Project Organization

Since it becomes more and more possible to develop Flash content not only with the Flash IDE but with a set of the many open source and third party tools out there, one way to develop Flash applications is to use a traditional sense programming environment with features like an IDE, build files, version control system etc. This page will help how to organize your projects by using such environments.

Automated build process
When working on a larger project, there are probably more files than one which have to be compiled. Compiling them one by one would become bothersome soon. This is where an automated build process comes in handy. Besides that they are offering a number of other useful features like copying files and folders or launching the compiled application. There are a number of programs to handle the build process, many of them typically for languages like C/C++ like Make or GNUMake, but of most interest for us is the Java build system Ant which is supported by many development environments like Eclipse.

Eclipse/FDT
Articles for use with Eclipse and PowerFlasher FDT.
 * Universal buildfile for Eclipse and FDT