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February 19, 2013
Question

Loading time too long for my native application

  • February 19, 2013
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Hello,

I've built an exe width adt and i regret that there is no screen to inform the user while the application "preparing the installation" when you execute it as does the air application.

The problem is : when I executes the exe application , it seems that nothing happens for about ten seconds.

I use this syntax to build my app :

adt -package %OPTIONS% %SIGNING_OPTIONS% -target native [WINDOWS_INSTALLER_SIGNING_OPTIONS] %EXE_PATH%\%EXE_NAME%.exe %APP_XML% %FILE_OR_DIR%

Does adt, or Adobe offer a solution, that solve the problem ? (I'd like to avoid having to hack myself or with the help of a software like "Advance Installer" the installation of my app)

Thank a lot.

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chris.campbell
Legend
February 19, 2013

How large is the installer?  I suspect the delay is due to the self extraction taking place.

I took a look in our internal database and it appears we had something similar entered back in 2010 that was unfortunately deferred.  At this point, I'd recommend using a captive runtime and rolling your own installer with it's own UI.  The other alternative is to add a bug/feature request over at bugbase.adobe.com, then let the community know so that others can add comments and cast votes for it.

Thanks,

Chris

PoloMikeAuthor
Participant
February 20, 2013

It's a Desktop Application for Windows and the installer is a 184Mb Exe File (running on Windows 7), It took approximately 25-30 secondes after clicking before a window appears.

If the file is large as 502Mb it took 2min. I finally resigned for the moment to use the free solution NSIS developped by Nullsoft and it's seem to work perfectly, but the process for build is a little more cumbersome.

(For those interested I used : adt with -target bundle property for generate package contents for use with NSIS.)