Getting Started Guide for Flash CS4 - Feedback wanted!

[bengarney]

Hey guys,

I have put a Getting Started Guide For Flash CS4 up on SVN. It shows you how to configure CS4 to use the PushButton Engine SDK, as well as walking you through building a Hello, World application and a platformer demo game.

If you are a CS4 guy, or have a spare ten minutes to read over it, we'd really appreciate any feedback you could offer. It's meant to get you going quickly, without assuming you're a master of the command line. You need to be able to make folders, create empty text files, copy-and-paste text, and that's about it. Oh - and follow instructions.

Once it passes muster, I am planning on adding screenshots so it is even easier to follow.

Let me know what you think!

[hiroki]

I try to PushButton Engine with Flash CS4 referring to Getting Started Guide For Flash CS4.
No problem running with Hello, World! and platformer demo game.

I wrote tutorial. Please see below(But, It written in Japanese...).

http://meseta.sblo.jp/article/28628241.html

[bengarney]

Wow! Thank you for making that!

Would it be OK if you we linked to it from the manual page?

[hiroki]

Wow! Thank you for making that!

Would it be OK if you we linked to it from the manual page?

Yes, please.
I modified that article.

[sergey]

Hi, in platformer demo game in output i recive:

[object ReferenceNote] - ReportMissing: [object Scene2DComponent][TrackObject] on entity 'Scene' - Couldn't find named entity 'Dude'
[object ReferenceNote] - _ReportSuccess: [object Scene2DComponent][TrackObject] on entity 'Scene' - After failure, was able to find named entity 'Dude'
[object ReferenceNote] - ReportMissing: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Dude' - Couldn't find named entity 'DudeSpriteSheet'
[object ReferenceNote] - ReportMissing: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Platform1' - Couldn't find named entity 'PlatformSpriteSheet'
[object ReferenceNote] - ReportMissing: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Platform2' - Couldn't find named entity 'PlatformSpriteSheet'
[object ReferenceNote] - ReportMissing: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Platform3' - Couldn't find named entity 'PlatformSpriteSheet'
[object ReferenceNote] - _ReportSuccess: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Dude' - After failure, was able to find named entity 'DudeSpriteSheet'
[object ReferenceNote] - _ReportSuccess: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Platform1' - After failure, was able to find named entity 'PlatformSpriteSheet'
[object ReferenceNote] - _ReportSuccess: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Platform2' - After failure, was able to find named entity 'PlatformSpriteSheet'
[object ReferenceNote] - _ReportSuccess: [object SpriteRenderComponent][SpriteSheet] on entity 'Platform3' - After failure, was able to find named entity 'PlatformSpriteSheet'

it's ok ?

[bengarney]

Yes. You're fine.

You'll see it's reporting that at first it can't find something, and then that later it did find it. We'll have to find a way to reduce the spam from that, it's confusing.

[bengarney]

Revision 84 suppresses this spam.

[Quire]

Hi Ben,

Followed the Getting Started just fine, although I, too, was confused by the Missing/Success spam.

(I tried downloading the individual r84 files btw, but that stopped things from working altogether. Also - what's up with SVN? I tried http://pushbuttonengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/, but that seems to miss a lot of files? The README in the Libraries directory states: "They cause too many conflicts to keep in SVN." which confused me a bit!)

As for feedback: that's fine as a general introduction, but there is obviously a long way to go yet! Good stuff so far, looking forward to seeing how I get on with more of the docs.

- Q

[wiz_makuro]

Hi, followed the guide and i am getting Error: Could not find group 'Everything' (Error #2032) in platformer example (Helloworld one worked fine).

[phil]

Hi, followed the guide and i am getting Error: Could not find group 'Everything' (Error #2032) in platformer example (Helloworld one worked fine).

Check to make sure you have the following in your level.pbelevel file:

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<group name="Everything">
<objectReference name="SpatialDB"/>
<objectReference name="Scene"/>
<objectReference name="Box2D"/>
<objectReference name="Dude"/>
<objectReference name="Platform1"/>
<objectReference name="Platform2"/>
<objectReference name="Platform3"/>
<objectReference name="DudeSpriteSheet"/>
<objectReference name="PlatformSpriteSheet"/>
</group>