Comments on: Curious about Adobe Open Source? Get started with the Flex SDK on Mac OS X

By: Ans

Ans — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:33:24 +0000

It looks like that second link you posted has instructions for creating the build target. Have you run through this? If you get it working I would love to post your additions.

By: roB

roB — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:02:18 +0000

I will try it.. your script is the only one, which throw no error like this:
BUILD FAILED
Target \run\ does not exist in the project …

http://www.nbilyk.com/flex-localization-example

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Easily_compile_resource_bundles_using_Ant-12765.html

By: Ans

Ans — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:51:47 +0000

Hi Rob,

Yeah, I think it would be in build.xml as mentioned above, like:

…
default-background-color = “0x${background.color}”
default-frame-rate = “${framerate}”
locale = “en_US”
source-path = “locale/{locale}”
…

etc.

See how that’s formatted from what you posted?

By: roB

roB — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:38:35 +0000

Sorry.. I want “only” compile locale recources. Is it possible to put the “locale” information to your code?

By: Ans

Ans — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:18:24 +0000

Not entirely sure I understand the question? You want to add extra parameters to the compiler? You can do this by adding these in the build.xml file in the compile target. Find where there are already parameters for mxmlc. It looks like this: You can add additional arguments to this each on a new line under "default-frame-rate = ..."

By: roB

roB — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:38:17 +0000

Hi anselm,
Your tutorial is very good and so far the easiest solution to compile .. I think.

But I’m struggeling with this code out of a batch file. Is it possible to adapt the code to use \ant\?
If I adapt your build.properties I got this message:
Target \run\ does not exist in the project \null\.

Where to fill in for example the local things…

@echo off

-locale=en_US -source-path=locale/{locale} -include-resource-bundles=CairngormMessages,Errors,FinishScreen,ImportBrowser,ImportModuleLoader,IntroScreen, MediaTypes,PendingMessages,SearchAuthenticationScreen,SearchImportView,Tagging,TermsOfUseScreen, UploadImportView,WebcamView,collections,containers,controls,core,effects,logging,messaging,rpc,skins, states,styles,SharedResources,PendingMessages -output=en_US_ContributionWizard.swf

By: Ans

Ans — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:38:13 +0000

It’s a hidden directory, so from the Finder you have to go to Go -> Go to Folder… and type /usr/bin then it will show up.

By: dandylion_13

dandylion_13 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:55:57 +0000

I do have ant installed and running whereis and produces:

/usr/bin/ant

However, I can’t find this directory anywhere on my system. Is it only available through the terminal?

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:07:46 +0000

your tip about setting the executable flag for asDocHelper was exactly what I needed! thanks for posting this info.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:42:17 +0000

Thanks for the great write up! I thought I would add that for Linux users the process is very similar. However, for once, Linux users actually have the royal treatment! Adobe has been working on Flex Builder for Linux for some time now and there is a alpha version for download at Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/). I’ve been using this for over a year. Sometimes the alpha expires and you have to update to a new version, but the last time I updated it said it didn’t expire for another year! This seems to be a long-term project for Adobe.

This isn’t quite like Flex Builder for Mac and Windows. It’s strictly a plugin and there is no ‘design’ mode. But the code tools are excellent and provide you with true code hinting & completion for AS3 & MXML. This is the easiest way to get rolling with Flex development, and if you’re on Linux you can do it for free! (for now anyways).