Total Objective C Native Extension development in Flash Develop on Windows

In order Flash Develop to support some Objective C highlighting we need to do some upgrade. Open MainMenu.xml from FlashDevelop installation/Settings folder and add:

This would add additional item in menu.

 Now add M.fdt in FlashDevelop install\Templates, which is template for creation basic Adobe Native Extension .m file. Add M.xml FlashDevelop install\Languages which contain keywords/functions set and which would add on ObjectiveC .m,.h,.mm syntax coloring styles. M.xml contains also FlashExtension functions/keywords.(Note some work on adding keywords of most of used frameworks if not all should be done)

 Now we have syntax highlighting we need IOS SDK on windows. Pierre-Marry Baty have done tremendous work to bring Apple IOS SDK on windows and keep updated with every release. I deeply we encourage you to donate to support his work. He also built template that you can run in Visual Studio.
Download and install IOS Build Environment.

 Create folder Adobe AIR.framework inside IOSBuildEnvrionment\SDK\System\Library\Frameworks and copy content of your AIRSDK\runtimes\air\mac\Adobe AIR.framework\Versions\1.0 into.

 Copy Flash Develop template into installFlashDevelop\Projects folder and open project

 Execute Run.bat. Voilla !!! Library is created.
 Now you can use other Flash develop template to create your Adobe Native Extension. 

And if you are lazy just copy this into your FlashDevelop and have fun.



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