Valentin Schmidt wrote: > Benny wrote: >> @valentin: Air 2 is able to call commandline tools just fine. > > thanks for sharing! but of course I was talking about calling a command > line tool *and* returning the STDOUT/STDERR result to the main app. can > AIR 2 do this? do you maybe have any links/documentation for this > feature? it would be really interesting to know it this is finally > possible in Air 2.
this part I could answer myself, it's the new flash.desktop.NativeProcess class: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/flash/desktop/NativeProcess.html one restriction (that e.g, a director projector doesn't have) is that your app needs to be isntalled by a special "natove installer": "The NativeProcess class and its capabilities are only available to AIR applications installed with a native installer (extended desktop profile applications)" > I think I also heard rumours that in Air 2 it's possible to embed the > runtime into your app, so no prior runtime installation is required, is > that correct? _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
