Author and FDT fan Sidney de Koning has just completed a new book titled ‘Automating ActionScript Projects With Eclipse and Ant‘. It’s a short and sweet book that gives a nice introduction for anyone interested in integrating Eclipse & Ant into their Flash workflow. In this book, you’ll find various powerful Ant scripts as well [...]
You asked for it and we built it. FDT 5 is now available as an Eclipse plugin. Many developers prefer to have FDT installed into an existing Eclipse setup. Starting today, you can install FDT as a plugin and it will function as FDT Free until you enter a license key. To install FDT as a plugin: [...]
We’d like to call attention to a great free Flashevent on Dec. 4, 2011: Flashtent is a livestreaming event hosted by John Barrett (HFUG) and Ben Fhala (EverythingFlash) and will cover Mobile, 3D, AIR, Gaming, and HTML5. Speakers include Dee Sadler, David Gamez, Chris Griffith, James Wagstaff, as well as FDT’s Alan Klement. Alan will [...]
The waiting comes to an end, you can now upgrade your FDT to a whole new dimension. FDT has just become the perfect toolkit for Flash-/Flex-, haXe- (HTML5, JS, PHP, WebGL …) and mobile development. New Features: haXe support Extract Method Extract Constant Extract Local Variable Convert Local Variable to Field ASDoc View Fat SWC [...]
As announced last week, FDT 5 will not only gain features but improve in many ways. Last Monday we told you about the new Freemium model. Today we will show you the new prices.
You asked for it and we built it. FDT 5 is now available as an Eclipse plugin.
Many developers prefer to have FDT installed into an existing Eclipse setup. Starting today, you can install FDT as a plugin and it will function as FDT Free until you enter a license key.
To install FDT as a plugin:
1.Choose “Help->Install New Software…”
2. Click the “Add” button.
3. Enter a site name (such as FDT).
4. Insert http://fdt.powerflasher.com/update/fdt5/ in the Location field and click OK.
5. When the screen refreshes click on FDT 5 and click ‘Next’.
6. Follow the rest of the instructions to complete installation.
For anyone using the standalone version and has experienced this bug with linked libraries, go ahead and go to Help>Check for Updates and update to this latest version. We’ve added a small patch to address this one issue.
Enjoy!
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@Matt
Make sure you are in the FDT perspective. Since you’re not using the standalone, FDT’s perspective won’t be set as default.
Would be nice if this worked
It’s all installed, the files are there on the filesystem, but when I start Eclipse (Indigo, Win32), none of the FDT functionality appears.