Hi,
1. Suggest we rename the application PackageApacheFlex (or
PackageApackeFlexSDK).
2. AIR may not be in FLEX_HOME so modify the build script to be something like
this:
#Flex Locations
FLEX_HOME=<path to flex home>
FLEX_TASKS=${FLEX_HOME}/lib/flexTasks.jar
#Compilers
AIR_HOME=<path to air SDK home>
ADL=${AIR_HOME}/bin/adl
ADT=${AIR_HOME}/lib/adt.jar
3.On OSX using AIR 3.2 if you try and build you get this issue:
packagenative:
[java] Native signing not supported on mac
This is a bug with adt on OSX and that you have to move the "-target native" to
be last argument.
Then if you run it you get:
packagenative:
[java] Found signing arguments and an AIR file as input. AIR files are
already signed
If you remove all of the signing argument (see below) the build works.
<target name="packagenative" depends="compile, certificate, packageair"
unless="unsupportedOS"
description="Packages the AIR file from the build directory to
create a native installer (exe/dmg) file">
<java jar="${ADT}" fork="true"
failonerror="true"
maxmemory="512m">
<arg value="-package"/>
<arg value="-target"/>
<arg value="native"/>
<arg value="${RELEASE_DIR}/${APP_NAME}.${extension}"/>
<arg value="${BUILD_DIR}/${APP_NAME}.air"/>
</java>
</target>
And I can install and run the application from the dmg. However no idea if that
still works on windows - perhaps we need a different build target for each OS?
Some further feedback/ideas on the application:
4. Very minor layout issue with the browse and install buttons and the file
path text input they are vertically aligned top not bottom or middle which I
think would look better.
5. I'm not sure it's entirely obvious what you need to browse to in
application? Perhaps add "Location of Apache Flex SDK" as a label or tool tip
to the browse text field.
6. After clicking on install may be a good idea to disable the browse button.
7. Very minor. Tool tip on 5 step "Unzip Adobe AIR runtime" isn't 100% correct
it should be using "Untar Adobe AIR runtime".
8. Loosing an internet connection 1/2 way though a download gives "Aborting
installation" perhaps "Unable to package Apache Flex SDK" would be a better
message? In this state if you hit browse again the step counters are not being
reset.
9. Nice if the install log window was centred horizontally when it pops up.
10. Console log is a list (I made that change sorry) may be better if it was a
text field so entire log and be copied and pasted.
Thanks,
Justin
