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Hi Dave,
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I got some mini test on Attest 2.0.
First of all I had to I had to pay you a lot of compliments for the great job you’ve done in the latest Attest version.
This is so useful to me
The best occasion I can train myself is in underground or in train during the home-company commuting. There I have no connection available. So my improvement suggestion is to create a no-connection version of the tests, keeping updateable as it is now but downloadable also. That would be perfect.
The second is a mistake I’ve found in a question about service, the 14th in mini 3: ‘True or False. Given the following the following line of code where myService is a previously defined HTTPService object, and GetWeather an operation of it, the lastResult object will be correctly bound to the text area when the service result is received’
HTTPservice component is used with no operation, So in the current way the answer would be ‘false’. The question-answer you gave would match better if you refer to WebService (or RemoteObject alternatively) instead of HTTPService.
Third: some weeks ago I send you some Q&A about AIR. Did you see it?
your grateful
dan
Hey Daniele,
Good call on the errata, it’s fixed now. Must be one of those late nights when we were writing questions
I did get your email a while back, Outlook says I replied back on 1/23/2009 at 1:10PM but I can’t find the original reply.
The suggestion for the disconnected version is something we definitely want to work into Attest. Have it check periodically for updates, download any updates, store them locally so users don’t have to always be connected. That’s on our todo list for sure, for now we just wanted to get the strongest material out for people to study with, and future versions are going to have tons more.
One of the features Holly and I want to work in is a Community aspect to the app, and users could submit questions/answers of their own for part of the “learning Flex” area. So that’ll be great if you have some Q/A’s to submit, just let me know.
When updating from 3.3 to 3.5 I get the message “Sorry, an error has occurred. This application cannot be installed because this installer has been mis-configured. Please contact the application author for assistance.”
I tried a manual install and it also failed. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling. I have this app installed on 3 computers, the limit for authorization. I hope that uninstalling/reinstalling won’t cause authentication problems.
This machine has AIR v2.5.1.17730.
BTW, I just tried updating ADC Desktop (another AIR app) and it worked fine.
Mike
Uninstall / reinstall worked.
I then tried to report a bug from Help / About, but got the message “It appears you entered an invalid email address. Click here to go back.”
The email address was fine; the validator is in error. Clicking on the message “Click here to go back” does nothing. Clicking on “<< Back" does not go back, it goes instead to the Help / About screen, not the bug report screen.
The bug that I was trying to report is that Help / About does not display the product version.
Mike
@Mike,
Not sure why the upgrade error happened. Attest uses the Adobe InMarket licensing software, so the update xml and .air files are on their servers. The ADC Desktop app doesn’t make use of the InMarket licensing, so its upgrade process is standard for AIR apps.
For future reference, you can always log into the Adobe site to activate/deactivate copies of Attest. The software is activated automatically via Adobe’s servers. If you download a new copy of Attest on a new machine, then hit the green “purchase” button and log in to the Adobe site, it should automatically activate, or give you the option to deactivate all copies and reactive them individually.
For the bug report form in the help section on Attest, I updated it to point to the one on pxldesigns.com instead of the old 3rd party script that was there before.
The version number on About will be added to a future version. Back link is now Home link to clarify.
When I try to install Attest3.3 in windows7, it shows “Sorry, an error has occurred. This application requires an update to Adobe Air but downloading that update was not successful.”
My machine has air version 2.5.1.17730
Why this error occurred?
@Bhargavi, you need to install AIR 3.0 or higher in order to run Attest 3.3. You can download AIR 3.2 here http://get.adobe.com/air/