Adobe AIR to execute program
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.
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here is a simple code to execute .exe file from adobe air. openPhotoshopBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,openPhotoshop); private function openPhotoshop(){ //--------first define the path of .exe file var photoshop:File = new File("C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (64 Bit)/Photoshop.exe") var startupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo(); startupInfo.executable = photoshop; var process:NativeProcess = new NativeProcess(); process.start(startupInfo); }
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here is a simple code to execute .exe file from adobe air. openPhotoshopBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,openPhotoshop); private function openPhotoshop(){ //--------first define the path of .exe file var photoshop:File = new File("C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (64 Bit)/Photoshop.exe") var startupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo(); startupInfo.executable = photoshop; var process:NativeProcess = new NativeProcess(); process.start(startupInfo); }
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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, andCommand
response and error.Connect to the native exe via a
connect
callIn the event handler for
connect
, create a newCommand
e.g.ScreenshotCommand
and execute it (viaCommandProxy.execute
method)2014-07-18 0 Comments