Converting AS3 projects to Apollo
April 11th, 2007Yesterday I received a comment from Ian Stokes. He was asking for the easiest way to convert an existing AS3 project into Apollo Application, this is indeed something a lot of people are missing in Apollo examples so I wrote this short step-by-step tutorial that should clear things out.
Using Flex Builder 2:
- File > New > Apollo Project
- Select “Basic”, click “Next”
- Enter project name (and location if needed), click “Finish”
- Using the navigator panel (Window > Project Navigator) delete the “[your_apollo_name].mxml” and “[your_apollo_name]-app.xml” file from the newly created Apollo project.
- Using the navigator panel select the contents of an existing AS3 project and select copy from the right click menu, and paste them into Apollo project folder
- Confirm any overwrites in the popup dialog.
- Right click on the “[your_application_name].as” file that was pasted into Apollo project folder, and select “Set as Default Application”.
- In the popup window – enter the requested meta information, and click “Finish”. A new file “[your_aplication_name]-app.xml” has been created.
- Run the Apollo application
That’s it, hope it made things a bit more clear! And if you have any interesting questions, feel free to shoot them into the comments section anywhere in the site.
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April 11th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
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April 11th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Thanks a lot for writing this article.
Cheers
Ian
April 12th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
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April 16th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Hi,
I was finding something similar like this.
I have a flex project completely built and I want to convert the same into Apollo.
Do I follow the same procedure as for action script project or is there something more that I have to do in order to make my flex project running in Apollo.
Thanks in advance.
April 16th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Rahul,
You would have to follow the same procedure as for AS project, the only difference is that you have to set your main *.mxml file (and not *.as) as a default application file.
Hope that helps, If you will have any further issues post them here.
Cheers
Paulius Uza
April 16th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Thanks a lot Uza, You made by day. Apollo indeed is pretty cool.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Hi Uza,
Yesterdays after yesterdays tip , I got into another issue.I have 4 flex projects,which run independently.Now, I have one more project, which is the main menu and uses swf loader to load the corresponding 4 projects.
Now I have to convert all of this into apollo. Any idea how I can go thru with this?
April 17th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Hey Rahul,
All you have to do is to convert the loader menu into Apollo application, and copy the 4 projects you are loading into the Apollo application dir.
/
- /PR1
- /PR2
- /PR3
- /PR4
- Loader Application.as
When exporting to deployable *.air file, include the PR folders into your project by selecting them in the popup window.
After installation your PR1 folder will be accessible under app-resource:/PR1 .
app-resource:/ points to root directory of the installed application (the directory that contains the application.xml file for the installed application)
Hope that will help you!
Cheers
April 18th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Thanks Uza. I will check it out and let you know.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Hi Uza,
Was trying to implement your tips, and a very funny error evoked.My application gives a call to a webservice which populates the data. Now, as soon as the service is fired, I get the following error:
Error: Could not find resource bundle formatters
at mx.resources::ResourceBundle$/getResourceBundle()
at mx.formatters::DateBase$cinit()
at global$init()
at mx.formatters::DateFormatter/format()
at VM_proj_ver10/gridFormatDT()
at mx.controls.dataGridClasses::DataGridColumn/itemToLabel()
at mx.controls.dataGridClasses::DataGridBase/mx.controls.dataGridClasses:DataGridBase::makeListData()
at mx.controls.dataGridClasses::DataGridBase/mx.controls.dataGridClasses:DataGridBase::makeRowsAndColumns()
at mx.controls::DataGrid/mx.controls:DataGrid::makeRowsAndColumns()
at mx.controls.listClasses::ListBase/mx.controls.listClasses:ListBase::updateDisplayList()
at mx.controls::DataGrid/mx.controls:DataGrid::updateDisplayList()
at mx.core::UIComponent/validateDisplayList()
at mx.managers::LayoutManager/::validateDisplayList()
at mx.managers::LayoutManager/::doPhasedInstantiation()
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
I tried to import the following
mx.resources.ResourceBundle;
mx.formatters.DateBase;
But still the result is same.
One more fact I want to share is that I am using Date Formatter in my application, which my suspect is the problem area.
If I run the same application without using swfLoader, then it works absolutely fine.
Any idea about this??
Thanks in advance.
May 10th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Rahul,
I have been having the same problem, and I just figured out a way around it. The problem occurred when I tried to use the DateFormatter within a SWF file that was loaded through the SWFLoader. My solution involves cross-scripting, which isn’t a problem if the loading SWF file and the loaded SWF file are on the same domain. What I did was I instantiated an instance of the DateFormatter class in the top level/loading SWF file. Then, from the loaded/child SWF file I used the already instantiated DateFormatter by calling Application.application.date_formatter (where date_formatter is the name of the variable that contains the DateFormatter instantiation). This solved the problem for me.
Hopefully this will help someone else out as well, as I have spent hours trying to figure this out.
May 10th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Thanks for your comment Natiupiru, I hope it will be useful to other readers.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Yonas I’m afraid you misunderstood something here. We are talking about Adobe AIR (former codename Apollo) in this blog post.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Apologies, I am out here.
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