Restart an Adobe AIR Application with Code!

Daan

Published: 05 October 2009 9:00 PM UTCPosted in: ActionScript, Air, Flash, Flex, Web ApplicationsTags: Air, Code, Flash, Flex, Reboot, Restart Application

Restart an Adobe AIR Application with Code!

For a smaller project, I needed to find a way to restart my Adobe AIR application, this had to be invoked by itself …
After some research I found a working examples, thanks to Flex Internals.

[code lang="actionscript"]
import mx.core.Application;
import mx.core.WindowedApplication;
import adobe.utils.ProductManager;

public function restart():void
{
var app:WindowedApplication = WindowedApplication(Application.application);
var mgr:ProductManager = new ProductManager("airappinstaller");
mgr.launch("-launch " + app.nativeApplication.applicationID + " " + app.nativeApplication.publisherID);
app.close();
}
[/code]

Just make sure your “allowBrowserInvocation” option is turned on (value to true) in AIR application descriptor template
[code lang="actionscript"]
true
[/code]

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5 Comments

Luke McSorley

Posted November 12, 2010 at 5:26 PM

Hi man, cheers for the code it worked a treat for me. I had to change it slightly for flash and thought it maybe useful for some people. Heres what i did.

the code is basicly the same, only dif is you wont have the “mx.core.WindowedApplication” libray to import. so instead do this:

var mgr:ProductManager = new ProductManager("airappinstaller");
mgr.launch("-launch " + NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationID + " " + NativeApplication.nativeApplication.publisherID);
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();

you will need to include:

import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;

in your imports.

Then look were your airfiles are being created and you will see a file called ["name of your air file"]-app.xml . open this and as mentiond before make sure that false is set to true:

<allowBrowserInvocation>true</allowBrowserInvocation>

Insert Code here

Insert Code here
Shai Rosenfeld

Posted February 19, 2011 at 2:07 AM

This may be obvious to some, but it’s important:

Put this in the mxml/main of the application; it won’t work if you use that block of code in an external actionscript custom class you create.
cbrown

Posted August 21, 2011 at 9:44 PM

Works for me on both osx 10.6.8 and windows 7 with an air app from flash pro using the above code from Luke…

…UNLESS… an flvplayback component loads a video! After that, it will only close and not restart. I’ve tried everything under the sun to destroy the video/component before the restart to no avail. Any suggestions are very appreciated, thanks.
carlara

Posted August 23, 2011 at 10:00 PM

same for me it works in both 10.6 and windows 7. hopefully it works on XP??
SnakeMedia

Posted January 19, 2012 at 1:19 PM

Ehh? That is an error What is a fuck now? Adobe Air can not work on Adobe Air 3.1 I will reboot this Adobe Air App

Look at my picture
My picture Adobe Air reboot – Error

and i have been coded this with Flex 4.6 and Adobe Air 3.1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<fx:Declarations>

</fx:Declarations>

<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[

import sm.flash.desktop.NativeApplication.Reboot;

protected function restartClick():void
{
sm.flash.desktop.NativeApplication.Reboot();
}

]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:Button x="10" y="10" label="Neustarten" click="restartClick()"/>
</s:WindowedApplication>

and I have been created this library for Reboot Class:

/**
*
* Reboot of Air App
*
*/
package sm.flash.desktop.NativeApplication
{
import adobe.utils.ProductManager;

import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;

import spark.components.Application;
import spark.components.WindowedApplication;

public function Reboot():void
{
var app:WindowedApplication = WindowedApplication(Application);

var mgr:ProductManager = new ProductManager("airappinstaller");
mgr.launch("-launch " + NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationID + " " + NativeApplication.nativeApplication.publisherID);
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
}
}

And app-xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.1">




<id>Test.Restart</id>


<filename>Test_Restart</filename>


<name>Test_Restart</name>


<versionNumber>0.0.0</versionNumber>














<initialWindow>


<content>[Dieser Wert wird von Flash Builder in der app.xml-Ausgabedatei überschrieben]</content>


























































<autoOrients>false</autoOrients>
<fullScreen>false</fullScreen>
<visible>false</visible>
</initialWindow>





















<allowBrowserInvocation>true</allowBrowserInvocation>











































</application>

How do i fix this reboot

thanks for support and help