Question

I would like to press a button from an Adobe AIR application and execute some installed program. For example, I would have a button named ‘Start Winamp’. When this is pressed it should start Winamp.exe directly…I don’t want some command line thing executed, I only want an exe to start. Or…is it the same thing ? Please, let me know if this is possible.

Thank you.

Answer 1

There’s no direct way of doing it. Try CommandProxy.

Read the blog post very carefully. You really need to create two different projects: a native OS executable and an AIR app. The native executable fires up your AIR application. The AIR application in turn requests for the executable to process OS-level requests.

Download the source from Google Code and create two projects — a Visual Studio/Mono for the sample C# exe and another — for the AIR application. Here is a link that describes how to set up the former.

In your AIR app’s main MXML file, you need to do the following:

• Create a CommandProxy object, add a few event listeners, for connection detection, and Command response and error.

• Connect to the native exe via a connect call

• In the event handler for connect, create a new Command e.g. ScreenshotCommand and execute it (via CommandProxy.execute method)

… and that’s it!

Hope this helps.