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rainbowcreatures / FlashyWrappers

AIR / Flash video recording SDK
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animate cc and air package #25

Closed alpoman closed 7 years ago

alpoman commented 7 years ago

Hello, when i try to add the desktop ane to my air project in animate cc, the "output as air package" get grayed out and wont let me create an air file. anyone know about this, thanks in advance!!

andy

rainbowcreatures commented 7 years ago

Hey Andy, you'll need to use native package installer - air packages don't work with ANE's. See for example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15053814/signed-air-package-vs-signed-native-installer

alpoman commented 7 years ago

so are you saying that i cant make an air file file an ane? i know i can make a windows exe, but i need an air file that will work on mac as well, thanks!

rainbowcreatures commented 7 years ago

Well, on Mac you need to export as .dmg (native installer) which installs it as native app on the users Mac. As far as I know thats the only way you can deploy AIR apps together with ANE's on Mac.

alpoman commented 7 years ago

so can air use .swc but not ane? is there a swc of flashywrappers that will work for air package? thanks!

rainbowcreatures commented 7 years ago

Yeah, if you don't package it as native installer you can use swc's, but not native code.

The problem with swc is, its not native code...its interpreted by the virtual machine. In theory the Flash version of FlashyWrappers (which is swc) might work on Mac with some adjustments, but it would be several times slower than the ANE, which works with native Apple libraries (and you would lose the ability to produce mp4, for that I'm calling Apple API's again, so that also makes it legal, vs. embedding your own encoder into swc and redistributing it with the app).

alpoman commented 7 years ago

thank you for this detailed explanation-- it makes sense to me. so if i want a version of my app to work on mac, i need to run the mac version of animate cc so i can get the create .dmg option, like the create .exe version i have for windows. thank you again!
andy

On Apr 20, 2017, at 9:33 AM, rainbowcreatures notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah, if you don't package it as native installer you can use swc's, but not native code.

The problem with swc is, its not native code...its interpreted by the virtual machine. In theory the Flash version of FlashyWrappers (which is swc) might work on Mac with some adjustments, but it would be several times slower than the ANE, which works with native Apple libraries (and you would lose the ability to produce mp4, for that I'm calling Apple API's again, so that also makes it legal, vs. embedding your own encoder into swc and redistributing it with the app).

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rainbowcreatures commented 7 years ago

Yep, exactly!