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

in mac os x, if you want to launch an .app file, then you have to write the following for the file path. (Assume that the name of the app is xxx)

if(NativeProcess.isSupported)
{
    //not correct
    //file = file.resolvePath("/Applications/xxx.app");

    //correct
    file = file.resolvePath("/Applications/xxx.app/Contents/MacOS/xxx");

    var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();
    nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
    var process:NativeProcess = new NativeProcess();

    process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);

}