I am just getting started with flex and am using the SDK (not Flex Builder). I was wondering what's the best way to compile a mxml file from an ant build script.
Compiling mxml files with ant and flex sdk
antapache-flexmxml
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I did a simple bootstrap similar to Borek (see below). I would love to get rid of the mxml file, but if I don't have it, I don't get any of the standard themes that come with Flex (haloclassic.swc, etc). Does anybody know how to do what Theo suggests and still have the standard themes applied?
Here's my simplified bootstrapping method:
main.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<custom:ApplicationClass xmlns:custom="components.*"/>
ApplicationClass.as
package components {
import mx.core.Application;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.controls.Button;
public class ApplicationClass extends Application {
public function ApplicationClass () {
addEventListener (FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, handleComplete);
}
private function handleComplete( event : FlexEvent ) : void {
var button : Button = new Button();
button.label = "My favorite button";
button.styleName="halo"
button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleClick);
addChild( button );
}
private function handleClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
Alert.show("You clicked on the button!", "Clickity");
}
}
}
Here are the necessary updates to use it with Flex 4:
main.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<local:MyApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:local="components.*" />
MyApplication.as
package components {
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
import spark.components.Application;
import spark.components.Button;
public class MyApplication extends Application {
public function MyApplication() {
addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, creationHandler);
}
private function creationHandler(e:FlexEvent):void {
var button : Button = new Button();
button.label = "My favorite button";
button.styleName="halo"
button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleClick);
addElement( button );
}
private function handleClick(e:MouseEvent):void {
Alert.show("You clicked it!", "Clickity!");
}
}
}
Here is a link to the mxmlc command line tool docs from Adobe and a direct link to the command line options reference. I also find mxmlc -help list
to be a good place to start.
As another poster recommended, you really want to use library-path
to add the path to the directory that contains the swc file. Use the += operator to make sure you don't overwrite the previous values
e.g.)
c:\flex_sdk_3\bin\mxmlc.exe -library-path+=lib coverflow.mxml
Best Answer
The Flex SDK ships with a set of ant tasks. More info at:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=anttasks_1.html
Here is an example of compiling Flex SWCs with ant:
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2006/05/19/example-using-ant-with-compc-to-compile-swcs/
mike chambers