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New Eclipse Plugins for Flex Development

Adobe Products, Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder) | Posted by David Jumeau
Apr 28 2009

I discovered two eclipse plugins for Flex / Flash Development:

Joa Ebert released a FBDT, a plugin to create Pixel Bender filters that is compatible for Flash CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, and After Effects CS4. (I attended last Saturday’s workshop with Lee Brimelow and he mentioned that there are some limitations to Pixel Bender development for Flash CS4 [e.g. no loops] in coding the pixel bender filters.) Since most developers use an external IDE e.g. Eclipse, this is very ideal instead of using the one that Adobe provides.

Rich Tretola blogged about a new Eclipse plugin for Flex code formatting (for Actionscript and MXML). This is great for those who want consistency in presenting their code.  

DJ

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Tour de Flex

Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder) | Posted by David Jumeau
Apr 02 2009

 

(Update: April 2, 2009): Tour de Flex now at 1.2.

(Nov 21st, 2008) I downloaded an air app called “Tour de Flex” which is an Adobe AIR application which features all the UI components available in Flex Builder. When clicking on each UI item, it provides some sample code in MXML to cut and paste into your Flex projects. It’s a good overview on the capabilities on delivering rapid RIA’s of Flex. The link http://gregsramblings.com/2008/11/20/how-we-got-tour-de-flex-on-1000-usb-drives/#comment-1253 describes how the developers got a whole bunch of people to distribute the Tour de Flex app on USB keys for the 2008 Adobe MAX conference recently. Cool concept in rapidly distributing your apps for your client. :D

David

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Debugging Flex 3 Builder with the Flash 10 Debugger

Adobe Products, Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder) | Posted by David Jumeau
Mar 02 2009

While trying out Lee Brimelow’s Flex tutorial, I encountered an error in relation to debugging in Flex Builder 3 with Flash Player 10 player with this message:

“Flex Builder cannot locate the required debug version of the Flash Player. You may need to install the debug version of Flash Player 9.0 or reinstall Flex Builder. Do you want to try to debug with the current version?”

I was wondering if the error had to do with installing Flash CS4 after installing Flex Builder 3.2. I realized that the standard debug player was After scouring many sites, but I think the proper solution could be found at the Dublin Adobe User Group’s site.

I downloaded the lastest Flash 10 debug player, placed it in the Flash CS4 player folder (ie. C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Flash CS4/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/FP10). Thereafter, I added the path to it in Flex Builder’s flex property path (“project/properties/flex build path” in Eclipse).

DJ

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Flash Camp 2009 Montreal

AIR (Formerly Apollo), AS3, Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder) | Posted by David Jumeau
Feb 06 2009
Flash Camp logo

Flash Camp is coming...

Flash Camp is coming to Montreal. Mike Potter is coming to Montreal to give us a pep talk about Flex Builder, Flash Catalyst and etc. Free food, Free t-shirts, and more…

Find out at the swfmontreal site.

DJ

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Eclipse Ganymede and Flex Builder 3

Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder) | Posted by David Jumeau
Dec 10 2008

I’ve been searching online for reasons that I get an “Assertion failure” error in Eclipse with the Ganymede build. I turns out that I needed to update the latest Flex Builder. In your Eclipse menu: Select “Help > Search for Flex Builder Updates”

More info on the web at http://www.tektool.net

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