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@@ -6,30 +6,51 @@ Halcyon is its rendering engine. It's rules-based (like, say, Mapnik) and does d
 
 Both are written in ActionScript 3. Potlatch 2.0 additionally uses the Flex framework.
 
+Many icons used in halcyon/potlatch2 are based on the awesome CC0-licensed SJJB icons project. http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/
+
 === What you'll need ===
 
-* Flex SDK - http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/ (free, OS X/Windows/Linux)
+* Flex SDK 3.4 or 3.5 - http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/ (free, OS X/Windows/Linux)
 * AS3 docs - http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/
 * Flash debug player - http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
 * Basically you might as well just sell your soul to Adobe
+* Ant
+
+***Do not use FlexSDK <= 3.3 or > 4***. There are compatibility errors with version 4, and 3.3
+and earlier have this bug: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16705 which is a major issue for the
+tag editors.
 
 You'll only need OSM Rails port installed on your local machine if you are doing hard-core 
 server-communication coding, but if generally you can use the dev server at api06.dev.openstreetmap.org
 for development and testing.
 
+
 === How to compile and run ===
 
 Compiling Potlatch 2:
 
-The following command will compile potlatch2 in optimized configuration
+Before you start, copy the properties template file, and edit the FLEX_HOME variable
+  cp build.properties.template build.properties
+
+The following command will compile potlatch2 in debug configuration
 The result is put at resources/potlatch2.swf
 
-* mxmlc potlatch2.mxml
+* ant
+
+The following command will compile potlatch2 in release configuration
 
+* ant release
 
 Compiling Halcyon as standalone viewer:
 
-* mxmlc halcyon_viewer.as
+* ant halcyon
+
+You can create class documentation (in resources/docs) using asdoc
+
+* ant docs
+
+If you're using Mac OS X, you may need to tell ant to use more memory, by
+typing export ANT_OPTS=-Xmx500M beforehand (you can put this in your .profile).
 
 
 Compiling during development:
@@ -55,7 +76,12 @@ of a much larger swf file.. but we're developing so that doesn't matter!).
 
 * compile 1
   - type it again to compile again. You'll really wish that up-arrow,enter 
-    worked, but Adobe is going laughing at you RIGHT NOW.
+    worked, but Adobe is laughing at you RIGHT NOW.
+
+* rlwrap
+  - if you have it on your system (e.g. linux), rlwrap is a godsend. Launch
+    fcsh with 'rlwrap path/to/fcsh' and up arrows will work, even persistantly
+    across one fcsh session to the next.
 
 Running:
 
@@ -63,13 +89,21 @@ Running:
   server) the binary must have been served from "teh internets". Run resources/server.rb to launch a local 
   server, then go to http://localhost:3333/potlatch2.html to get started (or if you're already running e.g. 
   Apache locally, feel free to use that instead.
+  
+* If you are doing offline development, you will need a rails_port install. You 
+  will need to add an OAuth application by going to 
+  http://rails-port.local/user/<username>/oauth_clients/new
+  Enter the following details (assuming the above point):
+  * Name (Required): Potlatch2 (local)
+  * Main Application URL (Required): http://localhost:3333/resources/potlatch2.html
+  And then update resources/potlatch2.html replacing the domains.
 
 === Some other stuff you might need to know ===
 
 * Flex compiler runs at about the speed of a tortoise soaked in molasses which happens also to be dead.
 * Running the debug player helps when coding, since it'll pop up the runtime errors. You don't see them
   with the normal player.
-
+  
 Richard Fairhurst
 richard@systemeD.net