How to include resource bundles in ActionScript Modules using Flex 4.1?

Question

In the simplest of Flex Projects, create an MXML Flex Module and then load it using the ModuleManager. No problem. Create an ActionScript class that extends Module and then configure your project to compile that into a Module. Load this new module instead. The project compiles, but crashes when running with the following error:

"Error: Could not find compiled resource bundle 'containers' for locale 'en_US'."

I believe the compiler is failing to compile the required class definitions into ActionScript only module, while it succeeds for the MXML module. I can see that my skeleton MXML module is slightly larger than my ActionScript module (66KB vs. 45KB).

How can I resolve this problem (if that is indeed the issue)?

Answer 1

A good approach in these sort of situations is to use -keep-generated-actionscript for two projects, one with the mxml approach, and one with the actionscript approach. You can then compare the code to see what might be missing from one project, but included in another.

Have you tried adding an explicit reference to [ResourceBundle("containers")] to your ActionScript project class? The mxmlc is different to the compc compiler in behaviour for many valid reasons.