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= FDT Getting Started Guide = | = FDT Getting Started Guide = |
Revision as of 16:33, 25 October 2011
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FDT Getting Started Guide
Michael Plank, from pro3dgames, has written a great tutorial on activetuts. Check it out here.
These short guides will lead you through the installation and will introduce you to some of the highly efficient and time-saving features and the basic structure of the FDT work environment.
Quick Fixes and Quick Assists
Our Videos page has all our Quick Fixes and Quick Assists in video format. A great place to learn about FDT's most popular and powerful features.
Tutorials
- Installing and Running FDT
- Basic AS3 Tutorial
- Writing Code With FDT
- Navigating Your Code and FDT's Workspace
Shortcuts
Forget the mouse! The FDT shortcuts are one of the most important techniques to increase coding efficiency. Here is a cheat sheet of the most popular shortcuts for quick reference
FAQ
If you're confused or having a problem getting yourself going. Check out our FAQ.
Videos
We're always adding new videos of tutorials, FDT's features, workflows and new ways of using FDT. Check out our Videos page.
Flash Tutorials
Installing And Running FDT
If you haven't installed FDT, or are having trouble getting FDT to install or launch, check out this tutorial. We'll make sure you have Java installed and walk you through downloading and installing FDT on Windows and OSX.
Basic AS3 Tutorial
Learn the basics of creating, building and compiling your first FDT project. You'll use the Project Wizard to create a project, then create your first Class and compile and view your application.
Flex / AIR Tutorial
See how quickly you can code and run an AIR application with the Flex framework. Similar to the Basic AS3 Tutorial, you'll go a little further by adjusting compiler options and being introduced to some of FDT's Smart Editor features.
Writing Code With FDT
FDT is packed with features designed to help developers write code efficiently and quickly. This walkthrough will go through many, but not all, of the most popular Smart Editor features.
With all the ins and outs of an IDE like FDT, a developer can get lost is seemingly endless windows and views. It's important to know how to get around the application and make sure you stay in control of what you're looking at.
Launch Configurations
Eventually, you're going to want to make some tweaks to your .SWF's settings (name, background color, size, frame rate ) as well as start using some advanced features such as viewing your .SWF in a browser.
This tutorial goes over these important topics, as well as introduces FDT's new Launcher Chain feature.
FDT and Ant Tutorial
Ant is a build tool that developers can use to extend FDT. It's an XML based syntax and can be used to extend FDT's built in launcher or used instead of the launcher if developers want to have even more control over their build process. It also has many built in tasks such as uploading to FTP, checking out from .SVN and creating .ZIP files just to name a few.
Intro To Profiling Applications
The FDT Profiler helps developers to detect performance issues within a flash application by providing two different approaches for profiling:
Creating Code Templates (snippets)
FDT’s code templates, also referred to as code snippets, allow for quick generation of user defined code. Although FDT ships with many templates pre-installed, users can edit existing templates, create new ones and even share templates with other FDT developers.
Sharing and Archiving Projects
Become familiar with how easy it is to share and distribute projects with others with FDT. This tutorial will show you how to import and export projects with FDT.
Setting Up and Using FDT & SVN
Sharing FDT projects is very easy to do. Follow this tutorial to learn how to:
- Activate a SVN plugin for FDT
- Add a project to a repository
- How to checkout an existing FDT project using a SVN repository.
SDK Management
With the release of FDT 4, developers now have granular control over their SDKs. Not only is adding and removing SDKs to projects easy, you can also easily add and remove specific parts of the SDK you may or may not need. You can also easily manage custom SDKs.
Using FDT's Debugger
FDT Max includes a powerful debugger. During the development process, a debugging tool is useful to help discover and fix bugs. Armed with FDT's debugger, you'll be prepared to crush any bugs that stand in your way.
From Flash Builder To FDT
If the differences between FDT and Flash Builder were boiled down into one word, it would be Flexibility. Beside having powerful code editing features that are missing with Flash Builder, FDT is flexible with your project management whereas Flash Builder is going to harness you with constraints. While, at first, these concepts will seem foreign to the long term Flash Builder user - as you master them you'll quickly understand the power and flexibility they provide.
Font Library Creator
FDT now includes a Font Library Creator. This is a very hand GUI tool that is designed to make font management much, much easier. Developers can use the Font Library Creator to not just add fonts but also control which glyphs and characters are used.
In this tutorial you'll learn how to use fonts via:
- Actionscript Embed
- SWCs
- SWFs - both at compile time and runtime
Project Templates
FDT developers can create sophisticated project setups that can be customized just before generation.
In this tutorial you'll learn:
- An overview of project templates with FDT
- Where templates are located and their structure
- How to create a simple project template
- How to create complex templates
Project References
This enables powerful ways for developers to share source code between multiple projects.
In this tutorial you'll learn:
- An overview of project references
- How to share source code between projects
Working With Linked Resources
Some developers like to have source code, either via a folder or .AS files, added to their project that is saved on their workstation outside of their project. The solution for this is to use FDT's 'Linked Resource' feature.
Apparat & FDT
With FDT 4.4, we've began to support Apparat. Apparat is a powerful framework to optimize ABC, SWC and SWF files. It's open source and looks to push the boundaries of ways for Flash developers to enhance their workflows and applications.
In this tutorial you'll learn:
- How to enable Apparat for your projects
Adding The Flex 4.5 & 3.6 SDKs To FDT
Learn how to add the latest SDKs to FDT.
Migrating Projects & Using Project Types
Watch this simple video on how to move a project to a new SDK and Project Type.
Setting Up and Using Mobile Templates
Watch these two videos on how to merge the Flex 4.5.1 and AIR 2.7 sdks.
haXe Tutorials
An Overview of haXe & FDT
haXe Development With FDT
Developed in collaboration with Powerflasher and Influxis, the FDT haXe plugin provides developers a powerful tool for authoring the haXe multi-platform language. Our goal is to provide the best haXe coding experience and that it feels like coding in the AS3 or MXML editor of FDT: same shortcuts, same syntax coloring, same coding comfort.
Community Resources
We really appreciate the of efforts the FDT community, it's a big part of what makes FDT so great. Check out our Community Resources page to learn about tutorials and tips that fans of FDT have created.
Online Workshops
Every Last Tuesday of the month at 9 to 10am (PST)
Join our next Live Broadcast FDT4 workshop. Register here to keep you informed on the latest activities.
The sessions will be contingent on the audience attending. Tell us what we should cover when you register.
You will learn how to use FDT or help getting started, while covering some of latest new features. This is also an opportunity to discuss code and best practices developing multi-target applications in ActionScript, Flex or haXe for the Desktop, Mobile and Web.
Most of all, this is also a great opportunity to ask any question directly to the FDT team and give us feedback.
The session will be live on ustream.tv
Here you can find the recordings of our past workshops:
Reference
Project Template Syntax
The new project template model introduced in 4.2 greatly extended the syntax of the description.xml including UI components and expressions.
Learn more by reading about Project Template Syntax
Ant Tasks
Ant is a tool that allows developers to extend FDT and automate various tasks. It's XML based and easy to learn. Ant on it's own has many built in tasks, and even better, FDT has various Ant tasks of it's own for you to use.
Learn more by reading FDT Ant Tasks.
Features
Smart Editor
- Live Error Highlighting
- Auto Library Folder
- Syntactic and Semantic Highlighting
- Advanced Code Completion (context and convention based)
- Code Templates
- Quick Fixes
- Quick Assist
- Organize Imports
- Advanced code formatter (AS3 + MXML)
- Project Tasks (TODO, FIXME, ...)
- Customizable Hotkeys
- Rename Refactoring (for files, types, variables, metadata and functions)
- Quick Trace
- Move Refactoring
- Occurrence Marking
- MXML Namespace Generation & Refactoring
- Quick Explore
- Outline View
- Jump to Declaration
- Open Resource
- Live Flash Help
- Quick Outline for fast navigation
- Type Hierarchy
- Open Type
- Dependency View
- Reference Search
- FDT Search
- Quick Access
Project Management
- Creation Wizards
- SDK Management
- Multiple Source Folders
- Linked Libraries Linking of external source folders
- SWC Support Linking of external SWCs
- Version Control Support [SVN]
- SWC browsing and source code representation
- Refactoring
Testing and Deployment
- Flash Authoring Support
- Customizable Compilation
- FDT and ANT
- ANT Exporter
- Launch Configuration
- SWF Viewers
- Profiler
- Debugger
Downloads
Find example projects and plenty of extras here!
Visit our Downloads page for more.
Suggested Eclipse Plugins
Because FDT is part of the Eclipse community, there are many plugins that can be integrated with FDT. Visit our Suggested Eclipse Plugins page for some plugins we think you might find helpful.
FAQs
If you're confused or run into a problem getting yourself going. Check out our FAQ.
Release Notes
To update to the latest FDT version follow the instructions in our FAQ otherwise you can download the latest FDT here.
Latest version information: