Adobe AIR to execute program

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 pres

Answer 1

AIR 2.0 will have this capability.

It's expected to come out in beta by year end (2009) and ship first half of 2010.

http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2009/10/previewing_adobe_air_2_at_adob.html

Native process API Beginning with AIR 2, developers will have access to a native process API that will enable applications to invoke and communicate with native applications on the local machine. In order to preserve the cross platform nature of the .air file format, applications that take advantage of the native process API must be deployed as native installers such as .exe and .dmg. The AIR runtime SDK will include support for generating basic native installers.