Re: [flexcoders] AIR: Forcing a file to be opened By OS Default Application

2008-04-16 Thread Cutter (Flex Related)
According to a talk that Ben Forta gave here in Nashville, not long before product launch, the AIR sandbox strictly prohibits access to other programs on a system. Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _

RE: [flexcoders] AIR: Forcing a file to be opened By OS Default Application

2008-04-16 Thread Battershall, Jeff
Steve, In the scenario I'm envisioning, I am not thinking that AIR would be starting the program itself but the OS would, as it would in response to a double click on a file name in Windows Explorer. But if it can't be done, it can't be done. Jeff -Original Message- From:

Re: [flexcoders] AIR: Forcing a file to be opened By OS Default Application

2008-04-16 Thread Jeffry Houser
True, but I thought you could link to a file and then let the OS handle it. I haven't tested this, though... Cutter (Flex Related) wrote: According to a talk that Ben Forta gave here in Nashville, not long before product launch, the AIR sandbox strictly prohibits access to other

RE: [flexcoders] AIR: Forcing a file to be opened By OS Default Application

2008-04-16 Thread Jim Hayes
I don't think that's the case. (would love to be proven wrong mind you) If so, then surely one could just write a text file, give it a .bat extention and it would be run by default by command.exe? (OK, windows example but there must be a mac equivalent). It would be very useful though! :-) By