Developing with FAME (Flashout, ASDT, MTASC, Eclipse) works really nice. When I was working on a remoting application with AMFPHP I missed the NetConnection Debugger which had to run in a seperate window in a Flashplayer.
Christopher Allen from the MTASC mailinglist gave me a hint, that the PHPEclipse-plugin has an integrated Webbrowser.
After a bit of research I saw that not the complete plugin is needed for the integrated NetConnection Debugger. You only have to copy the plugin “net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.webbrowser_1.1.3″ into the Eclipse plugin directory. An overview about the PHPEclipse modules can be found here.
In Eclipse do the following: Window->Show View->Other->PHPEclipse Web Development->PHP Browser. Point the browser to the “NetConnection Debugger.swf” and that’s it.
The “NetConnection Debugger.swf” comes with the AS 1.0 Remoting Components. After installation you find the swf here: Documents & Settings\[USER]\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\Configuration\WindowsSWF.
You can also copy the “Service Browser.swf” and use it within Eclipse.
Nice Tip! I tried doing this earlier but I never figured away around having the flash IDE open.
Thank you a lot for the tutorial! This works great. I’ve inegrated Flash LiveDocs into Eclipsу using this tutorial!
Howd’u think, is it legal/correct to pack “net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.webbrowser_1.1.3″ into zip file and distibute it for using by Flash developers? Because the wholу PHPEclipse plugin is pretty large, 11 mb..
You are welcome!
and I hate handling with legacy issues.
I don’t know if it’s legal but who cares about 11MB in these days
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hi, is there a trick for using remoting (and the netconnection debugger) with MTASC ? all I get is a bunch of unused classes errors, and other wrong types errors in mx.remoting
a tutorial or something would be awesome
You have to fix all errors, also check http://soenkerohde.com/2005/04/11/mtasc-v2-components, which is very similar.
hi,
just a simple question of compatibility.
i want to use your technique for the netDebugger and the Admintools but the problem is the following:
actual version of flashout 0.2.1.2 works only with eclipse 3.1 and…
phpeclipse 1.1.4 works only with eclipse 3.0.x but not with eclipse 3.1.
you see the problem !
Is phpeclipse 1.1.3 compatible with eclipse 3.1 ?
I try to you only the webbrowser 1.1.3 of the phpeclipse plugin and I see.
If you a solution thanks for your answer.
I also only use the webbrowser 1.1.3 and it works with Eclipse 3.1.
Cheers,
Sönke
I try to run on Linux NetConnectionDebugger.swf with Fames, but when open remoting connection, information in NetConnectionDebugger fields is empty.
The reason may be because I don’t use #include NetDebug.as.
Do you know how to to run NetConnection Debugger with AS2 syntax ?
Cheers
Nikolay
Hi Nicolay,
check my AMFPHP example which uses only AS 2.0.
Thanks Sonke
Work Perfectly on Linux
After modify in 2 places on Macromedia Remoting Classes
1. In row 93 on mx.remoting.debug.GlobalLocalConnection
change
var suc:Boolean = true;
to
var suc = true;
2. and in mx.remoting.debug.commands.GetConfig
create contsructor and put super() there
and remove from GetConfigCommand() method super().
Thats is all to work on Linux
)
Thanks again
Hi Sönke,
thanks for sharing this nice idea!!
P.S. Your tip works fine with the Internal Web Browser too (Window -> Show View -> Other -> Basic -> Internal Web Browser). If anyone don’t want to install PHPEclipse…
Best
sectore
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