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APPENDIX AAPPENDIX A

AIR Command-Line Tools

The AIR SDK provides the following command-line tools:

ADL
Use this tool to launch and test an AIR application with-
out having to install it.

ADT
Use this tool to package an AIR application into a redis-
tributable AIR file.

This Appendix lists the options for each of the command-line
tools.

For an example of using these tools, see Chapter 2.

ADL

ADL is a command-line tool that launches an AIR applica-
tion, based on its application descriptor file, without requir-
ing that the application be installed. This is useful for testing
and debugging the application.

Typically, you want to call the ADL tool passing one parame-
ter: the path to the application descriptor file (the applica-
tion.xml file):

adl application.xml

The full syntax of the ADL command is:

adl ( -runtime <path-to-runtime-dir> )? <path-to-app-xml>

<path-to-root-dir>? ( -- ... )?