Flex :: Create A 'command Line' Swf?
Jun 28, 2009
I'd like to be able to write a .swf file that is runnable as a command line app. In other words, I would be able to create actionscript classes which can interact with stdin and stdout, and could then execute that .swf directly in the command line. I suspect that this isn't really possible. Can anyone confirm that? EDIT: A couple of the answers pointed out that using Flash for command line work probably isn't the best choice. I wholeheartedly agree in most situations. The reason I am asking about this is because I want to do some AS3 code generation, and reflecting on AS3 classes within the runtime would be easier than parsing the code or walking the intermediary XML that asdoc produces. I'm doing the XML approach now in Ruby, but would love to have a cleaner solution!
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I'd like to be able to write a .swf file that is runnable as a command line app. In other words, I would be able to create actionscript classes which can interact with stdin and stdout, and could then execute that .swf directly in the command line.I suspect that this isn't really possible. Can anyone confirm that?EDIT:A couple of the answers pointed out that using Flash for command line work probably isn't the best choice. I wholeheartedly agree in most situations. The reason I am asking about this is because I want to do some AS3 code generation, and reflecting on AS3 classes within the runtime would be easier than parsing the code or walking the intermediary XML that asdoc produces
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Jan 16, 2010
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May 26, 2010
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Feb 20, 2010
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Nov 8, 2010
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May 13, 2011
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Aug 31, 2011
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May 23, 2011
I have a built a mobile application using flash builder burrito and when i export the app from the builder the size of the apk file is say 1180KB,but when i try packaging the same application from the command line the size increases dramatically(to 2679KB).In both the cases if we see the size of swf file it is 2679KB only.So the builder is using some compression techniques to reduce the file size.Is there any options available in command line to do the same compression technique??.I have used the following command to package the swf file..
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Sep 20, 2011
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Mar 12, 2011
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My group is working on a Flex/AS3 scientific web application that is data intensive. Luckily the only plots involved are line charts. However, each line chart may have multiple traces (up to 24), and each trace may contain up to 2000 points. The user will need to zoom in and out and interact with the data (e.g. data tips, etc.).
The response I'm getting from developers is that's a lot of data to render in a plot in Flash. For reasons beyond the scope of this post, we can't sample the data to reduce the size (this has already been done and nature of the data prevents further sampling).
Rendering speed is critical for this app. What kind of rendering speed should I expect the Flex 4 line chart component to provide for a given number of points (e.g. 1 second to render 1000 points?)
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Mar 8, 2012
First off - I'm not super familiar with Flash Builder or ActionScript.I have an ActionScript project in Flash Builder.I know I can generate a swc file by doing Project > Build, and it will build a swc file from my ActionScript source code.Is there a way to generate the swc in command line or ant? I'd like to be able to put this build process inside a build script so I don't need to go through Flash Builder to build the swc file everytime.
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Nov 26, 2009
I have done a few small flash projects and have successfully passed and retrieved FlashVars when the .swf is embedded in a web page.I want to build a small app that will run standalone i.e. not in a browser and want to pass to the swf the name of a text file on the command line that has various config options in.This is for a kiosk type app. I'm aware of Zinc and maybe that's the way I need to go.
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Mar 22, 2010
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Aug 20, 2010
I am building an app using ActionScript3 with Flash Builder 4 as my IDE.
The IDE supports a unit testing framework called "FlexUnit".
I can build and run tests within the IDE, no problem.
After much pain and suffering I figured out how to build the unit tests as a swf from the command line. I can point a browser or flash player at the swf and the tests run.
But for an automated build system this is no good: I would like to build the tests, run them, and collect/analyze the results to tell which tests, if any, are failing.
I can imaging some hackery: hack FlexUnit base libraries to dump output to stderr instead of just to the IDE console. Hack some script together that points a browser at the swf, counts to 60, kills the browser and checks stderr.
But that's hideous.
I have to believe there's some way to build and run from the command line that works nicely with automated build systems.
Further complication: I am a relative noob with ActionScript (~1 month). My background is C++, makefiles, etc. All the stuff I had to do to get the tests even to build outside the ide (a build.xml file, ant) was complete greek to me, just cut n pasting from examples I could find.
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Sep 19, 2010
When working on small projects or some test classes , I would prefer to quickly compile my code from the command line as opposed to creating a full Actionscript project in Flash Builder for instance.
In a previous similar question , an answer was given referring to this article:[URL]..but this is for Windows user...
I had a look at ProjectSprouts, which seems excellent but too heavy for the sort of task I'm looking for.
Would you know of any alternative approach that could be used to quickly compile a swf from the Terminal on Mac OSX?
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Oct 8, 2010
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Nov 1, 2010
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Feb 23, 2011
i am trying to find out how to build my .as for mobile browser on Android 2.2 smartphone.I downloaded latest distribution of "Hero" SDK, but all tutorials show only how to create mobile project with Flash Builder. how to build .swf from command line mxmlc for mobile ?
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Dec 8, 2010
I'm trying to automate sound processing on a large number of audio files. The Actionscript API for dealing with audio files is simple and satisfies my needs, is there a way I could write a script that could be run on the command line and potentially on a cron?
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