I am trying the FDT editor on a project that previously ran successfully in Flash CS3.
FDT builds and runs it successfully but the SWF is blank (white). I've tried a few viewers on the output file and it is actually blank.
One difference is that now my project doesn't seem to include my entry .fla
file. I'm new to Flash/ActionScript and am wondering whether that FLA file included some magic akin to a public static void Main
method in other languages.
So, if I'm building an application purely in ActionScript 3 (no .fla
files) how do I specify the entrypoint, canvas size, etcetera?
Of course, it's possible that I have set up FDT incorrectly :)
EDIT: Newbie alert!
Turns out that the white stage I was seeing via FDT was because my FLA was running in a different folder and I couldn't load any of my resources, so nothing was ready to display. I also had FDT configured in such a way that I wasn't seeing the error via the debugger.
This question is a bit dumb. Is it normal to delete questions like this?
For anyone else coming at Flash/ActionScript from a solid programming background, I found this to be a pretty good overview of the display model:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=05_Display_Programming_02.html#152593