Flex Builder not building changes

Question

I'm having a very strange bug in Flex Builder where none of the changes I make are appearing when I debug/run my program. It only happens with a particular AS3 project, on others, it works fine.

For example, I have a line,var x:int = this.prevX + this.x;, whose value is 400 if I don't make any changes. I change the line to var x:int = 0; and set a breakpoint on the line. When I debug the program, it breakpoints just where it should, but the value is set to 400, even when the line is x = 0! What gives!

I've tried cleaning the project and deleting the project and re-importing it. No matter what I do, it won't show any changes I make, even if I just toggle a boolean. It still won't let me compile with errors, but once its done compiling, it completely ignore whatever changes I made. It's like it has the bytecode for the swf cached somewhere and its just ignoring doing the actual build step.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Check if you have a copy of the swf in the html-template folder. The newly compiled swf will be overwritten by that old one after each build. Happened to me once.

Answer 2

Lots of people sure love digging into Microsoft. I was at a conference once where a guy kind of commented to me sideways, "I bet you would use anything the Borg gave you. I bet you love Visual Studio too."

Well, actually, yes. But, I also love Eclipse. This is why, when a project came up I figured it would be nice to work in Flex Builder 3. The number of weird things that have happened have made this journey painful.

I just had this happen to me and lost hours of development time. The "workspace" concept is clunky and doesn't travel well between computers (like on a thumbdrive), which can easily do with Visual Studio and it's collection of user and settings files.

UGH!

Thanks for putting up the response though, Markus!

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