Error #1009 and counting

Back to Flash.

This year I've mostly been hard at work baking cakes one after another. Man I love it!

But yesterday I had to stop and think. You see, I needed a video player. And somehow from all the hmmm, probably 10-15 player I've built, big and small, MVC or timeline scripted, there was not one that I could put my hands on and say to myself "This will do!". That's what u get when u do custom jobs. Maybe I should get into building and selling a customizable flash video player. Wait, what the hell am I thinking!?

So well, I was in need of a good video player. AS3 based. There's no way I'd go and code myself another AS2 player. It's 2009 for God's sake!

Well the truth is I did make a fully customisable AS3 video player that suports all sorts of parameters passed from HTML. but that one used a standard FlvPlayback skin. And it was all good but for the project I'm working on a standard skin was a no-no. I used it for the video moderation in the admin just fine. But does Youtube have a standard skinned flash video player on the front? Does Google? NO!

Hmm, "I need to code meself an AS3 video player" said I to me. Flash IDE is great for drawing but sucks at AS code. Nothing new there. I need an AS3 tool that works with my everyday Eclipse. There was none last time I checked. That's a good while ago though. Easy Eclipse still doesn't have a LAMP version using the latest Eclipse. May be Easy but it's old. I'm still young but time flyes and I can't wait. I'll have to do it the hard way. Got Eclipse Galileo for PHP developers. That's us I thought. I smiled.

Galileo is polished. Cocoa version is snappy. I pointed it to my old workbench and all was there. I slapped Aptana and Subclipse on it and there was nothing more to add. Well except for the AS3 support. Ok I said, ASDT will have to do. I'll pair it with the funky BigSource Zarkov and tame that Flex 3 SDK into submission. Hmmm, "You can find the development site at http://axdt.org". Silly typo... Wait! "enable you to write ActionScript3 code in an integrated environment". Thats me! Had to install IMP for Eclipse too. "meta-tooling for Eclipse". Hmm that sounds metalicious.

Well syntax highlighting didn't work from the start. It did after I installed Colorer take5. But using the IMP editor. Weird. Well...

AXDT rocks! Keeps opening the compiled swf even if I said not to but hey, why not?

Export swc from Flash to the axdt project's lib folder, run from Eclipse, deploy to web server with ANT, debug with Demonsterdebugger.

"TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference."

Hmm, good thing I didn't get the other 1008 errors, right?

ADDED_TO_STAGE to follow...