AS3 NativeProcess launch application

[74designer]

Hello All. I am trying to launch a program from an AIR file. I have been pointed to NativeProcess as the scripting to use for launching a program. For testing purposes I am trying to launch Photoshop CC on my MAC.  Below is the code I have tested but I keep getting an error.

Does anyone have any input on where I might have gone wrong?

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package

{

    import flash.display.Sprite;

    import flash.desktop.NativeProcess;

    import flash.desktop.NativeProcessStartupInfo;

    import flash.events.Event;

    import flash.events.ProgressEvent;

    import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;

    import flash.events.NativeProcessExitEvent;

    import flash.filesystem.File;

    public class NativeProcessExample extends Sprite

    {

        public var process:NativeProcess;

        public function NativeProcessExample()

        {

            if(NativeProcess.isSupported)

            {

                setupAndLaunch();

            }

            else

            {

                trace("NativeProcess not supported.");

            }

        }

        public function setupAndLaunch():void

        {   

            var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();

            var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC/Adobe Photoshop CC.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Photoshop CC");

            nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;

            var processArgs:Vector.<String> = new Vector.<String>();

            processArgs[0] = "foo";

            nativeProcessStartupInfo.arguments = processArgs;

            process = new NativeProcess();

            process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);

            process.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.STANDARD_OUTPUT_DATA, onOutputData);

            process.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.STANDARD_ERROR_DATA, onErrorData);

            process.addEventListener(NativeProcessExitEvent.EXIT, onExit);

            process.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.STANDARD_OUTPUT_IO_ERROR, onIOError);

            process.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.STANDARD_ERROR_IO_ERROR, onIOError);

        }

        public function onOutputData(event:ProgressEvent):void

        {

            trace("Got: ", process.standardOutput.readUTFBytes(process.standardOutput.bytesAvailable));

        }

        public function onErrorData(event:ProgressEvent):void

        {

            trace("ERROR -", process.standardError.readUTFBytes(process.standardError.bytesAvailable));

        }

        public function onExit(event:NativeProcessExitEvent):void

        {

            trace("Process exited with ", event.exitCode);

        }

        public function onIOError(event:IOErrorEvent):void

        {

             trace(event.toString());

        }

    }

}

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When I run this an error 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: NativeProcessExitEvent.

The error is referencing the code, 4 lines up from the bottom in the sample above..

Does anyone have any input on where I may have made my mistake?

Thank you.

[dmennenoh]

Do you need to know when it exits? I mean you could just remove the listener for the exit event and see if it works. I start powershell sometimes and have no listeners on the process and it works fine. Also, have you tried without the "foo" argument?

[74designer]

Hello dmennenoh,

Thank you for your reply.

The code I used is what Adobe documentation provided as an example. I do not understand every element of the code.

With your suggestion I should delete the following bits of code?

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processArgs[0] = "foo";

process.addEventListener(NativeProcessExitEvent.EXIT, onExit);

  public function onExit(event:NativeProcessExitEvent):void

        {

            trace("Process exited with ", event.exitCode);

        }

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Thank you for your help.

[dmennenoh]

That'd be a start anyway...Did you try it?