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Revision as of 16:28, 4 January 2011

FDT is more than just an IDE. It is a community of amazing contributors from around the world, including volunteers and Powerflasher employees, who work with each other to advance the interests of the better Flash and Flex development environment. Here you can find a selection of invaluable tutorials written by the FDT Team and the Community.

A collection of resources for FDT users including project templates, code snippets, Ant scripts, sample projects, color themes and more on GitHub

Check also welovefdt, a community driven project with a collection of best blogs/articles/tutorials about FDT

FDT4 Specific Topics

• Multiscreen Development & Testing: Android, iOS, BlackBerry (PlayBook), TV + more ... (Romain Ecarnot)
• Setting Up FDT for the Blackberry Playbook SDK (Part I) (Pieter Helsen)
• FDT 4 Review (Hugo Larcher)
• Android Air development using Ant & ADT for FDT 4 (Karl Freeman)
• Use Flash Pro Assets in Actionscript and Flex Projects (Video) (David Ortinau)
• How to build your AIR application for Android using FDT (Leonardo Risuleo)
• AIR2 and FDT4 (M3) – A Detailed Walkthrough (Marvin Blase)
• FDT Font Library (Pierre Laveklint)
• Create AIR App With FDT (Francis Varga)
• Creating project templates for FDT4 (Aiden Tailor)
• Import ASDocs into FDT (Matan Uberstein)
• Fixing the security sandbox issue in FDT 4 (Ain Tohvri)
• Embedding Assets with FDT (Will Costa)
• New Project Wizard (FDT Team)
• SDK Management (FDT Team)
• Project Type and Project Templates (FDT Team)
• Migration from FDT 3 (FDT Team)
• The Profiler (FDT Team)
• Flex 4 support (FDT Team)

Getting Started

• 7 things to do first when starting with FDT4 (aron/philipp)
• A Quick Overview of FDT (Jens Fischer)
• Setting up the Ultimate Flash Development Environment (Sascha Balkau)
• Keyboard Shortcuts (Riccardo Bartoli)
• FDT Tutorials To Get Started (Lionel Low)
• FDT Grundeinstellungen (video2brain) - German
• Videos: My Top 5 Timesavers in FDT and how to use them (Marcel Fahle)
  • Live Error Highlighting
  • Code Completion / Content Assist
  • QuickFix
  • Templates
  • Refactoring
• How to create a color-scheme for FDT (W.J. Warren)

FDT & Flash Authoring Workflow

• Use Flash Pro Assets in Actionscript and Flex Projects (Video) (David Ortinau)
• Flash and FDT: Simple Workflow Video (Brian Connatser)
• Configuring a flash professional project in FDT (Kevin Suttle)
• FDT and Flash IDE Integration (Andrew Rossi)
• AS 3.0 Workflow-Special:FDT-Flash (Jens Franke) - German
• Flash Components for FDT (John Barret)
• Flash & FDT via ANT (Julian Dolce)
• My Daily Use of Assets in FDT (Marvin Blase)

Code Templates

• Specifier Feature (Matan Uberstein)
• Generating property mutators using Templates (seamguru)
• Validate Constant (Jesse Freeman)
• A Better Trace, Generating Event Listeners, Declaring Event Names, Public/Private/Protected Functions, Singletons (breaktrycatch)
• Loops (forward/back), Switch, Setter, Class, ASDocs, Prop, Singleton, Separator (Michel Wacker)
• Template to automatically generate the HTML wrapper files (Michael Plank)
• FDT Quickfix Templates for Flint Particle System (Marvin Blase)

Linux Support

• Set up FDT on Linux (Francis Varga)
• FDT does work in Linux (Ricardo Cabelo - "Mr.doob")

Frameworks Support

• Setting up FDT with Alternativa3D
• Download Away3D project template for FDT (John Barret)
• FDT and FlexUnit 4.1 (Jonny Reeves)
• Robotlegs tutorial using FDT (John Lindquist)
• Robotlegs – Flash CS5 Project Template for FDT4 (Dave Gamez)
• Robotlegs Templates (Matan Uberstein)
• AssetLoader Robotlegs Test App Video Walk-Through (Matan Uberstein)
• PureMVC Console and FDT (Rico Schneider)
• PureMVC Templates (Pedr Browne)
• PureMVC Intro using FDT4 (Matthew Sloan Wallace)
• AS3 Signals Tutorial with FDT (John Lindquist)
• AS3 Signals Templates (Aiden Tailor)
• Flixel Templates (Fintan Boyle)

Ant Integration

• FDT and ANT | A User’s Guide – Part I (Alan Klement)
• FDT and ANT | A User’s Guide – Part II (Alan Klement)
• FDT and ANT – Part 1 (Matthijs C. Kamstra)
• FDT How-To: FTP Your Production Files with ANT (Alex Motzenbecker)
• FDT with ANT workflow (Jankees van Woezik)
• FDT, ANT and FTP (Erik van Nieuwburg)
• Introduction for Ant with FDT 3 (Ryan Taylor)
• Creating a swc library with selected packages in FDT (Anders Krarup)
• Compile AIR To Native .DMG or .EXE files with ANT (Marvin Blase)
• Running PHP Eclipse with FDT & ANT (Shane Johnson)
• Creating an SWC from code in FDT with ANT (Sidney de Koning)

Formatter

• FDT Tip: Be A Formatting King (Lionel Low)
• AS 3.0 Workflow-Special:FDT Formatter (Jens Franke) - German

Productivity Tips

• Create a SWC Library from FDT (Matthijs C. Kamstra)
• FDT Quickfix with- method params (Marvin Blase)
• FDT – Speed up your workflow with shortcuts (Aiden Tailor)
• FDT Workflow customization (Alan Klement)
• Using BulkLoader with FDT and Eliminating Parsing Errors (Jon MacDonald)
• Debugging in FDT 3.0 Enterprise (Sebastian-Weyrauch)
• Debugging AS3 from the browser using FDT (Juan Bonfante)
• Organising Your Imports (Lionel Low)
• To Build Automatically Or Not (Lionel Low)
• Configure Your Build Path (Lionel Low)
• Creating Working Sets (Lionel Low)
• AS 3.0 Workflow-Special:FDT-Flex SDK (Jens Franke) - German
• Create Font SWFs easily in FDT (Martin Rädlinger)
• AsDoc with FDT (Martin Rädlinger)
• Using CTRL-ENTER to compile ActionScript code in FDT (Jean-Philippe Côté)
• Remove warning messages from external libraries (Jean-Philippe Côté)

External Tools Integration

• Enhance your FDT setup even further with Eclipse plugins & ANT (Karl Freeman)
• Balsamiq + Napkee + FDT: working code in less than 3 minutes! (Enrico Berti)
• Setting up FDT using the MySQL Database Development perspective (John Barret)
• How to use EGit in FDT (Francis Varga)
• Setting up FDT and SOS (Doug Marttila)
• Setting up FDT to look and behave like FlashDevelop (Steven Sacks)
• Moving From Flashdevelop to FDT (Matthijs C. Kamstra)