Adobe AIR Development

[dhinakaran123]

Hi All,

 

      I want lauch the native appllication like word to go from adope air script. i am QNXApplication.openFile(). It's not giving any exception but application is not lauch.  Any idea about this issue?



[CoCopia]

You need to pass the file type in openFile(); but you should also check to see if the file type is supported first using QNXApplication.supportedFileTypesVector array to see if the file is a valid file extension.

[peter9477]

What path are you passing to the function? Maybe show us a couple of lines of the relevant code.

[dhinakaran123]

var supportFileTypes:Vector.<String> = qnx.system.QNXApplication.supportedFileTypes;
            for each (var valuetring in supportFileTypes)
            {
                trace("supportedFileTypes :"+value);
            }

i can get supported file types. QNXApplication.qnxApplication.openFile( file.nativePath ); is not working what will i do?

[peter9477]

I don't recall if QNXApplication.openFile() actually works yet, but have you tried using the standard Flash method with File.openWithDefaultApplication() ?

[jtegen]

I was not able to get either to work a month or so ago. If you can get it to work, please let us know and share what you did to get it to work with either the native or QNX APIs.

[jtegen]

The other issue (and maybe why they are not implemented), is that the OS does not have a preference to select/manage preferred applications based on file extension.

[peter9477]

I just tested with File.openWithDefaultApplication() and it works fine.

After copying the sample PDF from http://samplepdf.com into my media/documents folder over WiFi, I ran code that basically does this and it opened it directly in Adobe Reader:

var file:File = File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath('sample.pdf');
file.openWithDefaultApplication();

A similar test with QNXApplication.openFile() fails, even though the extension "pdf" is listed in QNXApplication.supportedFileTypes.

Oh, and it's well worth noting that to access files in the shared folders, you need the this in your blackberry-tablet.xml file: <action>access_shared</action> .

[peter9477]

I added a note to my previous post pointing out that you need to add an <action> element to your blackberry-tablet.xml file in order to request that the user provide access to the shared/ folder for your app.

It's also important to realize that your app's own data folder is protected from all other apps, presumably including Reader, so I think it's unlikely that you could use this technique on anything within File.applicationStorageDirectory, period, regardless of permission settings. (The same would apply to File.applicationDirectory, of course.)

[jtegen]

Good to know, then it must be the registration of the file types that is the issue.