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.

Thank you.

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> 

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, and Command response and error.

• Connect to the native exe via a connect call

• In the event handler for connect, create a new Command e.g. ScreenshotCommand and execute it (via CommandProxy.execute method)

... and that's it!

Hope this helps.