Setting up Staring in FDT 4 flash.display.Stage issue

[matthewswallace]

I am wanting to get started with Starling and I use FDT. I have Flex 4.5.1 / AIR 3 / flash 11 player global all setup and working. I am following the examples lee put up on gotoandlearn.com for getting started with starling.

I don't know if this is an issue with FDT or with the way I am setting things up but I get an error in the Starling.as file for passing in Stage in the constructor function witch is typed to flash.display.Stage. http://grab.by/b2dc

Not sure how to get around this issue. Of course Starling.as also references the starling "Stage" so I do understand why typing vars in the class with the full package is needed.

Anyone know how to get around this ?

[alanklement]

Could you provide a sample project please, I'll look right at it.

[alanklement]

Ahh so Patrick has provided a bug...

[matthewswallace]

If you use FDT and want to check out Starling-Framework please vote this up http://bit.ly/pYqVtD

[PrimaryFeather]

Finally, I had a look at this: you can easily turn off the errors and warnings of FDT, at least in the latest version (FDT 5).
The tricky thing is to find the correct settings. ;-)

You can do that either globally for all FDT projects, here:

FDT - Preferences:
  FDT / Problems / AS3 Problems

or only in the settings of the Starling project:

Project Settings:
  FDT Problems / AS3
    Enable project specific problems

Change the following settings to "Disabled":

Type Problems
  Types are not compatible

Unresolvable
  Unresolvable variable reference
  Unresolvable variable reference in E4X
  Unresolvable member reference in dynamic object

Declarations
  Parameter is never used

[matthewswallace]

Thanks for looking into this. I think the guys at FDT actually fixed this issue in both 4 and 5.

[alanklement]

Yeah guys, I thought this was fixed. We'll look at it again.

[PrimaryFeather]

Thanks, Alan! I appreciate it!

[e-is-me-squared]

Just a quick note, You can work around it by:
var st:* = stage;
_starling = new Starling(rootClass, st);

Dirty fix that works.

[matthewswallace]

@DeepPlateMC ... interesting. That's a good workaround.

[alanklement]

Is this still an issue for you guys? If you're using FDT 4, then it will persist because we fixed it in FDT 5. Is anyone here still having problems using this framework with FDT 5?

[matthewswallace]

I am having error issues in FDT 5 and submitted a bug to the FDT team about it. My understanding is they are going to look at this next week as one of there QA people is out on vacation this week.

[alanklement]

Could you tell me about them. I'm the Product Manager and I've been talking with you on Twitter. I know some of the problems but if you have more, I'd like to learn about them.

Email me ak [at] powerflasher.com

[matthewswallace]

Alan, sent you an email via m [at] mattwallace.me

[digitaljohn]

I'm having this issue again... Using the latest version of everything (FDT 5.0.0.1460 Starling 1.0, Flex SDK 4.6.0).

E.g.

Incompatible types Texture and Texture. Found at line 107 column 18. TextureAtlas.as /starling/starling/src/starling/textures

Any ideas?

[alanklement]

Hey guys,

Check out this ticket in our Jira. You can be kept up to date and learn about a work around.

http://bugs.powerflasher.com/jira/browse/FDT-2356