Comments on: Vote for AS3 AIR Projects in Flex Builder

By: nlmoreaux

nlmoreaux — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:14:34 +0000

it’s simple, just remember this.stage.nativeWindow.activate();

By: kurt

kurt — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:15:06 +0000

hey, i want to vote that we should have an option for creating air projects in as3 as part of the workflow… super lame that you can’t… no idea what they were thinking at adobe, excluding as3 from default projects. i would vote but not into signing up just to vote for a feature.

By: Adrian Parr

Adrian Parr — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:18:38 +0000

Are you now allowed to create an AS3 only AIR project in Flash Builder? I’ve had a quick look and it doesn’t appear you can easily.

By: Juan Bermudez

Juan Bermudez — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:16:34 +0000

A bit late but I did the following:

- Created Flex/AIR Project putting you src wherever your main class for the AIR APP
- Change main .mxml to .as (Main.as for example)
- wrote in Main.as:

package {
import flash.display.Sprite;

public class Main extends Sprite
{

public function ToolBox()
{
trace(“Hello AIR”);
}
}
}

- Create Flash Air File
- Set Doc Class to mains.as

Now use Flex Builder to write some AS3 with Air Support and use Flash tu publish your appication at the end

LEt me know if you already got a better way.

Cheers

By: jonathan

jonathan — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:12:16 +0000

JBOY,

would you be able to elaborate a little more? I have added the airglobal.swc to source path, but it still appears to be just exported a SWF. How do you then create an AIR app? Are you just opening up a FLA and using the AS from your FB3 project and exporting as AIR?

thanks!

By: SK

SK — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:29:49 +0000

George, I am having the same issue.

Tried changing the main file to .as, tried deleting the MXML file and creating a new Sprite subclass set as default application and when run / debug get nothing.

I sometimes get the error:

Process terminated without establishing connection to debugger.
invocation forwarded to primary instance

(When debugging)

I have noticed that the Library Path does not include the playerglobal SWC library, and have tried adding that, also with no success. Please someone who has got this working explain exactly how you did it as I need to see how effective this Flex AS3 AIR workaround is for an urgent project.

By: George

George — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:42:32 +0000

No, it’s a proper actionscript project (it’s a simple hello world). Just to make sure I copy and pasted the actionscript directly into another project which was exported as a plain SWF and it worked fine.

If there isn’t anything I need to do beyond simply creating a proper .as file then I’ll chalk it up to a flex builder linux specific issue.

Basically, the as is being exported as a working swf to the default bin-debug folder (I can run the swf and it works fine) but it seems as if the next step (turning the swf into an AIR app) isn’t taking place.

By: kp

kp — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:12:40 +0000

what is in test.as? if it’s still an mxml document, it won’t work. you need to create an actual class that extends Sprite or MovieClip.

By: George

George — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:07:46 +0000

Can someone provide an expanded version of the workaround? I’m trying to get it running but I’m having issues. I tried to create a new Flex AIR project and I switched the main application file from test.mxml to test.as, but it doesn’t compile anything. Is there some obvious extra step I’m missing? Is there something that needs to be in my .as file?

By: kp

kp — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:06:54 +0000

Yes, there are other workarounds. The point is that I think this is, or could be, a common workflow, and should be supported as such, without requiring workarounds.

Also, as I said, if a beginner comes to Flex Builder with the idea of making an AS3-based AIR application, they aren’t going to know about workarounds. They’re going to see no option for this, only an option for Flex-based AIR apps. The obvious conclusion is that AIR requires Flex, which is completely false.