Hi Doobie and thanks for your answer! I just managed to get my first SWC into Flex ::- D. *rejoices*. However, I can't do anything with it ::- (... I have this "Game.swc". In CS3, I set "Game.as" to its class. Game.as is in the same folder as Game.swc. After importing it in Flex, I modified "Game.as". I added a trace. But nothing shows when I run it with Flex ::- ( ... please don't tell me I need to recompile the SWC if I modify the AS. As far as I understood so far that's the whole thing when using SWCs, you can code without Flash... so why don't my modifications take place?
Axonn. doobiekeebler wrote: > > Hey, so I've been making some games in Flex Builder myself. Basically I > got fed up with the Actionscript editor in Flash a few years ago, and > then switched to Flash Develop. Flash Develop is a really great (and > free) tool. > > However, I ditched that once I got Flex Builder, because as much as I > loved Flash Develop, Flex worked a lot better for me. I still use Flash > Develop if I have to compile in the Flash IDE. > > Anyway, the others are right, Flex and Flash are all Flash. The reason > to use the Flex framework is to get some great UI components, and a > great framework to develop a rich internet application in. > > I use Flex all the time, though that said, I stay clear of it for games > since typically the framework is overkill in the "application" > department for what I need. > > Flex Builder, though, is VERY handy for making games. Specifically your > example with the rectangles - there are two ways to do this. > The first is like what you said and to make a SWF. You can simply embed > the SWF using the embed metatag. I'm going to completely butcher it, > but it's something like this: > > [Embed( file='myswf.swf', symbol='myrectangle')] > public var myrectangle:Class > > You can do this with pngs, gifs, jpgs, or swfs. Its simply just another > graphical resource to use. It's a little wacky though because you have > to assign type it as a class first, and then you can say: > > var x:myrectange = new myrectangle(); > > Typically I tend not to do this. My method of choice is to compile a SWC. > If you embed a SWF in the above fashion, you will lose any and all code > associated with it. That means if you have any frame labels, any, > stops, any gotoAndPlay's in there, it's lost. > > If you use a SWC you can use it just for graphics, or you can make your > graphics smarter with some code. Just go to the file properties and add > the SWC into the library. > > In this fashion, you now have code completion, and dont have to worry > about embedding as the library is linked to the project. > > All you have to do is make sure that your rectangle has AS3 export > linkage assigned in the symbol properties in the Flash IDE, and then > just export the SWC. Once in Flex Builder, you don't import anything > (as its all in the local namepsace), and just do new myrectangle(); > > Hope that helps. SWCs are great stuff. > ben > > > Axonn wrote: >> >> >> Hm, I think I didn't ask the right question, because somebody told me >> that it >> *is* possible. >> >> What I want is this: >> >> - Create a FLA file in Flash. >> - Draw 2 rectangles. >> - Create an AS file in Flex 3. >> - Attach it to the Flash. >> - Export as SWF. >> - Continue development in Flex 3. When hit "debug", my Flash-created SWF >> starts but the debug code is attached to Flex 3, because I am in Flex >> 3. But >> you know Flex 3 creates that default SWF. I don't want that. I want to >> use >> the Flash SWF, which *DOES* have my AS class from Flex in it. >> - DO modifications to the AS but DON'T START FLASH AGAIN until I need to >> modify graphics and such. >> >> Axonn. >> >> That is correct. Flex can only debug code in flex itself. >> >> I did see a book at barnes and noble last week that dealt with games in >> Flex (but I forgot the name of it). >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/I-want-to-use-Flex-Builder-3-to-develop-Flash-Games-tp22752546p22766233.html >> >> <http://www.nabble.com/I-want-to-use-Flex-Builder-3-to-develop-Flash-Games-tp22752546p22766233.html> >> Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/I-want-to-use-Flex-Builder-3-to-develop-Flash-Games-tp22752546p22771991.html Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
