Much of the remaining overhead comes from the Flex SDK itself; but Flex 3 has a very nice new feature to help with that: "Persistent framework caching." See http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3_whatsnew.html , the second paragraph of the section titled "Platform evolution," for a description of the feature.
Using this feature in your code is pretty easy; just requires some changes to the project's properties. See http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions#Persistent_Framework_Caching_.28also_known_as_framework_RSLs_or_cross-domain_RSLs.2C_Updated_for_Beta_2.29 , the section on "persistent framework caching," for a video and a writeup. - Mike Morearty, Adobe Flex Builder team --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "sdl1326" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks. That dropped about 95kb off of the file size ~ down to 160kb. > However, it is still pretty bloated. Again, removing all of the > component code, and just publishing the basic application file code, > drops 10kb off of the fie size down to 150kb. Which means the > component is only 10kb. IMO, that seems like a lot of overhead. Are > there any other tricks? > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Hergenreder" <aaron@> wrote: > > > > If you go to Project->Export Release Build it will reduce the file size > > some. I'm sure there is some overhead, but I believe the release build > > removes the debugging overhead (just guessing). Try that and see > what you > > come up with. > > > > > > _____ > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of azsl1326-email@ > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:20 PM > > To: flex > > Subject: [flexcoders] SWF File Size > > > > > > > > > > Hello All --- > > > > I am new to Flex and just started using the Beta of Flex 3. I created a > > simple TitleWindow with a generic button and noticed that the file > size of > > the SWF is about 254KB. If I remove all of the code and just publish an > > empty application file, the size drops to 238KB. Is there a way to > reduce > > the overall file size. Are things getting compiled that are extraneous? > > > > Thanks for any and all replies. > > >
