flexbuilder

Can I script FlexBuilder without writing an extension?

I'd like to script FlexBuilder so that I can run debug or profile without having to switch to FlexBuilder and manually clicking the button (or using the key combo). Is this possible without writing an extension? To be more specific, this is exactly what I want to do: I want to create a TextMate command that talks to FlexBuilder and make...

Any advice for speeding up the compile time in Flex Builder 3?

I run Flex Builder 3 on a mac and as my project grows - the compile time gets longer and longer and longer. I am using some SWC's and there is a fair amount of code but it shouldn't take minutes to build and crash daily should it? ...

Is Flex development without FlexBuilder realistic?

Is it realistic to try and learn and code a Flex 3 application without purchasing FlexBuilder? Since the SDK and BlazeDS are open source, it seems technically possible to develop without Flex Builder, but how realistic is it. I would like to test out Flex but don't want to get into a situation where I am dependent on the purchase of Fle...

Managing web services in FlexBuilder - How does the manager work?

In FlexBuilder 3, there are two items under the 'Data' menu to import and manage web services. After importing a webservice, I can update it with the manage option. However, the webservices seems to disappear after they are imported. The manager does however recognize that a certain WSDL URL was imported and refuses to do anything with i...

Building Flex projects in ant/nant

We have a recurring problem at my company with build breaks in our Flex projects. The problem primarily occurs because the build that the developers do on their local machines is fundamentally different from the build that occurs on the build machine. The devs are building the projects using FlexBuilder/eclipse and the build machine is u...

What Causes Flash Error #2012 (Can't instantiate class)?

I am new to ActionScript 3 and have run into a problem: Using Flex Builder 3, I have a created a project with a few simple classes. If code in class A instantiates an object of class B (class B is in its own source file) then the code compiles fine, but I get the following run time error: ArgumentError: Error #2012: B class cannot be i...

Can I generate a Flex web and Air desktop app from the same source code?

I'm new to Air. I've got an existing Flex 2 application which I'm considering bringing into Flexbuilder 3. My question is can I use the same base application (and source code) to make the Air version, or would I have to maintain to separate code trees: one for the Air version and one for the Flex/SWF version? ...

Flex Builder 3 design view, css not being applied

I have Flex Builder 3 installed on two Windows machines and the same project on both of them. On one computer, the CSS styles I defined are shown in design view; on the other computer they are not applied. Is there any reason why it might not work on one? ...

Is there a way to get FlexBuilder 3 to treat a project as an Application and a LIbrary?

My team builds reusable libraries for other (internal) software development teams. We use FlexBuilder 3 as our development environment. Our SCM standards state that these projects must include test harnesses and a unit test runner, and (of course) we want to be able to use the debugger. For that reason, all the projects are Application...

Can you recommend a good FLEX online resource or book?

Are there any favorite online references or good introductory and intermediate/advanced books on this topic that you could recommend to me? I'm a java developer, so I'm looking for something which would be familiar as possible as to me. ...

merge custom skin & custom class into SWC

If I have an *.as file that is my custom component, a SWC class that contains the custom components skins and a css file that tells the custom class how it should look (references the SWC skin file), how do I set up a library project (using flexbuilder 3) to generate a single SWC file that will contain everything? ...

logging soap requests in flex 3

I'm trying to consume a SOAP webservice from an Adobe Flex 3 application, but the server tell me "Invalid SOAP Envelope. SOAP Body does not contain a message nor a fault". I already wrote other test clients (with both Delphi and C#) and I'm sure it's all ok on the server side, so I need to examine the SOAP envelope Flex is sending out to...

How do I get the build to automatically update a web service reference in Flex?

From within FlexBuilder3, I can go to "Data/Manage Web Services..." select a web service, and click "Update" to ensure that my code and the server are in sync. How do I automate this so that each time I build, the automatically generated web service code is regenerated? If the server interface changes during development but my code does...

Why does Flex Builder fail to connect the app so often?

Flex Builder often fails to connect to the app that it's supposed to debug. After a minute or so it times-out and says that it couldn't connect. The only way I can get it to stop doing this is by restarting Eclipse. Very annoying. Anyone know why this is? I'm using FB 3.1 and Firefox on Win XP. Many thanks! ...

Why is Eclipse deleting my files and putting them in 'Local History'!

Several times now I've had Eclipse delete files for me seemingly randomly - then they appear under the 'Local History' option. What is going on! I'm definitely not just deleting things by mistake. Most recently it deleted my template files under html-template which are quite important! I have an AIR project and a web project that ref...

What is the best Agile methodology for a class project?

The project is poorly defined: we are to write educational software for CS 111 Computer Programming I students focusing on functions. We have 6 student developers with various backgrounds working in Flex. The project has a duration of about 7 weeks. We have very limited face time (30 min per week) and very limited work time (<8 hours per...

ASDoc through the Flex Builder UI?

Is there any way to run ASDoc on your project via the Flex Builder UI? Or, is there a good (preferably free) plugin that will do so? If there is no UI for it, does someone have a link to a tutorial on how to set it up to be automatic when I build my project, maybe via Ant (which I've never used, but am more than happy to try) or someth...

How do I make FlexBuilder recognize my MXML files as applications instead of components?

I am attempting to import mxml files that I developed with Emacs into a new project in FlexBuilder...I have created a project and manually added all my MXML and actionscript files into FlexBuilder. I now can't figure out how to run the application. I believe the problem lies in the fact that FlexBuilder believes that all my mxml files ...

how can I write a generic property modification function in Flex/Actionscript3?

I'm new to Flex, although not new to programming. I want to write a generic event handler that will be called by all my textinput boxes when they receive focus. When they have focus, I want to change the colour of the textinput box. When they lose focus, I want to restore the "inactive" color profile. I could write an ActionScript even...

FLASH/FLEXBUILDER: computeSpectrum stops computing the spectrum for no reason

I'm using flex builder to compile my SWF. Im using mp3's on my local machine and computeSpectrum() to analyze the mp3. After playing for 20secs, my computeSpectrum stops returning values, instead, it starts returning this error: SecurityError: Error #2121: Security sandbox violation: SoundMixer.computeSpectrum: file:///C|/Documents%20...