[osflash] Flash 8 Build Tool

[Samuel Agesilas]

Hi Scott,

If your using Flash 8 have you looked into using MTASC... it is a LOT  
faster than the Flash IDE Compiler and can easily be integrated with  
ANT/

-sam

On Sep 6, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Scott Hyndman wrote:

> 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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