TypeScript for Adobe AIR

Create Adobe AIR apps with the TypeScript language.

This is a work-in-progress still beginning. Roadmap.

Example

import {Rectangle} from 'com.adobe.air/geom';

Blank projects will be created through ts4air new.

Documentation

• TypeScript Introduction
• Configuration
• FFI
• Optimizations
• TypeScript Internals

Research

• AVM2 Overview
• AS3 Specification
• ECMA-262
• ECMA-357
• SWF Specification
• TypeScript Compiler API
  • https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compiler-API
  • https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/7c14aff09383f3814d7aae1406b5b2707b72b479/lib/typescript.d.ts#L78
    • Symbols are mixed with nodes.
• Use swfdump or FFDec to get an idea of what ABC and SWF files contain.
  • http://www.swftools.org
• SWF and ABC writing
  • https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/blob/master/swf/src/write.rs
  • https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/blob/master/swf/src/avm2/write.rs
  • https://github.com/brion/wasm2swf
    • Output SWF based on https://github.com/brion/wasm2swf/blob/0457dc2a3d188f21446de98282a3267d381ccc10/src/wasm2swf.js#L2059
  • https://github.com/rafaeldias/swf-reader/blob/master/lib/swf-buffer.js