The question ultimately aims at answering this question: can a batch script run an AIR app? The goal is to setup an AIR app on a web server and make it run through batches. I simply have to know whether this is possible by default or not. Thanks.
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A:
Oliver Goldman from Adobe posts how to launch an application from the command line:
On Windows and Linux, invoking AIR-based applications at the command line is straightforward. On Windows, inside the application's install directory you'll find an executable with the application's name; that's the thing to run from the command line. On Linux, the executable is inside the "bin" subdirectory.
On Mac OS things are slightly trickier. In Finder, applications appear to be a single file, but they're really a folder with with an extension of ".app" and a particular interior folder structure. To launch them from the command line with arguments, you have to dig into this structure and find the executable. For example, to launch an application named HelloWorld you'd run:
/Applications/HelloWorld.app/Contents/MacOS/HelloWorld
You can also use the AIR Debug Launcher. It allows you to launch the application from the command line based on its application.xml file without requiring it to be installed.
Simon Lieschke
2009-04-10 10:05:28