We have a bunch of projects around here that we build with ANT. One of the biggest gripes with ANT builds and Flex is the amount of time it can take – Flex compiles can be slow. So whilst I’m building a project, I usually end up getting distracted for 10 or 15 minutes by [...]
by on May 5, 2007
Cairngen 1.0 – Now with ANT
Eric Feminella created Cairngen as a code generation tool for Adobe Cairngorm. he developed it to do away with the redundant copy/paste work needed to create Flex applicatoins with Cairngorm and is released under the MIT license. Cairngen 1.0 is built entirely in Ant and provides a solution for one-shot code generation of Adobe Cairngorm [...]
by on February 22, 2007
Using FlashCommand in Eclipse
Recently I pulled down Mike Chambers FlashCommand. FlashCommand is a command line compiler for the Flash IDE. I wanted to set up an ANT build script to execute builds from Eclipse without having to alt-tab between programs (yes, I’m that lazy!). Setting up the ANT script wasn’t too difficult, even for someone who knew the [...]
by on January 24, 2007
Hallelujah Ant Tasks for Flex!!!
Adobe release two Flex utilities on labs today. Adobe Labs: Flex Ant Tasks Released on Labs – Lets you build Flex applications using the ANT build management tools! Adobe Labs: Flex Compiler Shell Released on Labs – Provides a shell environment that you can use to compile Flex applications, modules, and component libraries Bonus points [...]
FB’s Incremental Compiler, Eclipse and ANT
If you’re using ANT inside Flex Builder 2 to compile your Flex 2/AS3 application you’ve probably noticed that invoking mxmlc from inside ANT is not as fast as running the integrated compiler. Dirk Eismann has a nice post about using ANT in Eclipse. Related Posts:Cairngen 1.0 – Now with ANTAdobe Camp: 1 Day, 3 Camps: [...]
