How do I emebed css at compile-time using AS3 (just like the <fx:style> tag)?

Question

I'm working in a Flash Builder 4 Actionscript project and trying to figure out how to embed a css file into the project at "compile-time". Just as we did when we use MXML's <fx:Style> tag.

Any idea?

Answer 1

Quote from the Flex 3 help documentation:

You can specify a CSS file as an argument to the source-pathcompiler argument. This lets you toggle among style sheets with that compiler argument.

Answer 2

// Embed your stylesheet with the octet-stream mime-type 

[Embed(source="assets/stylesheet.css", mimeType="application/octet-stream")] 
private var stylesCSS:Class;   

public function createStyleSheetObject():StyleSheet 
{
    // create a new StyleSheet instance
    var styleSheet:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
    styleSheet.parseCSS(new stylesCSS().toString());
    return styleSheet; 
}