Stage3D could not be found in IntelliJ and Starling

Question

I have installed Air SDK 3.8 and Flex 4.10. I merged Air SDK into Flex directory. I downloaded Starling 1.3.0.

I added Flex SDK and Starling swc into the classpath of IntelliJ.

I can run a simple AS3 HelloWorld application from inside IntelliJ. But when I run a simple HelloWorld application for Starling, IntelliJ gives the following error after completing compilation:

VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.display::Stage3D could not be found

Answer 1

Adding the following line to index.template.html solves the problem:

params.wmode = "direct";

Note that this line should be added before the following line:

swfobject.embedSWF(...