• Homepage : http://code.google.com/p/as2-class-exporter/
• License : MIT
• Author : Juan Pablo Califano (califa010)

AS Class Exporter is a .NET utility that extracts the names of the classes compiled in a set of swf’s, searches a defined classpath to find the referenced classes and copies the .as files found in said classpath to an output folder chosen by the user.

Actually, a problem that I’ve frequently run into in many Flash projects. Often, I place the classes and packages for a project inside a “fla” or “src” a folder, so the code is accessible to the fla files, which live in that same folder, without any extra classpath configuration. I also use “common” code from a central repository, as well (the kind of code that is generic enough that can be shared among many projects).

The problem is, when you have to give the sources of the project to someone, in order for them to be able to compile the fla’s, you’d either have to give them your whole central repository (most of which is not relevant or needed to the project at hand), or manually track down which classes are being referenced in your project’s code. Then you’d have to create folders that follow the original package/folder layout and manually copy and paste your .as files. A couple of times I had to do that and it was rather painful, time consuming and error prone. So, this project was developed based on my own needs as a way to automatize all that tedious work, and is made available here in the hope that it might help other developers that have come across the same problem.

Check the project's home page on Google code for more info, source code and donwloads.