FlashDevelop

Notes and tips on using FlashDevelop for AIR applications. With specifics on Arduino integration.

http://www.flashdevelop.org/

Current dev environment:

• FlashDevelop 4.6.3.2
• AIR SDK + ASC 2.0 14.0.0
• Windows 7

Projects

WingScreen

IDE

• 4.6.3
  • http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11876
• 4.6.4
  • http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11900

Native Extensions (ANE)

Initial Project Configuration

• Create/Open AIR Project in FlashDevelop
• Add lib directory to root of project files
• Copy .ane file to lib
• Unzip/Extract .ane into a folder
• Open extensions.xml in the extracted files at META-INF/ANE/
• Locate and copy the contents of the <id> tag
• Rename the extracted folder to the id value appended with .ane
  • For ArduinoConnector it will be com.quetwo.Arduino.ArduinoConnector.ane
• In the Project panel of FlashDevelop, right-click the .ane file and Add To Library
• Open application.xml for editing:
  • Add extensionID with the following (using ID of .ane):
    • <extensions>
    • <extensionID>com.quetwo.Arduino.ArduinoConnector</extensionID>
    • </extensions>
  • Specify extendedDesktop
    • <supportedProfiles>extendedDesktop</supportedProfiles>
• Replace call adt... line in bat/Packager.bat with
  • call adt -package %OPTIONS% %SIGNING_OPTIONS% -target native %AIR_TARGET% %APP_XML% %FILE_OR_DIR% -extdir lib/
• Replace adl... line in Run.bat with
  • adl "%APP_XML%" "%APP_DIR%" -extdir lib/
• Replace set AIR_TARGET... line in PackageApp.bat with
  • set AIR_TARGET=air/Setup.exe

Reference Guide used for configuring FlashDevelop projects

• http://fermmm.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/working-tutorial-to-install-air-native-extensions-in-flash-develop-4-windows-desktop-project/

ArduinoConnector.ane Issues

pthreadGC2.dll may not be properly referenced or included when testing or installing.

A work around for this is to copy pthreadGC2.dll in to the root directory of your installation, along with libSerialANE.dll and libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

For testing in the IDE these files need also be added to the /bin folder of the compiling SDK, where adl.exe is located.