Comments on: Import / Export Existing Projects in FDT (Eclipse)

By: jon williams

jon williams — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:18:14 +0000

@NateJC – Great question — to which I don’t have a clear answer. I tend to set up a new project, and then copy the class files etc in manually. SVN is a huge wrinkle, naturally — it can be a huge mess if you change the file paths and then want to re-commit to the SVN repository.
I don’t know of a way to automatically convert FlashBuilder or FlashDevelop project files to FDT, but doing it manually isn’t impossible. The biggest hassle is managing SWCs and classpaths etc. So it’s pretty important to get the other developer to document as much of that as possible.

By: NateJC

NateJC — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:17:35 +0000

Great article. I have a related question:
Let’s say I received a large AS3 Flash Pro project from someone else via their svn. I want to begin working with this project in FDT. What is the process?It seems like creating a new project isn’t what I want because it tries to make new folders and/or files, but everything was already created by someone else and I don’t want anything new made. I tried “importing” a preexisting project, but it seemed to be looking for an FDT project file which I don’t have since this project was made by someone else (using who-knows what workflow).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks ahead of time…

By: Bruno Fonzi

Bruno Fonzi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:08:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Your wishes might become true! The FDT team has taken note
If you have any further requests, feel free to post them or vote your favorite one on http://bugs.powerflasher.com/