flash support for web platform

[samyduc]

First of great work with this tool, it is what you need when you start to automate some processes.
I am currently developing a web game, and I badly need support for the Flash target.

What I am doing is actually checking the webgl capabilities of the browser (with modernizer for example) and if so, I run a small microbenchmark (sometimes on laptop, webgl will use the integrated graphic card of the player but usually in flash, it will go with big one by default) to decide if I am loading the flash player or the webgl version.

Is Flash support something that will come in a near future?

[ruby0x1]

Hi!

Well - let's start with:
“web” target is a fixed construct, it will never have multiple meanings.
If the “flash” target exists, that will be it's name, separate.

Secondly, there are two directions for this to take and I'll need your/the users input (because I don't use and never want to use flash any more) so it's important for their to be perspectives to what happens there.

And then to this:
Given the basic functionality;

• files command (copies things around)
• running haxe command with the project hxml (build)

What additional steps are required for a flash build from a flow file to make sense?

The second approach is more in depth, so it would help to better understand what you see happening with the flash target before I mention that direction :)

[samyduc]

Thank you for the response, sadly flash is I think, still a necessary evil.

For my use case, flash is similar to the web target. I need to embed it into a web page (so the template concept is neat for it).

Compilation options are the same than the web target (resources are also bundles with the app, like js). I do not have particular need except for the option to exist.

As you said, files command and running a build are the only things I see. I am not speaking about an AIR application or something more complex, just a fall-back for the webgl version.

[ruby0x1]

When you say the resources are bundled - I assume that maybe haxe handles the embedding for flash? The js target just copies files to the output folder and nothing more - unless using the haxe -resource flag, which embeds it.

Either way, I already have some changes in the pipeline from long ago that will allow this to work (and much more). I'll post back soon with some info on how to use it.

If you have other feedback - do add it here in the mean time (That goes for onlookers as well).

[samyduc]

Yes it is what I meant.

[ruby0x1]

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