Installation

From FlashDevelop

Contents 1 Installing / Upgrading 1.1 Prerequisites 1.2 Installation Options 1.3 Associated File Types 1.4 Clean Install 1.5 Upgrading

Installing / Upgrading

Prerequisites

• Flash Player 10.1 ActiveX runtime (required by the browser control) Adobe Download Page
• Java 1.6 runtime (JRE) (required if using the Flex SDK)

Installation Options

• Desktop Shortcut: Adds a FlashDevelop shortcut to the desktop.
• Quick Launch Shortcut: Adds a FlashDevelop shortcut to the Quick Launch Toolbar.

• Advanced Options:
  • Standalone Mode: Installs a flag file (".local") to the application directory to instruct FlashDevelop use only local setting files.
  • Multi Instance Mode: Installs a flag file (".multi") to the application directory to run FlashDevelop in multi instance mode. WARNING: Settings across instances do not work properly.
  • Registry Modifications: Adds the uninstall information to the Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows in order to cleanly uninstall the program later, if desired. It will also associate FlashDevelop-specific file types with FlashDevelop (so you can open them by double-clicking), but it will not change the associations for any Flash native filetypes such as .fla or .as.

Associated File Types

• Project Files (*.fdp, *.hxproj, *.as2proj, *.as3proj)
• Documentation Project Files (*.docproj)
• Argument Files (*.fda)
• Template Files (*.fdt)
• Binary Files (*.fdb)
• Layout Files (*.fdl)
• Macro Files (*.fdm)
• Zip Files (*.fdz)

Clean Install

Clean install removes all traces of the program and reinstalls it. Here's how to do it:

• Backup your syntax files, snippets, file templates and project templates (if customized).
• Uninstall FlashDevelop with settings, this is an option in the uninstaller.
• Install the new FlashDevelop release in normal mode to your program files.
• Restore your syntax files, snippets, file templates and project templates (if customized).
• Set the Flex SDK and Flash Player locations to AS3Context and FlashViewer settings.

Upgrading

Upgrading happens just by installing the new version on top of the old version. Previous versions before the FlashDevelop 3.0.0 RC2 release needs to be uninstalled fully. If something seems broken you may need to completely remove old configuration files in your user local application data. See Configuration for locating these files.