ActionScript 3.0 :: What Is The Optimal Way Of Exporting SWCs From Flash CS
Mar 3, 2011
I got a question in need of somebody who knows a lot more internals of the Flash system than I do. My artist designs the objects I use in my games as Movie Clips in Flash CS 4. I export those Movie Clips from Flash CS 4 to Flash Builder 4 via a SWC file. In order to do this, I select "export for ActionScript" in Flash CS 4, and "Export in Frame 1".
1. If a Movie Clip has 20 frames, does Flash export 20 drawings, 1 for each frame? If not, how does it do it?
2. I heard that if I have scripts in the frames, I will definitely get more objects instantiated, thus, for many instances of the Movie Clip in my game, I will get a performance hit.
3. Is it ok to add my scripts via "addFrameScript" in the Flash Builder-side, rather than put them in Flash CS 4?
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I have a bunch of graphics assets in a fla, the MovieClips are linked to some classes. I export the fla as a swc , which I add to my library with the option "Merged into Code".All works great, I can create instances of my MovieClips , just by calling their classes like this.
example 1
var newMc:BaseClass = new GraphicAsset();
Now if I want do the following , Flash throws an error , GraphicsAssetClass is null!
//example 2
var GraphicsAssetClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("GraphicAsset") as Class;
The only way I can get the above line to work is to do this
//example 3
var newMc:GraphicAsset;
var GraphicsAssetClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("GraphicAsset") as Class;[code]....
where I could simply get the class by calling getDefinitionByName()like I do on example 2 , without having to resort to example 3 solution.
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1. If I created the SWC in CS4, Flex immediately crashes when it reads the file. When I re-open Flex it either crashes immediately or does so when I switch to design view and try to have access to the components panel where the new SWC should appear.
2. If I created the SWC in CS3, I perform the steps in Flex, and it seems like everything is OK, but the new component simply doesn't appear in the components panel at all. Flex behaves normally otherwise.
I can import third-party SWCs just fine in Flex otherwise.
Does anyone know what may be going on? I've even dumbed down my SWC to just a single movieclip containing a fill instead of something containing Actionscript, and it still behaves the same way.
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Since I have a lot of SWCs that all use the same font in dynamic textfields, I do not want to embed the font in every SWC.Instead I want to have a library (RSL?) with the font from where all the SWCs load the font.
I tried to build a library file with the fonts using the "Export for runtime sharing" feature in Flash.While it works perfectly when I stay in Flash, Flex throws an "internal build error" when I try to use these SWCs in Flex.
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You may have to unzip it first and extract out the SWF, but this arduous process could be made easier with a few helper classes. In fact, having the "catalog.xml" there may also make it easier to identify which classes are contained within (which means you don't need to guess or assume which classes are in it). Has anyone tried this yet or know of anyone else who has?
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