Flash-Network User Guide

A quick end-user guide to dealing with Flash Network.

First Time

  1. The first time you load a web page that uses Flash Player and you do not have the appropriate version of Flash Player installed, you will get a message as follows prompting you to install the missing plugn in your browser. Click on "Yes" to install the appropriate version of Flash Player to play the content.
    Alternatively, if the minimum version of Flash Player is not installed, then you will get a message as follows. Click on the "GET ADOBE FLASH PLAYER" button to download and install the latest version of Flash Player.
  2. The first time you load a web page that uses the Flash Network project and minimum version of Flash Player is installed, you will get a message as follows prompting you to install the missing Flash Network application. Click on "Yes" to install the application.
  3. Once you click on "Yes", it will try to install the AIR application. If Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) itself is not installed, it will first prompt you to install AIR. Click on "I Agree" to continue installation when prompted.
    If the web page cannot automatically launch the AIR installation, it will prompt you to download AIR directly from Adobe web site and install it. If you see the following prompt, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/getair to download and install it directly.
    Once AIR is installed, it will prompt you when finished as follows.
    Just click on "Finish" to continue. If you installed AIR directly from the link above then you need to refresh the web site that uses Flash Network to attempt connection again.
  4. Once you click on "Yes" to install the application, it will try to install the Flash Network AIR application. When prompted to open or save the file, click on "Open", as shown below.
    Once downloaded, AIR will further prompt you with more threatening messages as shown below. Since we do not have commercial certificates you will see "Publisher Identity" as UNKNOWN. Click on "Install" and "Continue" when prompted as follows.
  5. Your browser may also prompt you about security risk in opening a downloaded file. Click on "open" when prompted as follows.
  6. This will install and run the Flash Network Application. The web site will connect to the application after some time and continue. The application keeps running until you quit it or restart your machine.

After Reboot

  1. When you load a web page that uses the Flash Network project, and the Flash Network application is installed but not running, you will get a message as follows prompting you to run the application. Click on "Yes" to launch the application.
  2. Once you click on "Yes", the application is launched from the browser. The web page will connect to the application after some time and continue. The application keeps running until you quit it or restart your machine.
  3. The AIR application automatically detects any update to AIR as well as the Flash Network application. If an updated version of AIR is available, you will be prompted as follows. You will need to close any existing running AIR application to "Update Now".
    Alternatively, if you click on "Update Later", the next time an AIR application is launched, it will prompt you about the update as follows. Just click on "Update" to proceed with the update.

Every Time

  1. Every time you use a web page that uses the Flash Network project, and the web page tries to connect to the Flash Network application, you will be prompted to allow or deny the access to the web page. There are two prompts as shown below: the left one is shown in your web page in the browser and the right one is shown in the desktop on top-right corner by the application.
  2. For one time authorization or denial, you can click on "Allow" or "Deny" to allow this access. When you click on any of these, both the prompts will disappear. When the next time this web page is loaded, it will prompt you again for access control; the authorization is not saved.
  3. For permanent authorization of this web page, you check to "Remember", enter the numeric password displayed on the right prompt in the edit box of the left prompt, and click on "OK". This saves the authorization of this web page (which is localhost:8080 in the example) to always allow access. Next time when this web page is loaded, it will not prompt you for access control; the authorization is saved. If you check to remember, and then click on "Allow" or "Deny" then the remember check has no effect.
  4. If you do not respond to the authorization request within one minute, the request times out and the web page cannot access the Flash Network project anymore. You can re-attempt the connection by right click on the web page prompt area, and click on "Reconnect" from the context menu.
  5. It is possible to clean up and remove all authorizations. Right click on the system tray icon or the dock icon for Flash Network to launch the context menu. Then click on "Remove Stored Auth" to clear the the authorizations. The clean up is affected for subsequent access and not for existing ongoing web pages.

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