Simeon Says

I have posted several times in the past, and given several examples of using Ant to compile Flex 2 applications use the Flex 2 SDK command line compiler.

Since I wrote my first version of that, I have also used Flex Builder more (when i am on my pc) and I found that I like one of the features it provides. When you create a new flex project in FB2, there are some default files and folders that get added. One is the base application file, another is the html-template folder, and then a bin folder. During the compilation process you base application is compiled and the result is a swf located in the bin directory. Then the first time you compile an application, it copies the files from the html-template directory into the bin directory as well. These files are the html and js that act as the loader for your swf.

I thought this was a neat feature so I added it to my Ant script. If you want to get a copy of the html-template files you there is a copy of them in the cairngorm2 zip file ( I was gonna post them, but I will let Adobe cover the bandwidth ).

I am not going to claim to be an Ant expert, so their may be better ways of doing things. But the way I have this setup, I can copy the first target change the path and filename and I can compile multiple applications with same script. Also the compileMXML was contributed by my friend Rob Rohan and I saw an example of using the compileForm method in the adobe forums. I continue to use Robs version though because it seems to be faster. Even with incremental compliation on the compileFork always takes about 30 seconds to compile in my powerbook, while robs method usually takes 12-16.

Anyway, with any luck this can help others out there. Good Luck.