AIR apps useful?

Coding
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ok, so I use Action Script a ton at my current job, and we were setting up away to automate the workflow of rendering with maya through the cmd console. well I went home and made this little app in AIR that helps speed up the typing of options in the console. There are others out there on creative crash and stuff but this isn’t a mel script, or python, just an AIR app. First of all, that being said, I would love to get some feedback to see if this is useful at all. Second, what could I improve (i.e. what else would you like it to do) and third. If you had this on your mobile device what do you think it should do too? I can make it a droid app or iPhone app, that’s what’s cool about flash these days. What other apps would you like to see that would help pipelines from a mobile perspective. This is cool cause it can be install on pc or mac no prob, although I have not tried it on a mac yet. Let me know what you think. Thanks

http://www.mattmurrayanimation.com/downloads/batchHelper_AIR.rar

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I like things like this. It allows people that aren’t comfortable with the command line to still take advantage of those tools. I don’t use Maya, and Max has Backburner and MentalRay satellites so I haven’t really used it’s command line renderer.

I like that it can be ported to many platforms easily. The first couple of features I would include are starting a render, and checking the status of current render jobs.

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So it looks like a dead end with AIR and stuff like this. for security reasons air doesn’t allow you to run a .bat file from it and the openWithDefaultApplication() method is disabled it seems. so I updated the link with the progress I had made:

http://www.mattmurrayanimation.com/downloads/batchHelper_AIR.rar

it still can make the .bat file just need to name it with a .bat when saving and then if you double click it, windows knows what to do, but was trying to skip that step. So if you want, go ahead and use it. I’m off to figure out how to make it in python now…