In short, you can't.
In reality, there may be alternate ways to open files. I blogged about
this one, using NavigateToURL:
http://www.jeffryhouser.com/index.cfm/2008/4/22/Using-AIR-to-launch-other-applications
. You could also check out "AIR Pollution" at
http://blog.fluorinefx.com/ ; which is intriguing.
sudha_bsb wrote:
Hi,
I have this requirement like launching native windows applications
like Windows wordpad and notepad from an application.
How Can I go about it? Is there a facility to do this in AIR 1.0?
Thanks,
Sudha.
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