Creating a projector file with a FlexBuilder Actionscript project
There is no way to do it inside of FlexBuilder, but luckily its still pretty easy to do it in the Flash Player. Just open up the flash application (if you have FlexBuilder installed it will be under Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3/Player/, under Windows the path is the same except you substitute C:/Program Files in the place of Applications. Once you open that, go to the file menu and click open to browse to your swf.
Open it, and if you don’t get some ridiculous security sandbox error, you should be able to go to the file menu again and click create projector.
Pretty neat little trick if you can’t stand doing much of anything in the Flash IDE but still need a projector file. Other applications like MDM’s Zinc will do roughly the same as well, if you’re willing to fork out the cash.
3 Responses to “Creating a projector file with a FlexBuilder Actionscript project”
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anakin on April 10th, 2008
thanks, nice workaround….
but one more ‘lil question: how do you specify the size of your projector? I can not force any size to it (except fullscreen via fscommand)?!?
crebstock on April 18th, 2008
Unfortunately the best you can do is set your stage to not scale. That way when they make the window too big, it won’t screw up the size, and if they make it too small scroll bars will appear. I don’t believe there is a way to force a size though. Zinc or SWFStudio could do what you’re looking for though. Zinc works great with Flex pure AS3 projects.