I’ve got a solution similar to this, but I’ve also integrated online/offline notification in to this. When the app pings my server to check if it’s online/offline, it also checks the version and updates if necessary.

Very cool.

Thanks for your comments.

Very cool indeed!

One caveat though - if you move the application from the default installation folder (~/Applications on Mac OS X) into another folder the update will fail. The updated application will be installed in the default location, and the “old” application will then be relaunched - making it appear that it hasn’t updated at all - and leaving you with two different versions of the same application in two different locations!

Hey, the download links aren’t working, I was really looking forward to seeing the code for this,
Please send me an email if you fix it!

The link has bad case, it links to “Apollo”, when it should be “apollo”

Thanks!

Sorry, I recently switched to a Linux box. It is fixed now.

It would be really awesome if there was an example of a self-updating HTML based AIR app? I’m building AIR apps using HTML/JS and would really like to take advantage of the same update feature.

Might you be updating your source code for the AIR beta? I try including your source code in my app and when I try & run it in Flex 3 Beta, I get an error of this:

1136: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 2.

It’s talking about the last line in this section:

// Handle CLOSE Event when file write has completed and call update to update application install
private function fileClosed(event:Event):void {
var updater:Updater = new Updater();
var airFile:File = File.desktopDirectory.resolve(this.latestFileName);
The line causing the error –> updater.update(airFile);

If you could at least suggest to me how to fix it, that be awesome as I could really use this in my app.

I will when I get a chance. In the mean time you can check out this site:
http://merhl.com/?p=32

Thanks for the article.I just got an idea of using this feature for my applications.There are many things which should be taken care of before updating an application.
thanks,it looks every body is now thinking for self updating application.

Take a look at my newer version at:
http://blog.everythingflex.com/2007/10/01/air-update-manager/

cann’t use for 1.1

No, this was Apollo code. Check here for AIR code:
http://blog.everythingflex.com/air-central/everythingflexair1swc/updatemanager/

hello everythingflex~

think u for your answer.

when i use your swc,
there is a error:
1120: 访问的属性 um 未定义。

so bizarrerie~~

my code:

import com.everythingflex.air.managers.UpdateManager;
private var um:UpdateManager = new UpdateManager(”http://……./prototype/version.xml”,true);
um.currentVersion=”.2″;

if i don’t use the currentVersion property,
it can check & download the new version,
but when installing, a error occur:
This application cannot be installed because this installer has been mis-configured. Please contact the application author for assistance.