SpringRollStudio

SpringRollStudio is an native application (build with nw-init and designed to provide graphic user interfaces for building and managing SpringRoll projects.

Features

• Manage a captions library
• Remote debugging over a network
• Run Grunt tasks for SpringRoll projects
• Scaffold a new project with support for custom templates

Dependencies

In order to build SpringRollStudio, there are some external global dependencies that are required.

grunt

Grunt is required to build. See the getting started guide.

npm install -g grunt-cli

makensis

makensis is required to create the Windows setup executable. Can be installed with brew:

brew install makensis

appdmg

node-appdmg is required to create the OS X DMG installer image.

npm install -g appdmg

wine

On OSX if building for Windows, Wine needs to be installed to create the application icon. Can be installed with brew

brew install wine

Building

The Grunt project is an extension of the grunt-game-builder and all those grunt tasks can be used on your app. In addition, there are several Grunt tasks that are specific and useful to building SpringRollStudio:

Task	Description
app	Builds a release version of the node-webkit app
app-debug	Builds a debug version of the node-webkit app
package	Create the OSX and Windows installers
open	Open the OSX application

Examples

Build SpringRollStudio in debug mode and run:

grunt app-debug open

Build SpringRollStudio and package to installers:

grunt app package