Posts Tagged ant
Remove Mac OS / Unix .DS_Store Files
It seems that Ant won’t delete directories with .DS_Store files and you can’t get rid of them in finder (b/c it’ll just replace them when you remove them), so we needed to leverage a quick command in terminal:
sudo find . -name “.DS_Store” -depth -exec rm {} \;
The aforementioned command will recursively remove all of the .DS_Store files from a given directory; we thought someone else mind find this useful.
Setting Flex Default Background Color :: Ant MXMLC + FlexBuilder + SWF MetaData :: UPDATED
I always forget this one so I decided to post it…wanna remove the default blue-gray background from your flex apps and make it the same color as your actual application?
Just put in the -default-background-color compiler switch and provide a hex color — I use white in the following example.
(Thanks for SWF MetaData reminder Ben: Return Undefined and soon migrating to Ben-Clinkenbeard-dot-com)
Ant MXMLC
<mxmlc>
...
<default-background-color>0xFFFFFF</default-background-color>
....
</mxmlc>
Flex Builder -> Project Properties -> Compiler Options -> Additional compiler arguments:
-default-background-color #FFFFFF
SWF MetaData
[SWF( backgroundColor="#FFFFFF" )]
Dealing with @Embed Tags, Ant Builds, and Paths to Resources
There’s plenty of evidence on the blogs, Adobe bugs, and elsewhere, that there are issues dealing with the compiler locating resources at compile time.
You ask yourself, where do I put my assets, my images, my CSS files?
Using one notation, Flex Builder will find the resources but switching to Ant causes all hell to break loose.
Here’s a simple and fairly elegant way to deal with it.
There are two things you need to know to understand what’s going on.
- The forward slash(/) operator is used to indicate the root. But what is root? The Flex compiler considers the ‘main source folder’ to be the root. Hence when you say ‘/’, you are actually referring to the ‘Main source folder’ (which you can set in Project>Properties>Flex Build Path>Main source folder), which in most cases would be set as the ’src’ folder.
- How to traverse a path. Pretty simple. If you do something like [Embed(source="/../assets/images/icon.jpg")] and src is your main source folder, the compiler will start at src, go up one level, find the assets folder and voila!