Importing help from the Flash IDE

  1. Click the 'Convert Flash Help' button in the help menu
  1. In the dialog that appears find the folder where your flash help lives (See IDE Help File Locations below)
  1. Click OK to generate a new plugin in your eclipse plugins folder called 'org.asdt.flashhelp'
  1. Restart eclipse

IDE Help File Locations

On a typical Windows XP install the help files are located here C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\HelpPanel\Help

Make sure you choose that ‘Help’ directory within the ‘HelpPanel’ directory, it should have subdirectories for the flash help content.

OSX Problem

Currently on OSX the permissions could be wrong for the new TOC files and need to be changed, thanks to John Hauf who noted :

‘I found the solution why the files won’t show up in the TOC. The file permissions in the flashhelp folder weren’t correct. I changed them to 666 and now the help contents show up’

Notes

We don’t copy the actual HTML files into the plugin, the plugin is just a set of contents that refers to the original files, so if you remove the Flash IDE you will lose your help content. Perhaps in the future we’ll add an option to copy the content over.