Question

I’m building a desktop app using Flash Builder and I need it to run a .exe program. I downloaded and installed the latest AIR SDK, put it in my Flash Builder sdks folder and had my project use it. Now i don’t have any compiler errors, but:

     if(NativeProcess.isSupported)
            {
                var file:File = new File("C:\Torres.exe");
                var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();
                nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
                var process:NativeProcess = new NativeProcess();
                process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);
            }

I checked and it just never goes inside the if block. Why wouldn’t nativeprocess be supported? Any ideas?

Answer 1

Add this

<supportedProfiles>extendedDesktop</supportedProfiles>

to your app’s manifest file. Using NativeProcess requires extended rights.

The article is likely to be helpful: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/air_screenrecording.html