I have to create Flash application with AS3 and use functions in DYLIB.
Let say the function name is Open();
Is it possible? And how do I add the DYLIB into my AS3 project?
EDIT
Ok as I can see from the comment, I need to wrap the DYLIB. I am not sure how to do it. Can anyone help ?
To get a dynamic library to work with AIR you must create an ANE (AIR Native Extension) that uses the dylib. The ANE you create should expose parts of the library that you require as AS3 functions.
There are many tutorials available for creating ANEs, start with:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/extending-air.html
Once you've created the ANE that accesses the dylib, when packaging your application you must go through a few additional steps to correctly sign the dynamic library.
make sure you are using AIR 27+
add a Frameworks directory to your application at the root level
ensure this directory is packaged with your application
place any dynamic libs and frameworks in this directory
These libraries will then be correctly signed with your application certificate.
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I'm developing a Windows Phone 8.1 app that also targets Android(Xamarin)
As ever I added my string resources(.resx) on a PCL and referenced them on my launcher project to use it on my views, this all works fine on WP 8.1 silverlight but on the WinRt when I configure the project to release and run it on a device, for some reason I always get a MissingManifestResourceException. I've tried every solution for this problem out there without any success.
Note that on the emulator everything works fine, when the solution configurator is set to Debug it also works on both device and emulator. The only combination here is device and Release.
The app source code is on Github.
I was able to create a simple project to replicate this issue, basically it is a WP 8.1 app and a PCL project with the embedded resources, Download Link
Anyone has any ideas?
EDIT: After making some more testing I tried running an old Windows 8.1 app that I've done with the same localisation model and the same issue appeared so it seams to be a tool issue and not a configuration issue, since the Windows 8.1 app is on the market and everything went fine back there.
Our team ran into a similar issue which was tracked down to the runtime and not the PCL, WinRT component, or application package. That is, the resources exist within the PCL assembly, within the application package resources.pri file, but just cannot be found at runtime.
There is an active Microsoft Connect report here:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/991028/issue-using-resx-files-on-winrt-apps-windows-phone-and-windows
Our workaround was for the WinRT component to inject into each generated Resources class of each referenced PCL our own derived ResourceManager which redirected the call to the WinRT ResourceLoader instead. I've written a blog post that describes that workaround:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/philliphoff/archive/2014/11/19/missingmanifestresourceexception-when-using-portable-class-libraries-in-winrt.aspx
I got to the bottom of this today. While bundling the app package, resources in dependencies that are not for a language being used by the app are stripped out. To prevent this from happening, add the following assembly-level attribute to your application.
using System.Resources;
[assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage("en")]
I had the same behaviour. Today I created a new PCL Library (with another name) and copied the resx file to this project. I modified all references and everything just works fine in my WinRt (Windows Store) App now!
There was the string 'resources' in the portable class library name. Perhaps this was the problem!
I am able to reproduce this issue launching DVD sample and unfortunately in my project. I have an WP Silverlight 8.1 project registering a Windows Runtime Component Background Task and both of them using a Portable Class Library sharing some common localized strings as resources (.resx), among other things. The exception is thrown from Background Task when calling any property to get strings on generated .Design.cs class (only Release + Device).
In order to fix this I tried, without success, to use directly ResourceManager and/or to add .resx files directly into the Background Task.
I ended-up porting needed strings to .resw files and use the new "WinRT preferred" way via Windows.ApplicationModel.Resources.ResourceLoader in the Background Task project.
Seems to me that ResourceManager is not compatible with Windows Runtime anymore in release.
This is not necessary an answer, but is better than nothing since I do not have 50 reputation points for a comment.
I've got an ActionScript Library project which is shared between an ActionScript and an ActionScript Mobile project. It works nicely for sharing everything I need in the two projects, but I'd now like to share an Adobe Native Extension between the two projects.
There's a 'Native Extensions' tab for adding them on the [ActionScript Build Path] screen in both the AS and AS Mobile projects, but not the ActionScript Library project.
I tried adding the ANE via the 'Add SWC' dialog on the [Build Path] screen in the Library project (there is a filter for *.ane on the file browser), but the project then failed to run with a VerifyError: Error #1014: Class myANE could not be found.
Does anyone know if it is possible to add ANEs to ActionScript Library projects, or can they only be added directly to ActionScript or ActionScript Mobile projects?
Many thanks in advance for any advice.
Not in Flash Builder, no. You can do it in IntelliJ (I am in the middle of trying to make the switch right now and that has been a fantastic feature so far). If your ANE is open source, as quite a few are, it is likely the SWC used by the dev to compile the ANE is included in the source code, or you could generate yourself. The SWC is the only portion of the ANE required to compile any kind of AIR app or library. You'll have runtime errors if you don't include the ANE in the app, but that is a given regardless.
So if you have the SWC or can compile one, add that as an external library to your project.
When reading about WP8 C++ project template, I see
Windows Phone Empty Dynamic Link Library
A project for creating a native dynamic-link library for a Windows
Phone app.
Windows Phone Empty Static Library
A project for creating a native static library for a Windows Phone
app.
What are static library and dynamic link library mean to WP8?
Supposed I have my Windows library source (openssl for example), do I need to convert to WP8 static library to be consumed by WP8 apps?
Whether I use WP8 static or dynamic link library, I must wrap them in WP8 runtime component in order for my app to consume, am I right ?
At the basic level, static and dynamic libraries are the same as any other Windows environment (so see this other SO question for more clarification).
For a WP8 app you will either need to produce:
A XAML .NET/Windows Runtime hybrid app.
A DirectX C++/C project (usually a game).
For 1. you would need to wrap up either your static .lib or .dll in a WP8 Runtime component, for your .NET side to consume.
For 2. it looks like you end up building a traditional .exe. In that case you would link directly to your .lib or .dll in the normal way. (I not so familiar with this one, so may be missing some subtleties here).
In any case it's easier to link everything if you have all the source code in VS and reference the projects that build .lib or .dll you need, rather than the referencing the binaries themselves.
That way you can ensure all the code is built to target the correct runtime environment (targetting the Phone APIs, using the correct CPU architecture). Also VS should then automatically add all dependencies into your final XAP package.
I'm trying to follow a tutorial here:
http://www.as3nui.com/airkinect-2-0-is-here/
which deals with developing an AirKinect application in Flash Builder 4.6, which I've installed. But when I follow the steps, a bunch of menu commands that the tutorial accesses are not available to me. I'm developing an Actionscript project. When I go to the project properties, and click the actionscript build path from the left, in the video there are 3 tabs - source path tab, library tab, and native extensions tab, but I don't see native extensions tab. Furthermore, on the left, he has a menu called Actionscript build packaging - I do not have this. Lastly, he uses a command stage.nativeWindow.visible = false - when I use that it says it is an undefined property. I think that all of these issues have to do some how with the matter of native applications in flash builder, but I'm not sure. Anyone know what's going on?
You've probably started your project with the wrong settings. When you create a new ActionScript Project in Flash Builder 4.6, you can choose how it will run: in a browser or using AIR:
You should select the button "Desktop (runs in Adobe AIR)" under 'Application Type'. Then you will also see that native extensions tab in your project properties.
I don't know how to change an existing project into an AIR Desktop project but it should not be too difficult to create a new one and move your existing code into it.
Am I blindly missing a method for creating a hidden file or directory in an AIR / AS3 desktop app? Re-combing the docs, all I see is the File.isHidden read-only property. I know I could do this via NativeProcess and native code, but I'm hoping to avoid creating native code.
Thanks!
In Mac and Linux you only need to put a dot (".") in front of the file/folder name.
For Windows is a little bit more complicated since it is a property of the file. I've done it in the past by calling the "attrib" command, but yeah, you would need NativeProcess for that AFAIK.
Juan