Setup From Scratch Notes

These are my notes on step by step instructions I followed to get Flex-Pilot installed and working with the Adobe Demo ‘FlexStore’ Application.

Which you can download in a zip, here

Files in place

1. Extracted the demo app to my desktop, in a folder named ‘flexstore’
2. Downloaded the flex pilot source to my desktop, into a folder named flex-pilot.
   1. I did this using the following command to pull the latest source from github:
   2. git clone git://github.com/mde/flex-pilot.git
3. Download the binary FlexPilot.swf into the flexstore directory

Add the codez

1. I found the main mxml file, flexstore.mxml and opened it in my editor
2. I then added: applicationComplete="init();" to the mx:Application tag
3. Then I added the Flex-Pilot boot strapper import: import org.flex_pilot.FPBootstrap;
4. Then I added the actual init code, that assumes ‘FlexPilot.swf’ is in the same web directory as the app swf
   

   private function init():void {
            FPBootstrap.flex_pilotLibPath = 'FlexPilot.swf';
            FPBootstrap.init(stage);
   }
   

Build it

1. This happens to have a build script which I modified, but I tested it by running the following on the command line: mxmlc -source-path=. -source-path+=../flex-pilot/src flexstore.mxml
2. Keep in mind that the -source-path stuff just tells the compiler to look in that flex-pilot directory on the desktop to find the import of the boot strapper that we added.

What then?

View it and write/run tests and all kinds of goodness, which you can read more about here.