to check if new version is available.

    –
    N

19. sectore Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    @Nilesh: There is no difference compared to the standard way of Adobes ApplicationUpdater. Just one local xml file used as a configuration file (check example at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/air/update/ApplicationUpdaterUI.html#configurationFile) and one remote xml file “update.xml”, which is hosted anywhere on your server and which implements all information about the update.

    -Jens

20. Nilesh Says:
    February 20th, 2010 at 11:32 am

    @sectore : I agree. I wanted to somehow specify remote URL in AppUpdaterUI constructor itself and it doesn’t seem to be working. Thats fine, now I am using config.xml in constructor which in turn will have updateURL value for remote update.xml.

    I guess original AppUpdaterUI had updateURL value which can be set to remote URL instead of going through usage of configuration file.

    Thanks for responding anyways !

    There was another problem which @Habib mentioned above and that is not a valid if I use latest SDK. The SDK which comes along with FlashBuilder beta2 (10485)version is will have that issue.

    –
    Nilesh

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