air process adt flex - air

Question

I have two air applications and installed them in desktop and executed them and two air processes are listed in taskbar manager.Now how can I execute some method of one air application from another air application?

Answer 1

Use LocalConnection.
You can Host a Connection in one AIR application and connect from the the other AIR guy... From there - you can call methods.
BEWARE: LocalConnection can be a little tricky and odd (for example, connections are global and the names can't overlap).
From the Example Doc listed above....
// Code in LocalConnectionSenderExample.as
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.LocalConnection;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldType;
import flash.events.StatusEvent;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
public class LocalConnectionSenderExample extends Sprite {
private var conn:LocalConnection;
// UI elements
private var messageLabel:TextField;
private var message:TextField;
private var sendBtn:Sprite;
public function LocalConnectionSenderExample() {
buildUI();
sendBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, sendMessage);
conn = new LocalConnection();
conn.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, onStatus);
}
private function sendMessage(event:MouseEvent):void {
conn.send("myConnection", "lcHandler", message.text);
}
private function onStatus(event:StatusEvent):void {
switch (event.level) {
case "status":
trace("LocalConnection.send() succeeded");
break;
case "error":
trace("LocalConnection.send() failed");
break;
}
}
private function buildUI():void {
const hPadding:uint = 5;
// messageLabel
messageLabel = new TextField();
messageLabel.x = 10;
messageLabel.y = 10;
messageLabel.text = "Text to send:";
messageLabel.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
addChild(messageLabel);
// message
message = new TextField();
message.x = messageLabel.x + messageLabel.width + hPadding;
message.y = 10;
message.width = 120;
message.height = 20;
message.background = true;
message.border = true;
message.type = TextFieldType.INPUT;
addChild(message);
// sendBtn
sendBtn = new Sprite();
sendBtn.x = message.x + message.width + hPadding;
sendBtn.y = 10;
var sendLbl:TextField = new TextField();
sendLbl.x = 1 + hPadding;
sendLbl.y = 1;
sendLbl.selectable = false;
sendLbl.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
sendLbl.text = "Send";
sendBtn.addChild(sendLbl);
sendBtn.graphics.lineStyle(1);
sendBtn.graphics.beginFill(0xcccccc);
sendBtn.graphics.drawRoundRect(0, 0,
(sendLbl.width + 2 + hPadding + hPadding), (sendLbl.height + 2), 5, 5);
sendBtn.graphics.endFill();
addChild(sendBtn);
}
}
}
// Code in LocalConnectionReceiverExample.as
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.net.LocalConnection;
import flash.text.TextField;
public class LocalConnectionReceiverExample extends Sprite {
private var conn:LocalConnection;
private var output:TextField;
public function LocalConnectionReceiverExample() {
buildUI();
conn = new LocalConnection();
conn.client = this;
try {
conn.connect("myConnection");
} catch (error:ArgumentError) {
trace("Can't connect...the connection name is already
being used by another SWF");
}
}
public function lcHandler(msg:String):void {
output.appendText(msg + "\n");
}
private function buildUI():void {
output = new TextField();
output.background = true;
output.border = true;
output.wordWrap = true;
addChild(output);
}
}
}