By default there is no way to do this kind of thing. This is because Adobe is very big on security, they don't want malicious flash programs out on the web as it could make them look bad. Even using Air you can not launch other programs. What you can do is use a different projector such as Zinc or mProjector both of these compile your swf into an exe and allow it to make low level calls. I also have used F in Box to implemented my own projector in .net. This allows me to have full control just like a normal desktop application and still get that great flash UI.
http://www.f-in-box.com/ http://www.multidmedia.com/software/zinc/ http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/ --- In [email protected], "agaboogaboo" <agabooga...@...> wrote: > > I'm building a Flex GUI and need to start another program based on what they > select, how would I do this? The other programs will be in Python and/or Java. >
