How to find out which browsers are installed on OS?

Question

Hi everyone,
I've been reading through the AIR doc, but it doesn't seem
like an AIR application can read OS information like what browsers
are currently installed. Further, at run time, is there a way to
tell which browsers are currently running?
Best regards,
wt

Answer 1

I built a small example as a starting point to detect
installed applications on a Mac.
Should be easy to change it for XP/Linux.
AFAIK there is no way to get the list of running applications
from Air.
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private function checkBrowser():void {
// change this according to the OS
var file:File =
File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath("/Applications");
res.text = "false";
for each (var o:Object in file.getDirectoryListing()) {
var name:String = o.nativePath;
if (name.search(browserName.text) != -1) {
res.text = "true";
res.visible = true;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Button label="test" click="checkBrowser()"/>
<mx:TextArea id="browserName" text="Safari"/>
<mx:Text text="Does this machine have {browserName.text}
installed?"/>
<mx:Text id="res" visible="false"/>
</mx:WindowedApplication>