Getting Started

In order to get started with Heaps you'll need to do the following:

• install Haxe 3.2+, available on http://haxe.org
• install Heaps by running haxelib git heaps https://github.com/ncannasse/heaps.git for the bleeding edge version
• setup your IDE in order to build Haxe content, as documented here

You should then be ready to run your first example:

    class Main extends hxd.App {
        var bmp : h2d.Bitmap;
        
        override function init() {
            var tile = h2d.Tile.fromColor(0xFF0000, 100, 100);
            bmp = new h2d.Bitmap(tile, s2d);
            bmp.x = s2d.width * 0.5;
            bmp.y = s2d.height * 0.5;
        }
        
        override function update(dt:Float) {
            bmp.rotation += 0.1;
        }
        
        static function main() {
            new Main();
        }
    }

To ensure the program compiles include the Heaps library by adding -lib heaps to your compilation parameters.

• If you compile for Javascript,
  • you will also have to create an index.html that includes your .js haxe output.
  • Also put a <canvas id="webgl"></canvas> in body of the HTML-file.
  • If not in debug mode (-debug compiler flag) add -dce no flag to prevent execution failure.
• If you compile for Flash, make sure to specify the Flash version to be at least 11.8 (with -swf-version 11.8) which is required for Heaps.

You should now be able to compile and display the example. It should show you a rotating red square.

Several examples for both 2D and 3D are available in the heaps samples directory.