Hi Andrew If you reference a class in your main movie then that class will be automatically compiled into your main movie. A single reference to the class is enough to include it. There are ways to prevent that from occurring. In AS2 I believe you could create an exclude XML file that lists all the classes that you want to specifically exclude from compiling into your swf. If your list of classes is constantly changing and evolving (new classes added, old classes removed) then exclude XML files were a pain to maintain. If on the other hand all your doing is adding new methods to a class and your list of classes is fairly "static" then exclude XML files would work. There are specific rules, the name has to be the same name as your FLA file followed by something like _exclude.xml. The rules are listed somewhere in the help files or search on the web for it. The structure of the file is also fairly specific.
Back in the day I resorted to writing a small app that would parse through a directory and write the appropriate exclude for all classes within a package or the like. Unfortunately haven't used AS2 in a couple of years now so I can't give you any more hints then that. Sincerely Mark R. Jonkman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Sinning" <and...@learningware.com> To: "Flash Coders" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:27:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Flashcoders] unexpected result with linked classes in embedded swfs I'm working in AS2. The skin-swf that I am embedding into my main movie contains symbols that are linked to classes. Objects in my main movie make calls to some of the classes that are defined in the skin. In order to get nice code-hinting in Flash Develop and compile-checking, I import these same classes into some of the objects in my main-movie. If I make change to the AS file for a symbol defined in the skin-swf, but ONLY recompile the main-movie and not the skin-swf, I wouldn't expect the changes made to take effect, but they do. Does this make sense to anyone? For example: if I add a new function to a class that is linked to a symbol in the skin-swf, and I call that function from the main-movie. I would expect to have to recompile both the skin-swf and the main-movie. However, what I've found is that I only have to recompile the main-movie. It seems that if the class is imported into the main-movie, then those instructions override the instructions compiled into the skin-swf. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
