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 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

With AIR 2.0 you now can:

if(NativeProcess.isSupported) {     var file:File = File.desktopDirectory;     file = file.resolvePath("StyleLookupold.exe");      var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();     nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;     var process:NativeProcess = new NativeProcess();      process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);  } 

You also need to add this to your descriptor file.

<supportedProfiles>extendedDesktop</supportedProfiles>