I have some flex/AS3 code (from a 3rd party) which I must alter to fit my needs. I am constrained to use FlashDevelop due to my budget - which means the 3rd party are unwilling to offer much support (they used FlashBuilder)
The solution is made of approximately 10 "sub" projects, most of which use the spark.swc and spark_rb.swc in their library
These 10 projects are compiled into .swc using the Export SWC plugin. Each "sub" project compiles succesfully.
I then in use those .swc files in a main project.
I have tried every combination of adding the spark.swc and the spark_rb.swc to the "sub" projects library ("include referenced classes", "include completely", "not included") and similarly every combination of adding the "sub" .swcs to the main - and still I get compile errors, when building the main project similar to:
Error: Symbol 'en_US$components_properties' is multiply defined in
C:\flex_sdk_4.1.0.16076A\frameworks\locale\en_US\spark_rb.swc$locale/en_US/components.properties
and C:\Path\To\Folder\SubProject1.swc(en_US$components_properties)
I have not included either spark.swc or spark_rb.swc in the library of the main project.
How should I be using .swc files that share .swc code? Or - am I asking the wrong question, and should be doing something different?
That setup is okay, what you need to do is avoid compiling into your library the classes that are already included in other libraries while exporting them.
I don't know how to do this in Export SWC thing for FlashDevelop, but in Ant it is pretty easy (or even command line if you prefer):
Generate a link-report (-link-report=report.xml) while compiling
your app: It will contain info on what is compiled in you main SFW.
Compile all sub projects with -load-externs=report.xml: this way
the classes already included in the main SFW will not be compiled in
sub export file.
You can read more about it here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7d1f.html#WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf64277-7ffa
Hope that helps.
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I have a project containing a big package "global" of classes which is designed for Web, I need to share these classes with a new mobile project, but when i add them with :
Properties -> Flex Build Path -> Source path -> Add Folder
they start appearing with index [source path] before the package name, and since them Flash Builder start trowing error messages :
"A file found in a source-path must have the same package structure '', as the definition's package, 'global'."
How can i fix this issue ?
As we've discussed in the comments, I think it would be a better approach to compile your "global" classes into a library (.swc).
You were concerned about loading unnecessary classes: when you link to a library as 'merged', only the classes you use are actually compiled into the main application (and any classes they depend on), so there's no need to worry about that.
As a last argument I also think this is a more flexible approach. A compiled library is easier to reuse and version, so the code can more easily be distributed to other developers on your team.
Rename one of the packages with right click->refactor. Than is should work.
If not you can also try to have your two codes available at the same project, and then you can select which to run in Flash Builder, by right-clicking to that .as or .mxml file, and selecting set as ... (or something like that)
I guess if you will include 'src' fonder instead of 'src/global' that problem will disappear.
I develop an ActionScript 3 project using FlashDevelop 4.
I have a main SWF holding all the code.
I want to export some of the main SWF code into modules.
I created a module to hold the separated logic (by extending ModuleBase).
I don't want the module SWF to reference anything that is available in the main SWF so i ran the main SWF compilation with -link-report and got a report.xml file holding all the main SWF references.
I tried to compile the module (mxmlc) while excluding any class or library in the main SWF using the load-externs=report.xml option.
The compilation gave me an error saying that some libraries references are missing, but the error message referenced classes that are suppose to be included only in the main SWF.
I checked the report.xml file and it does show that these classes are referenced.
I tried to run the compilation in 3 different ways and always got the same result:
Using the build current file in FlashDevelope and giving the file a header of the command that should be ran.
Using command line (windows).
Using Ant build script.
Does anyone have any idea why this could happen?
I would be happy to supply more information about my problem if it helps anyone guide me to a solution.
Thanks for the help!
It turns out that it did not ignore the load-externs.
The load-externs excluded some of the libraries and therefor these libraries were not found during compile time.
I solved the problem by adding the libraries path to the compilation.
This was done by addind the flag: -l+=lib\
I am trying to just compile and run the demos from this article:
Flash talks to max msp via osc
I am using Flash Develop and Flex SDK with an up to date version of air.
When I run the demo: "as3_MaxFlashHarmony" I get an error I don't know how to fix. The source for the entire project is here:
the project
But specifically the error I am getting says:
col: 30 Error: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: OSCMessage.
here is the as3 file that it is specifically referencing:
//IHarmonyApp.as
package
{
import org.tuio.osc.OSCMessage;
public interface IHarmonyApp
{
function updateOSCData(msg:OSCMessage):void;
}
}
It uses the libraries Tuio, MinimalComps, and MonsterDebugger. The thing I don't get is that how can it not find OSCMessage if OSCMessage is properly imported? the IDE is making fine references to it and I can open it's declaration. OSCMessage is a public class. I don't get it.
To give some extra info for potential answers, the IDE flashdevelop can find the library org.tuio.osc.OSCMessage just fine, it gives the error regardless of if org.tuio... is a source path or not, and the overall path does not contain any special characters. I don't know if that might matter, but I feel like this is me making a stupid mistake somewhere. I can provide my project zipped if need be.
Thanks!
Edit 9:48, 8/25/12
I do have the file path org/tuio/osc/OSCMessage.as in my project, and the file OSCMessage exists. FlashDevelop can find it just fine and I can navigate to declaration at that location. This is why I got stumped.
Thanks again
In your AS3 folder apart of your de folder you would need to have org folder with relevant folders and classes.
For example to import org.tuio.osc.OSCMessage you would need a file:
../YourPackageRoot/org/tuio/osc/OSCMessage.as
The other way is including a SWC file (all folders and classes zipped into one swc file).
You can include the swc file in FlashDevelop by right clicking the swc file and selecting Add To Library
I am using Flash CS5 and I have created a large, rarely changing framework that I don't want to be recompiled every time I use it in my projects.
I must be doing something wrong because the "auto-complete" functionality doesn't show the names of the parameters of the functions.
For example, I have a function:
public class Hey {
public function show(name:String, num:Number, data:Array):void {...}
}
I export the SWC file and when I import it into another project, then the auto-complete for this function shows :
show(arg0:String, arg1:Number, arg2:Array):void
So, instead of "name", "num" and "data" I get "arg0", "arg1" and "arg2".
I have downloaded other SWC files and the auto-complete gets the names correctly.
Am I doing something wrong at export-time?
I have never been able to get an SWC generated with the Flash Pro IDE to supply the correct parameter names in code hints. For some reason, the Flash IDE either does not use the same compiler or does not use the same compiler options as the Flex SDK toolkit.
You can generate code-hinting-compatable SWCs with Flash Builder by creating a Flex Library project. The "Flex" part of "Flex Library" is a little misleading. You can build AS3-only SWC files with this project type.
Or if you don't feel like shelling out the money for Flash Builder, you can always download the free Flex SDK and use the compc compiler to generate the SWC for you. It's the same tool set that Flash Builder uses to generate SWCs, so you will get the same code-hinting ability. The syntax is pretty straight-forward if you're used to command line tools:
compc -source-path . -include-classes MyCustomClass -output=MyLibrary.swc
Hopefully someone can post a better answer and prove me wrong, but I've never seen a Flash-generated SWC include the parameters in code-hinting.
I suppose you compile with debug=false but should be debug=true to keep all necessary data in swc including arguments names.
Optimizing libraries means to remove debugging and other code from the library prior to deployment. For normal libraries that you are not using as RSLs, you do not need to optimize. This is because you will likely want to debug against the library during development, so you will need the debug code inside the library. And, when you compile the release version of your application, the compiler will exclude debug information as it links the classes from the library.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7ad5.html
For me the easiest way was to import the code to a Flash Develop project, and install a plugin to export swc's: http://sourceforge.net/projects/exportswc/
After installing Flash Develop go to Tools ยป Install Software and install the AIR SDK + ASC 2.0 (Action Script Compiler 2.0).
Furter information here: http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=2987
I'm using FlashDevelop4.0.0 RC1 to create AS3 library project, in which I want to import Away3D library. I follow this tutorial to set up my FD.
http://www.mclelun.com/blog/2011/08/flashdevelop-stage3d-away3d/
However, FD generate error message when I use ExportSWC4.2 plugin to compile the project, I got error message said that
at away3d\materials\methods\TerrainDiffuseMethod_NormalizeKernel.as(10): The definition of base class ByteArrayAsset was not found
Can anyone help me with that? Thanks!
p.s.
I also have issue like the following link
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3401191&group_id=252536&atid=1127375
not sure if it's related to my problem.
Are you downloading the zip package from http://away3d.com/download/ or accessing via SVN / GIT?
http://away3d.com/images/uploads/releases/away3d_4_0_110915.zip
Not sure about their GIT, but I found the SVN repo dated.
I did not see ByteArrayAsset anywhere in the inheritance chain within my version:
away3d.materials.methods.TerrainDiffuseMethod
away3d.materials.methods.BasicDiffuseMethod
away3d.materials.methods.LightingMethodBase
away3d.materials.methods.ShadingMethodBase
mx.core.ByteArrayAsset is an Adobe class.
There's a NormalizeSplats Pixel Bender linkage, but I did not see any Normalize Kernel.
I'd recommend grabbing the Broomstick ZIP package - I had no issues building the SWC with Flash Builder targeting Flash Player 11.