I am using FlashBuilder for a project (Actionscript Project, using AS3) that I've been working on for a few weeks now. I took a break for the holidays (naturally), and when I came back, the compiler seemed to stop working. Everytime I ran the default Actionscript application, the swf ran without my new changes.
According to the file system, the swf had been modified (though my SVN software, Cornerstone, detects no difference in the file). But, if I add in a trace statement in the constructor of the default application, it is not displayed in the console while running in debug mode (even though all other statements that were written and saved before today run fine).
I have tried Project->Clean several times. I also have changes the compiler arguments to generate a size report, however, I have another swf that is generated on build (a preloader) and the size report only includes that (even though it does modify the main swf. This even happens after a clean and it MUST generate a new main swf and preloader swf).
I have also restarted FlashBuilder, and the computer, and moved the project to a different computer, all with the same result (build not including updated code)
Any other ideas to get rid of this strange behavior?
Thanks in advance,
-Esa
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I am working on a project which includes use of existing .swf files developed long time back by unknown resources.
I need to update one variable in the ActionScript. The actionscript is inside the binarydata folder and if i do any changes then the template gets corrupted or im not sure what but it does not display at all.
I have no experience working in flash hence requesting some guidance.
This issue got fixed on a different machine and by using the JPEXS Decompiler.
At first i was using [Embed] to load in textures for a game.
I then went through the process of moving all the assets into the library.
The program is working fine, however the "Exporting SWF" takes absolutely ages now. It seems like it's doing an awful lot to process these library assets or something.
Is there any way I could reduce this time?
I wish to avoid going back to Embed if I can.
This might change your workflow too drastically, but my method to avoid this issue is to compile using a code editor (my preference is FlashDevelop, but FDT or Flash Builder work too), and to include any assets authored in the Flash Professional IDE by pre-exporting them to an SWC.
It means there are two steps to perform a complete compilation: the first to export the assets from Flash Pro to SWC (which is still slow), and the second to actually compile the SWF using the SWC and your code (which is much quicker). If you edit your assets as often as your code, this won't save you time at all, but in my experience I'll make many more tweaks to the code once the assets are in place, and overall it saves me time.
To start doing this, you can export an SWC from Flash Pro by going to File > Publish Settings, then checking the 'SWC' option (and unchecking 'SWF'). You can set the SWC path to something convenient for your code editor. Then in FlashDevelop, for example, you would include the SWC in your project (right click and 'Add to Library'), which allows you to access any classes that were set to 'Export for ActionScript' in the Flash Library.
Once it's all set up, I use SHIFT-ALT-F12 to publish from Flash, then tab over to FlashDevelop where the changes will be picked up, ready to compile directly from there.
today I opened my flash project in CS6 and after it opened in the output I receive this message: "Could not load scene into memory. Your document may be damaged." The only problem I saw was the flash component (textInput, and button) that I use for my project. They was transformed smaller and I can select them. :-o And the problem is that try to open the previous version of the project and I found the same error. I think the only problem is FLASH COMPONENT. How can I make everything like it was (flash component). Is something about library ?I saw in library the TextInput are appear like symbol of component (3cubes).
Thank you for help!
Possible causes / solutions:
Your .fla was originally authored on a computer with a different operating system. Try opening it on the computer it was created.
Your .fla might have been made with a different version of Flash. Make sure you are opening it in the same version of Flash.
Your .fla might have been corrupted. If you look in the folder and it says the file size is something like 7kb, then your .fla file is seriously corrupted. Hopefully you have backups if this is the case.
Unfortunately it doesn't work in some fast way so I had to change all my flash components in the library. After I changed, the new components was looked also strange. But I didn't receive that error again and I can go ahead with my project now. Thank you anyway...
I think my flash has a curse.
I use Flash Professional CS5.5 with Gaia FrameWork in my project. movieclips in the project have extended classes and the problem is that when I give new functionality to my classes they doesn't work in an build project. for example function s cann't be found, trace doesn't work and so on. All the old functionality works. When I change class name then it works fine. but then it happens again.
I made new project and coped all the content, but still it happens. I event rainstalled flash but nothing works.
What can I do?
Are you working from a network drive? Sometimes if your system time and the network time are out of sync Flash thinks your class files haven't changed and does not bother to recompile the latest changes.
When testing your project compile like this: Go to Control > Delete ASO files and test movie.
This option deletes the compiled cache and forces it to be rebuilt ...
I've got an AS3 project where I'm trying to compile in several images, a soundtrack, and a video via [Embed] metadata. It's a product requirement that these be embedded, so network transfer is not an option.
I'm getting some really strange behavior - a sort of intermittent corruption of the compiled-in data. Sometimes after the project compiles, I run the swf and it closes immediately and writes "Warning: Failed to parse corrupt data" to the flash log. If I delete the binary and clean the project, sometimes it'll run fine after building it again. Sometimes it doesn't.
This is probably the strangest part about this problem, but sometimes when I see that error, I can physically move the video [Embed] lines to the end of the file, then clean the project, and it will build and run no problem. Sometimes I move them back to the beginning of the file and it builds and runs fine.
It kinda seems like it might be a bug in the compiler. Has anyone else experienced something similar? I'm targeting Flash 10.1 and using sprout (http://projectsprouts.org) to build my project. This is the mxmlc line that's being used to compile (mxmlc Version 4.1.0 build 16076):
mxmlc -as3 -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true -debug -default-background-color=#ffffff -default-size 712 400 -output=bin/ProjectName.swf -source-path+=.preprocessed/src -source-path+=.preprocessed/assets .preprocessed/src/ProjectName.as
I've tried both removing the -debug compiler option and adding the -optimize option, but no luck.
Everything is being ran through the GNU C preprocessor for some other tasks, so maybe I'll try removing the preprocessor stuff and hardcoding those variables...I'll try that and post the results tomorrow.
Any insight at all would be much appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT:
This project is going to be compiled dynamically with different assets being embedded into the same codebase, so switching to something like Flash Builder for compilation really isn't an option...it must be done via command-line mxmlc.
UPDATE:
Turns out the corrupted data message was due to images created with Photoshop's "Save for web" feature. If I save them outright as PNG images I don't get the message. However, the intermittent nature of the movie compiling properly still seems to be an issue. Now sometimes when the project is compiled it won't throw any compiler errors, but I get a blank flash player window. Right clicking in flash player shows a context menu with a message that says "Movie not loaded..." This doesn't appear to have anything to do with things being ran through CPP first.
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This is apparently a bug in mxmlc under Mac OS X. After posting this, I observed some other really strange behavior, so I switched the whole codebase to Windows 7. Everything works as expected there (still using Project Sprouts as a build tool).
Flash builder is fine with it.
Can you separate your issue for video or music only, or issue is true for both includes?