@Dale: I am sure you are referring to just de-selecting the "automatic compile on save" functionality in FB and will use ant to do your work for you. If you go into "Project Properties" for each project in your workspace and choose "Builders" you will see a builder labeled "Compiler". If you de-select this it should do the trick. Note that this is also where you could add your ant tasks, too. I had one in a recent assignment where we had ant tasks that did the build and push (Mac, Linux, etc.) where we added the ant tasks for those activities.
But you will need a Flex SDK selected to get your syntax highlighting and checking. As @Tom suggested you can choose your own SDK. Go into your Workspace settings (Mac: Eclipse / FB Preferences, Windows: Window -> Preferences) -> Flash Builder -> Installed SDK's, and you should see "Flex 3.6A" listed there. If you do not then you will find it in your root Flash Builder install location under "sdks/3.6.0". This was the last MX build of the framework. Once it is there then it is a simple matter to go into each project's properties and choose "Flex Compiler -> Use a specific SDK" to get the 3.6 one. That way you will get your syntax highlighting and drill down into the Flex source when you need it. I recommend leaving compiling enabled even if you do not use the compiled output. It will really help catch things before building with ant, and it will give you links to the errors: a real time saver. Good luck with your project. At yet another assignment I had a large Flex project in MX that I upgraded to Spark totally. Boy, what a difference! Spark is so much smaller, lighter, faster, smaller memory footprint, super smooth and fast rendering, and visual control. Best regards, Dennis Flanagan On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:38 AM Tom McNeer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dale, > > It shouldn't be a problem. I have much the same situation - a Flex 3 app > originally built years ago that still needs enhancements until we can move > to JS. > > I use FB 4.5 without a problem. The issue is not the FB version, but the > SDK used for compilation. You just need to use a version 3 SDK (probably > 3.6) to compile your project. > > It's probably included in a new FB 4 installation, though I don't > remember. If not, the SDK should be available as a separate download. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Dale Bronk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all you Flex peeps... >> >> I'm on an old, but large, Flex 3 project and will be taking it over. We >> have no want to upgrade this app to a newer version of Flex. At some point >> we will upgrade to more modern JS frameworks and HTML5. But we would like >> to upgrade from FlexBuilder 3 to FlashBuilder 4.7. Is it possible to >> simply install FlashBuilder 4.7 and keep our app 100% Flex 3. That means >> compilers and all. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dale >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Thanks, > > Tom > > Tom McNeer > MediumCool > http://www.mediumcool.com > 1735 Johnson Road NE > Atlanta, GA 30306 > 404.589.0560 >
