First Step with Fever

Posted At : November 6, 2006 1:30 PM | Posted By : Romain Ecarnot
Related Categories: Fever lessons

Welcome to the Fever dev blog !

With some articles, I will try to explain you how to use the Fever and FvAsWing frameworks in for your ActionScript developement.
Let's go with the first step : How to initialize Fever ?

Fever need an intialization process to work well.
This process has 3 main goals :

Initializes default framework properties
Declares proper Context to use
Starts the Configuration engine

Thus, for a good use of all Fever classes and API, you need to initialize properly the framework at application starting.

All backstage processes are executed automatically by the framework, we just need to call the Fever.run() method to start a correct Fever application.
This is a correct starting point :

class Main
{

/**
* MTASC Access point.
*/
public static function main() : Void
{
Fever.run( new MyDemo() );
}

}

As you can see it's really simple.
Fever.run() method wait for 3 arguments ( only the first must be set ) :

Application main class instance
Context to use in application ( default is BrowserContext )
Application use the Configuration engine ( default is false )

So a complete call could be :

class Main
{

/**
* MTASC Access point.
*/
public static function main() : Void
{
FeverDebug.isOn = true;
Fever.run( new MyDemo(), HaxeContext.getInstance(), true );
}

}

Which means

My real main application instance is a MyDemo class instance
My application will be embeded in a Screenweaver HX container, so I use the Haxe context
A configuration file exist, Configuration engine must load it

Ok let's take a look now at a complete MTASC call and a basic application class.

Main.as

import fever.app.context.haxe.HaxeContext;
import fever.demo.MyDemo;
import fever.Fever;
import fever.log.FeverDebug;

class Main
{
public static function main() : Void
{
// Enables debugging
FeverDebug.isOn = true;

// Starts initialization
Fever.run( new MyDemo(), HaxeContext.getInstance(), true );
}
}

MyDemo.as

import fever.FeverApplication;
import fever.log.FeverDebug;

class fever.demo.MyDemo implements FeverApplication
{
/**
* Constructor.
*/
public function MyDemo()
{

}

/**
* Calls when Fever is ready and configuration is loaded.
*/
public function run() : Void
{
FeverDebug.INFO( "application ready !" );
}

}

Our application is ready and configuration loaded and parsed when the FeverApplication.run() method is called.
You can start your application code here.

That's it ! your application is ready, Fever is correctly initialized, we can play now...

Cheers,
Romain Ecarnot.

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