Comments on: AIR Install Badge Issues

By: Cristobal Gana

Cristobal Gana — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:07:35 +0000

SOLUTION OK FOR THIS ISSUE:

I had the same issue when trying to install Prezi.air

Then, all u’ve to do is:
* double click on the *.air file
* select the option: “chose the program from a list”
* search in the next path:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0
and associate the *.air to the “Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe”.

that’s it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:28:17 +0000

Thanks for the tips guys. The suggested fix that Oliver linked to seems to have worked (and magically, a few other problems that I’ve been experiencing are fixed too). This looks like Vista’s fault to me, but it’s too bad because I can see this causing a lot of tech support nightmares for AIR developers…

By: Harun Hasdal

Harun Hasdal — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:21:46 +0000

Hi Ryan,

The fix in the link above which Oliver Goldman posted works just fine. But here is a little trick to get the air file if you want.

View source of the html page that shows the install badge. In the source of the html document you’ll find a block of javascript
code. Looks like

var so = new SWFObject(“AIRInstallBadge.swf”, “Badge”, “215″, “180″, “9.0.115″, “#FFFFFF”);
so.useExpressInstall(‘expressinstall.swf’);
…..

And there is a variable passed to the SWFObject which contains the location of the .air file. Something like this:

so.addVariable(“appurl”, “http://host.com/path/someapp.air”);

So you can browse the url, download and run the installer yourself.
Hope this is helpful.

By: Oliver Goldman

Oliver Goldman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:24:47 +0000

We (the AIR team) have seen these symptoms before on certain Vista machines with incorrect registry permission settings. This glitch affects all applications, not just AIR, but it is unfortunate that it happens to impact the badge install.

The best description of this issue that I’ve seen yet, along with instructions for fixing it, are at http://www.brianpeek.com/blog/archive/2007/11/29/weird-vista-registry-issue.aspx.