Use NetLab Toolkit with other IDE's?

[David p]

Hi,

Is it possible to use NetLab Toolkit with Flash Develop?

[Philip van Allen]

Not sure what you mean by Flash Develop?

[David p]

http://www.flashdevelop.org/

The best code editor there is.

And what I mean is do you need to be using the Flash environment, or can you use say Flash Develop / Flex environment?

[Philip van Allen]

Okay I understand. I guess there are two options

1) If FlashDevelop works with the Flash Professional environment, then
yes. The Flash widgets have code interfaces, so you can get at the
signals passing through them. For example, if you look at the Insert
widget, you'll see how to add ActionScript.

http://www.netlabtoolkit.org/reference/widgets/logic-processing/insert/

2) It's also possible to talk directly to the Hub, and bypass the
widgets. You'll need to create a socket connection to the Hub and use
a standardized set of commands to do so. See this page for more info:

http://www.netlabtoolkit.org/reference/hub/

.phil

[DennisH]

Hi Phil,

Is there still no way to use the flash components with other IDEs link Flash Builder or FlashDevelop using the latest release?

I have tried;

1. Creating a component with AS in Flash Builder e.g. _dmxOut = new DmxOut(); and adding it to the stage but it returns the following error:

   TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

   at org.netlabtoolkit::WidgetBase()

   at org.netlabtoolkit::Widget()

   at org.netlabtoolkit::WidgetOutput()

   at DmxOut()

   
   

2. Wrapping the DMXOut component in a movieClip in flash and export as a swc for use in Flash Builder or Flash Develop. Results in the same error..

3. Load a working swf file (with the DMXOut component) into my Flash Builder project but again the results are the same.

The WidgetBase, Widget and WidgetOutput components seems to be the obvious reason for the error but they are not included in the widgets folder.  Is there a reason for this or can they be added to the FlashWidgets folder and an updated version of the ToolKit be made available for download?

Thanks,

Dennis

[DennisH]

Hi Phil,

My response to your message below and the missing WidgetBase, Widget and WidgetOutput components seems to have been deleted. I appreciate messages to the group are moderated but can you please let me know if this was the case with my post.

Thanks,

Dennis

On Friday, September 30, 2011 12:55:44 AM UTC+1, Philip van Allen wrote:

[Philip van Allen]

Hi Dennis,

I just needed to approve your comments - now they are all there.

Regarding WidgetBase, Widget and WidgetOutput, those are classes, not components. You could go to the github repository and get those classes and try incorporating them. All of the Flash code is there if you want to work with it.

Look in the "org" folder for all the shard class files.

https://github.com/netlabtoolkit/widgets-flash

.phil

[DennisH]

Thanks Phil.