How to restart a standalone Adobe Air/Flex application

Question

How can I get a standalone Adobe Air/Flex application to restart itself?

It doesn\'t work with the suggested solution on: http://www.colettas.org/?p=267.

An

Answer 1

Hello dear i have been fixed this methode for Flex 4.6

package
{
    import adobe.utils.ProductManager;

    import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;

    import mx.core.FlexGlobals;
    import spark.components.WindowedApplication;

    public function Reboot():void
    {
        var app:WindowedApplication = WindowedApplication(FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication);

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

Answer 2

package
{
  import mx.core.Application;
  import mx.core.WindowedApplication;
  import adobe.utils.ProductManager;

  public function reboot():void
  {
    var app:WindowedApplication =
        WindowedApplication(Application.application);

    var mgr:ProductManager =
        new ProductManager("airappinstaller");

    mgr.launch("-launch " +
        app.nativeApplication.applicationID + " " +
        app.nativeApplication.publisherID);

    app.close();
  }
}

Also make sure that the “allowBrowserInvocation” option is turned on in the AIR application descriptor template

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