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AIR: Forcing a file to be opened By OS Default Application   Message List  
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Pardon the cross post, but I'm trying to find out if AIR supports
triggering a file to be opened by the OS's default application for that
file extension.

Like having MS Excel open a .xls file.

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Pardon the cross post, but I'm trying to find out if AIR supports triggering a file to be opened by the OS's default application for that file extension. Like... 		Battershall, Jeff
jeff_batters...
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2:22 pm

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...
Cutter (Flex Related)
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2:32 pm

True, but I thought you could link to a file and then let the OS handle it. I haven't tested this, though... ... -- Jeffry Houser Flex, ColdFusion, AIR AIM:...
Jeffry Houser
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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...
Battershall, Jeff
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Jeff, We've been looking into it as well. Maybe the following links could give you some more help: ...
aphexyuri
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5:12 pm

Understandably Adobe is feeling rather conservative about this sort of thing. The last thing we as developers would want is an abuse of the AIR runtime which...
Battershall, Jeff
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A little AIR pollution here: http://blog.fluorinefx.com/ (windows only, not tested on all versions) Zoli www.fluorinefx.com _____ From:...
Zoltan Csibi
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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...
Jim Hayes
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Zoli, I am impressed! So I guess you included those 2 dlls in the air file, and found some way to call them? How? Are you going to let us know? ... From:...
Jim Hayes
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Hi Jim, Yes there are 3 dlls included (simply added to the air project). The communication is via localconnection, the app checks if it can connect and if the...
zcsibi
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Hi Jim, Yes there are 3 dlls included (simply added to the air project). The communication is via localconnection, the app checks if it can connect and if the...
Zoltan Csibi
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i've wished since first using air I could access other applications with use of their COM toolkits. Glenn www.flex-ria.com www.tinylion.co.uk ...
Glenn Williams
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I'd guessed localconnection was involved (it seems to be the way AIR does these things, from what I can tell), but the finer details are way beyond my...
Jim Hayes
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10:40 pm

Hi Jeff I haven't tried it personally, but I think what you are looking for is related to the getDefaultApplication() function in the NativeApplication class. ...
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