[osflash] Flash 8 Build Tool

[Scott Hyndman]

Hi everyone,

I recently took a job working on a very large project that uses the Flash 8
IDE for building. The project is structured hierarchically, with each FLA
associated with one view class.

Very soon after starting, I was very frustrated by build times (40
minutes+), so I convinced the boss to let me write a build tool that
determines dependencies, then factors out common code. Build time is vastly
improved, as views that are deeper in the hierarchy typically compile
against intrinsics rather than full classes (as determined by the tool). SWF
sizes are also much smaller, without having to mess around with exclude.xml.
I wrote in SWF invalidation, so that individual FLAs are only recompiled if
the modified time stamp on the FLA, or any of the FLA's dependent
ActionScript files, is greater than the SWF's (just like make).

The tool can be run via the command-line or an Apache Ant task.

Is anyone out there writing applications structured this way? Would they
have interest in the tool (written in Java)?

Scott
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