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# openfl
  • g
    oops i forgor about documentation
  • g
    sorry
  • f
    the air runtime itself is a vm
  • f
    so no native code needs to be produced for iOS
  • r
    I was referring to the command line tools for building an AIR app for iOS on Windows. no VM required to run them, as far as I know. they should be native Windows executables. however, iOS AIR apps do indeed contain native code. the AS3 bytecode from the .swf file is AOT compiled to native code using LLVM. they did it this way because Apple doesn't let iOS apps use JIT, and simply interpreting bytecode is too slow. so there needed to be a way to generate native code to get decent performance. it's actually pretty cool
  • o
    I believe that AIR app is just a swf and resources in a zip. Used to be able to compile Zinc on a mac to run on windows as well. main problem back then was class path differences especially with winNT and win98 and mac. I presume AIR is not too different from zinc, so a c++ player that has swf player inside. In theory you could create a Cppia target for OpenFL. The cppia you compile would be cross platform and the player you have one for each target
  • o
    In mac you can kind of inject resouces into a an app as it is structured very similar to a directory
  • o
    I think it has a checksum that may require modifying, but used to inject tmbundle plugins into textmate1.app
  • o
    and you can go into apps and delete language bloated files.
  • o
    I am unsure on licencing I forget how that worked with flex, I think you needed to sign air apps on a mac
  • o
    The important aspect with mac and pc with respect to openfl is that on mac if using haxe c++ sys code directly with files you have to ../../ to be outside the app
  • o
    but not on pc
  • o
    because a mac app is like a folder structure
  • f
    can someone help me with this idk why its giving me this error message ;-;
  • f
    trying to compile to android target but i keep getting that error message
  • f
    i tried to find solutions online but none of them seem to be working
  • t
    How do I get a path from a file reference?
  • t
    I dont wnt the user to have to "Save as" every time
  • e
    openfl.filesystem.File
    ?
  • t
    Oh wow
  • t
    Thats like sys.io.File++
  • e
    oh are you using 
    sys.io.File
    ?
  • e
    because this is #769686284318146561 lmao
  • t
    nono
  • t
    I was using filereference
  • t
    but for like saving without a prompt i was using sys.io.File
  • t
    how do i get openfl to shut up about shaders
  • t
    theyre openfl shaders btw, its not something i can really fix
  • t
    Pretty sure theyre drowning all my trace() calls
  • t
    Ones that are run at the start*
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