AIR 2.0 in MAC application of NativeProcess - Error #3014 & Error #3019

Question

Hello,
I create a .dmg package for mac and installed project successfully in mac and run properly but when i used a nativeprocess meanse like i give path of open photoshop  like "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Adobe Photoshop CS5.app" then file is exists but when i file given to native process object like nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;  it gives error Error #3014 and if i gives any .dmg path then it gives Error #3019 ,
my current code is :
            private function openPhotoshop():void
                if(NativeProcess.isSupported)
                    var file:File = File.applicationDirectory;
                    file = file.resolvePath("/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Adobe Photoshop CS5.app");
                    var procarg:Vector.<String> = new Vector.<String>();
                     var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();
                    nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
                    procarg.push("start");
                    nativeProcessStartupInfo.arguments = procarg;
                    process = new NativeProcess();               
                    process.start(nativeProcessStartupInfo);                   
Can u please help me how can i open any application like photoshop in mac using NativeProcess ,
Thanks,
Mohit.

Answer 1

We did a bit of investigation on this today and found a couple of approaches that you can take.
The first deals with the "open" system command.  It appears that this command needs to be used to mimic launching an app via the dock or finder (using launch services):
var file:File = File.applicationDirectory;
file = file.resolvePath('/usr/bin/open');
nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
var args:Vector.<String> = new Vector.<String>();
args.push("/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Adobe Photoshop CS5.app");
nativeProcessStartupInfo.arguments = args;
process = new NativeProcess();
Another approach uses AppleScript.  You could create a simple script such as:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
activate
end tell
Then compile and save this script in a binary/application format.  Once that package is created, you can call that (or actually the "Applet" binary inside the package) via AIR's native process APIs.
While both of these approaches work, it would be nice to have the ability to call the .app directly with Native Process (and get the standard Finder behavior.)  I'll add a feature request into our database so the team can review the workflow and hopefully add functionality into future versions of AIR.
Thanks,
Chris