AIR:Flash CS3 Professional Update

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1 Adobe AIR update beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional – Updated 12/14/07

1.1 System Requirements
1.2 Download and Install/Uninstall

1.2.1.1 French
1.2.1.2 German
1.2.1.3 Japanese
1.2.1.4 Other Languages (Manual Install)

1.3 Known Issues
1.4 Documentation
1.5 Feedback and Community

Adobe AIR update beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional – Updated 12/14/07

The Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) update beta 3 for Flash® CS3 Professional will allow you to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Flash CS3 Professional; leveraging your existing Flash development skills to build desktop-enabled distributed applications and experiences with the Adobe AIR™ framework.

System Requirements

The minimum system requirements for the Adobe AIR update for Flash CS3 Professional are:

Windows® XP sp2
Windows® Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit) editions.
Flash CS3 Professional

Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.4.x (Intel or PPC)
Flash CS3 Professional

Earlier versions of Flash are not supported with this update.

Download and Install/Uninstall

Download the Adobe® AIR™ runtime at the following link:

Download the Adobe AIR Installer

Once the runtime has been installed, download the Adobe AIR update beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional at the following link:

Macintosh
Download the Adobe AIR update beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional for Macintosh (49 MB)
Windows
Download the Adobe AIR update beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional for Windows (16 MB)
CleanUp Script
Download the beta 1 CleanUp Script(right click/cntrl click and saves as .jsfl) (1KB)

To install:

It is recommended that you uninstall some orphaned files from Beta 1 and Beta 2 that cannot be removed by the Beta 3 updater before installing Beta 3. Instructions for uninstalling Beta 1 and Beta 2 can be found below. If you don’t uninstall Beta 1, make sure to run the cleanup script after install to remove the orphaned files that might show up in the Commands menu.
Adobe Flash Player Update for Flash CS3 Professional (9.0.2) must be installed prior to the AIR Update Beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional. The Flash Player update can be downloaded from this location: http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html. For users of Flash CS3 Professional, this update will also be available via Adobe Update Manager in Flash CS3 Professional.
Double-click the installer file and follow the directions.

To Uninstall:

Macintosh

Browse to HD:/Applications/Adobe Flash CS3/ and delete AIK folder.
Browse to HD:/Applications/Adobe Flash CS3/First Run/Commands and delete the following files if they exist:
- - AIR - Application and Package Settings.jsfl
- - AIR - Package AIR File.jsfl
Browse to HD:/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS3/<lang>/Configuration/Commands/ and delete the following files if they exist:
- - AIR - Application and Package Settings.jsfl
- - AIR - Package AIR File.jsfl

Windows

Browse to (Windows) HD:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS3\ and delete AIK folder.
Browse to (Windows) HD:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS3\en\First Run\Commands\ and delete the following files if they exist:
- - AIR - Application and Package Settings.jsfl
- - AIR - Package AIR File.jsfl
Browse to HD:\Document and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\<lang>\Configuration\Commands\ and delete the following files if they exist:
- - AIR - Application and Package Settings.jsfl
- - AIR - Package AIR File.jsfl
- Notes: you need to turn "Show hidden files/folder" in folder options on if you do not see the specified location on Windows.

Please see the 'Feedback and Community' section below should you have problems installing the Adobe AIR update for Flash CS3 Professional.

International

The Adobe AIR update is also available for the following language versions of Flash CS3 Professional:

French

German

Japanese

Other Languages (Manual Install)

Macintosh
Download the Adobe AIR update beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional for Macintosh (48 MB)
Windows
Download the Adobe AIR update beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional for Windows (15 MB)

Known Issues

International:

This Beta 3 release is in the first stages of localization. You should expect to still see words in English as well as cosmetic issues such as alignment and truncations.
When encountering “An error occurred during installation. The Updater is unable to locate the product to be updated”, check to make sure the installer language matches the Flash language. AIR Update Beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional is not supported on languages other than English, French, German and Japanese. However, a zip file is provided in the International section that requires a manual installation. The AIR support UI will be in English. Please use it at your own risks.

Mac and Win:

When encounter “An error occurred during installation. The update cannot be applied to the product”, Adobe Flash Player Update for Flash CS3 Professional (9.0.2) must be installed prior to running the AIR Update Beta 3 for Flash CS3 Professional. See Download and Install/Uninstall for more information.
When testing a movie that contains AIR ActionScript API’s, you might encounter a compiler error that says the definition could not be found. This will only happen the first time test movie is used.
When testing your movie with trace, no output is sent in the output panel. Use debug movie to view trace statements.
Save as or moving fla file does not reset the application and installer settings properly and retains the previous fla settings. Use test movie to reset the swf file and application descriptor file.
To use flash.net classes, drag the ServiceMonitorShim components from AIR Service Monitor in the Components panel to the library.
Test/Debug movie and Create AIR File from the commands menu on the old AIR fla with settings from Beta 1 (M4) or Beta 2 (M5) fail due to application descriptor changes in M6. To regenate the file in M6 format, open the Application and Installer Settings from the Commands menu. You might lose the settings set in M4 and M5. Before opening the fla, rename the M4 or M5 application descriptor file and modify it to M6 format, then rename it back to swfname-app.xml.

Mac only:

There’s no error checking. When packaging fails, there’s no error dialog so it might appear as if the task succeeded.

Windows only:

ADL (AIR Debug launcher) might crash when testing movie on a swf that generates continuous trace. Use debug movie to test files with continuous trace.
AIR file fails to publish with an unclear error message when there are double byte characters in the swf path.

Things to watch out for that might cause packaging to fail:

Invalid characters in ID, file type name, file type extension fields.
Space, double byte characters or high ASCII characters in path or file name
Password does not match the selected digital certificate.
Icon size does not match the specified size.

Documentation

You can find Documentation on the Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) update for Flash CS3 Professional at the following links:

The Flash Adobe AIR ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference will be published at a later date. For now, for more information about new ActionScript APIs for Adobe AIR, see the Adobe AIR ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference for Flex.

Feedback and Community

For reporting bugs, problems or suggestions for the update, please use the AIR Forums. We also encourage you to post your general feedback and links to your projects!

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