Adobe AIR opening another AIR app

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Im working in Flash CC using AIR3 and I prepared two AIR applications. I want to know if it is possible to run the second air app from the first app. Simple as I can when you click in App1 on button it would open new window with App2. Both apps are AIR but they have different stage size.

Is it possible to do?

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fileactionscript-3airexecute
Here: stackoverflow.com/questions/672021/adobe-air-to-execute-program - ElChiniNet

2 Answers

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I needed to start different AIR desktop applications from a single "Dispatcher" AIR desktop application and I had a hard time to understand how to do it. Trying different solutions didn't work. Finally I found different ways to do it.
The easier way is to use adobe.utils.ProductManager, it was tested on Windows.

Here is the code:

import adobe.utils.ProductManager;
private var pm:ProductManager = new ProductManager("airappinstaller");

private function launchMyApplication(myApplicationID:String):void
    {
        pm.launch("-launch " + myApplicationID);
    }

About MyApplication: It is Flex AIR Application and it has a folder META_INF/AIR; there is a file application.xml

  1. You can find the Application ID in the tag "id"
  2. If you forget to set allowBrowserInvocation = true; the Application you are trying to launch will never start.
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  1. See Native Process;
  2. See how run via url-sheeme: answer about BrowserInvocation;

If possible I prefer second solution - url-sheeme or air.swf.