If you run FDT on a Hackintosh netbook or maybe even though if you don’t, you might startup FDT first time and discover that it wants you to play with it’s .ini file.
On a windows machine, the file is fond easily, on a Mac less so.
Right-click on the FDT app (or Eclipse) and choose ‘Show package contents’ then click into that folder to find the eclipse.ini file.
I needed to replace the -Xmx512m line with -Xmx768m to get the app going.
Hope that helped.
Is now easier than ever.
Get the main install start here at Gizmodo. But you will have to do a bit more just to polish a few things:
Swapping keys:
You will notice that the Apple command(windows logo) and the alt key are swapped in terms of functionality. Just go to the keyboard settings in system prefs and click on Modifier keys at the bottom of the page.
Repair Disk Permissions:
- do this after install, to increase performance and to check everything is in order.
I had an odd permission setting going on where I had to set my account as admin on the main partition otherwise it gave me read-only permissions.
Non-functional Fxx keys:
Use the Fn key in combination and you will have that working. Easier than any other solution, which might disable your brightness and volume.
Touchpad:
You will have to setup the touchpad in the best possible way. The buttons on the pad are a pain to use, so I set the left and right mouse button to be single and two-fingered taps on the pad. This will make your work life much easier.
There you go, much better, no?
Solved: It took me a fair while to find anything on this that actually worked and the Flash Player Trust directory kept on popping up.
One will have to check the latest Flash Player security paper.
For Flash Player 9 you can find it here.
And you want to look for information on the: Global Flash Player Trust directory
On mac it is located at: /Library/Application Support/Macromedia/FlashPlayerTrust/
In there you can simply create a file with the suffix .cfg, which the Flash Player checks every time it starts up and plays an swf.
If the file or folder path is in that file, it is trusted and doesn’t throw sandbox errors anymore. In the above case, I haven’t tested if it’s the swf or the xml that Flash has to trust, but in my case they are both somewhere beyond the folder I added in the file (/Users/marcuskirsch/Documents/–JOBS/0064SCMI/201006AntennaFuture/DEV).
I named my file : fdtTrust.cfg
That means everything inside the DEV folder is kosher.
This one works for me and player 9 on Snow Leopard and FDT 3.5 enterprise, I haven’t checked on player 10 which might have all that in an Adobe folder rather than Macromedia(not sure about this), I guess the security paper on 10 will mention it.
UPDATE:
after wrestling with more than 3 other machines it seems I tried lots of things and missed the working one.
Here is the one that worked on my last machine:
set your workspace to trusted at this website:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
That should render it nicely.
Hope that helped you guys.
First: Have you installed all the flash debug players you want?
google: download flash debug player and you will get a list of players (standalone, plug-in) at Adobe that you can download for your OS. also here
How to install into FDT:
After downloading and installing the latest debug flash player from Adobe, tell FDT where it is by opening FDT and change the Preferences at:
Preferences > FDT > Tools > Flash Player
Browse to the player in the Flash folder or wherever you have placed your Flash Player.app(mac)
Reset your Debug or Run settings so that they use Adobe Flash Player.
This should get you started playing the swf in the Adobe Player.
Now this will still result in sandbox problem if you want to load xml files, etc. locally.
If you want to fix this, look up this blog entry.
nice little list I found:
| Mac | Win | Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMD+1 | CTRL+1 | Quick Fix | Generating Code | If Error exists |
| CTRL+Space | CTRL+Space | Auto Completion | Generating Code | Editing Code |
| F2 | F2 | Show Class/Interface in Flash Explorer | Navigation | Editing Code |
| F3 | F3 | Open Declaration | Navigation | Cursor over Type, Property, Function |
| F4 | F4 | Show Type Declaration | Navigation | Cursor over variable |
| CMD+T | CTRL+T | Quick Type Hierarchy | Navigation | Cursor over Type or Function |
| CMD+O | CTRL+O | Quick Outline | Navigation | Editing Code |
| CMD+7 | CTRL+7 | Toggle Comment | Code Editing | Editing Code |
| CMD+U | CTRL+U | Quick Type Dependency | Navigation | Editing Code |
| CMD+SHIFT+T | CTRL+SHIFT+T | Open Type | Navigation | Editing Code |
| CMD+R | CTRL+R | Find References | Search | Cursor over Type, Function, Property |
| CTRL+H | CTRL+H | Search in multiple Files | Search | Editing Code |
| CMD+D | CTRL+D | Delete Line | Code Editing | Editing Code |
| CMD+M | CTRL+M | Maximize/Minimize View | Perspective | Editing Code |
| CMD+L | CTRL+L | Go To Line | Navigation | Editing Code |
| CMD+0 | CTRL+0 | Quick Trace | Code Generation | Cursor over Property |
| CMD+SHIFT+F | CTRL+SHIFT+F | Format Code | Formatting | Editing Code |
| ALT+SHIFT+R | ALT+SHIFT+R | Rename | Refactoring | Editing Code |
| CMD+SHIFT+O | CTRL+SHIFT+O | Organize Imports | Generating Code | Editing Code |
Now I am just new to all this, yet been through the process enough to see that there are a few things here and there that appear a bit complicated whilst trying to achieve hooking up your project to SVN reposis. Here is my list, step-by-step, I hope it will help some of you.
Original setup: FDT 3 on macbook pro, snow leopard, with a CVSDude/Codesion account.
CVSDude/Codesion:
- set up an account for our project. there is plenty of discussion on having multiple projects per repository, I so far tend to separate them to have a single on for each project.
- add the subversion service (New)
- add a user or group with the appropriate privileges to the project under the ‘People’ section. If you are the admin of your subversion account, your name will already be added as default.
- copy the URL in the service list under Project Quickview next to Subversion
FDT
- in FDT go to the View/Perspective icon (top right) and if not already in the list, click on Other… and choose the SVN Repository Exploring perspective
- go to the window on the SVN Repositories window and right-click to add a New repository location
- paste your project Subversion URL into the URL field, enter your username and password in Authentication, click finish.
Now for some reason, sometimes the pasting adds the URL twice in two lines and you will receive an error. Just repeat the process above, choose the faulty URL from the dropdown this time and delete the additional URL from the textfield and connect again, it should let you in this time.
- add a ‘trunk’ and ‘tags’ folder to your repository, they will automatically recognized as special folders
- Go to the Flash FDT perspective
- create a Flash project
- Go to Team >Share Project
- Choose the project repository you ant to use for this project
- On the Specify Location screen in Simple Mode browse to the repository’s trunk to choose as location
- Finish
- On the first commit screen, tick off all files, that you don’t want to version control. E.g. for simplicity reasons, don’t commit anything with a ‘.’ in it’s name (e.g. .settings).
- After this first commit, go to all your files and folders that you want to snv:ignore for the future. Right-click > Team > Add to svn:ignore Most likely all not-dealt-with files will have a small question mark on them. After you set them to ignore, it will dissappear.
- Add a ‘lib’ folder to your flash project structure, it’s the place I put my swc’s. Right-click >Source Folder>Add to ClassPath and it will show the appropriate icon.
- commit the ‘lib’ folder by right-click>Team>Commit
- to finalize, Team>Update the whole flash project
- Now you can add other flash files by dragging them onto your src or lib folder and dont forget you Main.as, which I tend to place outside the src folder by creating a new class file and copy pasting or writing whatever needs to go in there. Most other existing class files can be added by drag drop on ‘src’
- Done
Hope that helped.
!!! Important: if you like to drag and drop your code files into a new flash project and youhave been using them in another subversed project be careful! SVN puts little hidden svn files in every folder. Use TinkerTool or something similar to show hidden files on your system and clean all those up otherwise they will mess with the SVN.
Finally found one: wp-syntax, seems to do the job. Love it!
Free folder synch (sorry, apple). 2GB free. Multi-platform. It’s a bit small for the free account, but one can boost it up to 5GB through recommendations.
It’s very handy, seems to work fairly fast, including a messaging system telling you when files and folders are updated.
It has a few limitations, but people are already working around this and the DropBox guys are constantly working on updates.
E.g if you want to sync folders outside your default DropBox folder there is a solution posted on lifehacker.
Or in short either use console (osx):
Use the ln command, for example:
ln -s /path/to/desired-folder ~/Dropbox/desired-folder
This works with files too:
ln -s /path/to/desired-file ~/Dropbox/desired-file
or this SymbolicLinker (osx) to create a symbolice link, which is what the above command does. The app does it way smoother though by extending your (CTRL+MouseClick) window.
Njoy,
Uncle Unvoid
