I am also compiling with the IDE because I use a lot of library assets in my projects. I WOULD like to see the output panel contents in the console of Eclipse, though, to save having to switch back and forth when debugging. So far I haven’t had much luck with that. Any tips on how to do this?

– Jay

A lot of developers out there will tell you that may not be the best way to work but for me it has worked great over the years. I don’t like command line stuff and i certainly am not good with ant builds and all that kind of stuff so this is my preference. All i really want out of eclipse/fdt is a way to write code faster and neater, not necessarily to build/compile my projects because i can just save my files in fdt, alt tab to flash and press ctrl enter and see it built right there. not a big issue for me and my preferred way of working.

I actually plan to do a video tutorial on how i work on an everyday basis once I get some free time from this cursed project i’m currently on

Do you recommend working this way, Scripting in FDT and compiling in flash?

Is there an alternative? I know you can use the flex sdk to compile from FDT but is it worth it?

Thanks again.

The answer is yes, you absolutely need to set the classpaths in Flash as well. eclipse/FDT and the linked libraries you set in there will only be used by eclipse/FDT and if you’re compiling through Flash, Flash will still need to also know where those libraries are on your machine as well so you will have to set those classpaths in there as well.

I’m new to FDT. I have a question.

I’ve now created a FDT project and added some libraries using “Link Libraries” like you showed. I have eclipse/FDT nicly setup. Question is, do I need to add those libraries class paths within flash also? How will flash know where to look for those? because they have been setup in eclipse and I will be publishing from flash.

Any explanation would be great

Thanks