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tyler.mcconville

01 Sep, 2016 08:58 PM

Hello,

My organization has a large Flex project that was previously built using Ant. I'm working on switching it to build with Gradle, using GradleFx. I know very little about Flex, but am familiar enough with Ant and Gradle that I didn't think it would be a huge problem to convert this.

The current module I'm converting is an SWC that was compiled with Ant using compc. Here is part of the command used to compile this library using Ant:

<java jar="${compc.jar}">
          <arg line="-theme '${flex.frameworks}/themes/Halo/halo.swc'" />
</java>

However, it says here that -theme does not work with compc. When I try to compile the Flex in Gradle, though, (with or without halo.swc specified as a theme dependency), I get a bunch of errors like this:

 C:\MyProject\MyModule\DirA\DirB\MyModalDialogWindow.mxml(334): Error: The style 'backgroundAlpha' is only supported by type 'com.my.group.MyTextArea' with the theme(s) 'halo'.

So it appears that it needs the theme to compile correctly? If I run gradle MyModule:dependencies, halo.swc is correctly listed as a theme dependency.

Let me know if that was unclear - I'm not very familiar with Flex so I may not have explained it very well. Any help would be appreciated!

1. 1 Posted by tyler.mcconvill... on 01 Sep, 2016 09:00 PM

   

   When I said "is an SWC that was compiled with Ant using compc" I meant that it is a library that compiles to a .swc file.

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Maxime Cowez on 03 Sep, 2016 08:54 AM

   

   Hey Tyler,

   As Yennick said in that other thread: you should probably add the theme as an external dependency when compiling the library, and use the theme dependency scope in the main project that leverages this library.
   Check the dependency management section in the docs for more information.

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3. 3 Posted by tyler.mcconvill... on 05 Sep, 2016 06:37 PM

   

   Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, I get the same compilation errors when specifying it as an external dependency.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Maxime Cowez on 06 Sep, 2016 08:05 PM

   

   Unfortunately it's been years since I've compiled any Flex apps.
   If adding the halo.swc as an external dep doesn't help, I'm not sure how we can investigate without looking into the code.

   I would try to recreate what that ANT build is doing on the command line (so just compc and whatever flags it needs to get it to compile your library). In the end, GradleFx is just a wrapper around Flex' command line tools, so from there you should be able to figure out how to convert it (or post your command here so we can help you).

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