If you turn on the shared RSL, it will shrink the swf significantly.
Frameworks tend to be heavy, especially if the focus is on RAD. Just look at any MFC app. DG brings in the collections subsystem, ADG brings in hierarchical collections. The framework is not included in the Flash 9 runtime. It has to be downloaded by some app into that user's browser, then other apps can use it. -Alex ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of whatabrain Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Why is my swf so big? Probably an old question, but I didn't find anything useful by searching the group. I'm using the trial version of Flex Builder 3 Standard. I create a new Flex project, and, without writing any code, export a release build. The swf file size is 147KB. Then I create a project that contains nothing but an empty DataGrid. The file size grows to 242KB! Throw in an AdvancedDataGrid, and it's up to 300KB. Is there anything I can do to reduce the size? Even 147KB seems huge for an empty app. And why does DataGrid pump it up so much? I heard that the Flex framework was included in the Flash 9 runtime. If that's true, adding a DataGrid should have no effect on output size.
