Developing AIR with Flashdevelop
Good news everyone! Since it is still a bit tricky to get Flashdevelop and AIR together, I wrote a little guide how to set it all up. I’m using FD3 Beta 2, it might be a bit different with newer versions of Flashdevelop, but it should work:
- Download the latest Flex SDK here and unzip it in a folder of your choice. Change the Flex SDK Location in Flashdevelop to the new SDK (F9 -> AS3Context -> Flex 2 SDK Location -> C:\[PATH_TO_FLEX3SDK])
- For real coding comfort you can set up an AIR project template: You need to copy and edit an existing template folder. Flashdevelop project templates are located in C:\Program Files\FlashDevelop\FirstRun\Templates\ProjectTemplates\.
- Copy \06 ActionScript 3 – Default Project\ to \09 AIR – Default Project\.
- Then copy the sample application descriptor file that comes with the Flex 3 SDK (C:\[PATH_TO_FLEX3SDK]\templates\air\application.xml) to \09 AIR – Default Project\.
- And of course you need autocompletion: Just download the latest Flex 3 with AIR intrinsic classes and unzip them in C:\Program Files\FlashDevelop\FirstRun\Library\AS3\intrinsic\ overwriting the old ones (you might want to save them if you want to switch back to “normal” AS3 completion).
- Start Flashdevelop and create a new AIR project. There are two more things you need to set up to get your project working:
- In the project properties, go to ‘Compiler Options’ and add the additional compiler option: +configname=air
- Go to ‘Build’ and add the post-build command line: ‘C:\[PATH_TO_FLEX3SDK]\bin\adl.exe’ application.xml
- Edit the application.xml and point to your start.swf or mxml in the xml node content (in initialWindow). You can compile and launch your application hitting F8 now.
- Have fun developing! ;)
07. November 2007 | Posted in AIR
5 Comments
1. fluxa | 07. December 2007 at 00:09
Hi, how can I create the AIR installation file with Flash Develop (.air). All that I get when I try to compile is a SWF file.
thanks
2. lars | 10. December 2007 at 13:48
You can’t do it with Flashdevelop, but with a small command line tool (adt) in your flex sdk folder. The syntax is explaned here: Adobe Flex 3.0 Help.
3. Chris | 30. January 2008 at 15:38
Thanks for the article. Very helpful! For some reason FD doesn’t seem to recognize the code as an AIR app. It uses the proper config file and custom post-build procedure, but dies when I reference AIR specific features. For instance – {File}.uploadUnencoded is reported as undefined. Can you offer any suggestions that might resolve this problem? I am using beta 3 release of Flex/AIR.
Thanks again for all.
4. lars | 30. January 2008 at 16:14
The newest FD Beta 5 solves all these problems. It has integrated AIR Support, so you might want to go for the newest release ;)
5. Chris | 30. January 2008 at 21:26
Lars,
Thanks for the info. I had thought I was at the latest release, but in fact there was an update to FD Beta 5 (intrinsics), which has resolved the issue.
Many thanks.
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