I’ll see if we can do that. Note however that this method of communication only works with SWFs built for Flash 9 and greater.

-James

I did have one specific questions however. In the SWFLoader example, you are communicating with an embedded SWF in a much more simplified manner than other examples I have seen. I don’t fully understand it however, and was wondering if you could include the source for the embedded SWF as well.

Thanks!
Patrick

I have resolved the matter and I’m very pleased to let you know that this was not an Adobe issue. Norton Internet Security was apparently blocking calls to adobe’s website. Not sure why but I suspect it was initially blocked when Adobe Updater first ran.

Thank you for your assistance and quick turnarounds. Now that this has been resolved, I feel much better directing my team to moving ahead with Adobe Flex / Flash / Air development! :)

Peter

Well it is good that you are seeing “ping” in your browser. Was that in IE?

Yes, both Tour de Flex and AMP use AIR. So it seems there is some networking problem with AIR. There are support forums on Adobe’s website that might help. To me this seems like an issue with AIR’s networking setup – which I thought used IE’s networking settings. So if things work in IE then they should work in AIR apps. If you have Flex Builder installed you can create a quick AIR app that just uses an HTML control to render a web page and see if that works – or just navigate to the HTML example in Tour de Flex. That will narrow down the problem a bit.

-James

When I access that URL, it displays the word “ping” in my browser. I’m not using a proxy. OS is Windows XP SP 3.

Like I mentioned, AMP also thinks it is offline. Both apps use air (correct me if I’m wrong), so I’m wondering if it’s something wrong with Air? If so, how could I test / verify? I uninstalled Air 1.5 and reinstalled – nothing changed.

Thanks again for the assist.

Tour de Flex pings http://tourdeflex.adobe.com/ping.html every two seconds to determine whether it’s online or offline. Can you verify that you can access that URL in your browser? If you have a proxy server make sure it’s configured. What OS do you use?

-James

On a related note, Adobe AMP is giving a similar situation and keeps insisting that it’s offline.

Is it related to Air 1.5? I installed that before downloading Tour De Flex and AMP.

Any help is appreciated.

Instructions are on the Tour de Flex web page:
http://flex.org/tour

-James

how can i install the ‘tour de flex eclipse plugin’ on flex builder 3. please help me!!

Great work!! This is an excellent resource. Thanks again!

Dipock