Re: Is it possible to use Apache Flex 4.8 when targeting Flash Player 11.4?

[Justin Mclean]

Hi,

> That's interesting, Justin. What did you have to change within the SDK
> to support any recent version of Flash Player?
If your interested take a look at the changes I did in the patches branch. 
There were no changes to any of the SDK code to get 4.6 SDK to compile for 10.3 
and up but build scrip changes. You may run into issue with performance when 
compiling for mobile. When the full Mustella test are submitted I was going to 
try them on each version of the Flash Player to make sure nothing is broken.

> I guess there needs to be mechanism to select the correct playerglobal.swc 
> depending on the
> swf-version parameter passed into the compiler, right?
Yep. flex-config.xml also need the right target-player and swf-version set in 
flex-config.xml

Here's the ant script segment:

        <target name="flexconfig" depends="playerglobal-setswfversion" 
description="Copy the flex config template to flex-config.xml and inject 
version numbers">
                <copy file="${basedir}/flex-config.template.xml" 
tofile="${basedir}/flex-config.xml" overwrite="true">
                        <filterset>
                                <filter token="playerversion" 
value="${playerglobal.version}"/>
                                <filter token="swfversion" 
value="${playerglobal.swfversion}"/>
                                <filter token="locale" value="${locale}"/>
                        </filterset>
                </copy>
        </target>

        <target name="playerglobal-setswfversion" description="Set the 
swfversion to insert into the flex config file">
                <condition property="playerglobal.swfversion" value="11">
                        <equals arg1="${playerglobal.version}" arg2="10.2" />
                </condition>
                <condition property="playerglobal.swfversion" value="12">
                        <equals arg1="${playerglobal.version}" arg2="10.3" />
                </condition>
                <condition property="playerglobal.swfversion" value="13">
                        <equals arg1="${playerglobal.version}" arg2="11.0" />
                </condition>
                <condition property="playerglobal.swfversion" value="14">
                        <equals arg1="${playerglobal.version}" arg2="11.1" />
                </condition>
                <condition property="playerglobal.swfversion" value="15">
                        <equals arg1="${playerglobal.version}" arg2="11.2" />
                </condition>
                <condition property="playerglobal.swfversion" value="16">
                        <equals arg1="${playerglobal.version}" arg2="11.3" />
                </condition>
                <condition property="playerglobal.swfversion" value="17">
                        <equals arg1="${playerglobal.version}" arg2="11.4" />
                </condition>
        </target>

Feel free to have a go at changing the build scripts yourself if you want, you 
certainly lean a few things along the way (as I did).

Thanks,
Justin