Sharing and Archiving Projects

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FDT offers various ways to share and archive your projects. This is nearly essential when working within a team environment and useful when developers want a way to archive their projects while keeping all their settings intact.

FDT 4 now has a powerful and unique feature: by default it creates a project configuration file and saves it into your project. This allows specific project settings to be saved and even transferred between FDT users.

There are two primary ways to share projects.

  1. Importing and Exporting project folders or compressed project folders.
  2. Using a revision control system such as SVN or GIT.

Both can use FDT’s saved Launch Configuration preferences.

Contents

Exporting Projects

First thing to do is to make sure the target project, or projects, are open. To open a project that is closed, right click on the project icon within the Flash Explorer and select Open Project or just double click on it Img preview.png.

To start, either chose File>Export Img preview.png from the menu bar or right click within the Flash Explorer and select Export... Img preview.png.

What will appear is the Export Wizard Img preview.png. There are lots of options available, but to share projects, focus on these two options:

  • Archive File
  • File System


Using both is the largely the same. If outputing with Archive File FDT will compress all selected project(s) into one file, whereas exporting with File System will just copy the files and folders to the selected location.

For this example, we're going to export via an Archive File, so select that Img preview.png.

Next, we need to choose which projects to export. Again, if a project is closed within the Flash Explorer, it will not appear within the Export Wizard Img preview.png.

If desired, certain directories can be selectively excluded from export. This is useful if a project contains source code or assets that you may not wish to share Img preview.png.

When ready to export, click Browse... to select a destination Img preview.png. In this case, the export will be to a .ZIP file. Give a name for the .ZIP file Img preview.png. When ready, hit Finish and FDT will export the selected resources Img preview.png.

Importing Projects

Importing projects is even simpler than exporting them. Begin by choosing Import from either the File menu Img preview.png or by right clicking within the Flash Explorer Img preview.png. This time, there is just one option to take note of, and that is Existing Projects into Workspace Img preview.png. Choose that and click Next.

If the projects were exported using the File System option, choose Select root directory Img preview.png. If the projects were exported via Archive File, like earlier in this tutorial, choose Select Archive File Img preview.png. When ready, click Browse... Img preview.png and choose the target file or directory Img preview.png.

When selected, FDT will scan for valid projects and show them here Img preview.png. If none are found, No projects are found to import will be displayed here Img preview.png.

Using A Revision Control System

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FDT ships with an integrated SVN client. This makes exporting and importing projects extremely easy.

Export an Existing Project

When a project already exists in a repository, exporting it is just one click. If a folder contains a valid .project file, FDT will automatically recognize it as a Flash Project when checked out from the repository. When inside of FDT's SVN Repository Exploring perspective, just right click on the project root within the repository and select Check Out. FDT will then automatically download the project to your workspace and add it as an open project.

Create a Project Into A Repository

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