FlashAntTasks

Provides ant tasks for compiling Flash CS4 Flas from Flex Builder.

An example Ant task

<taskdef resource="FlashAntTasks.properties" classpath="lib/FlashAntTasks.jar"/>
 

<flashcommand>
   <movie export="true" source="/Project/test.fla" output="/Project/swfs/test.swf" />
   <movie export="true" source="/Project/shared.fla" output="/Project/swfs/shared.swf" />
</flashcommand>

<flashcommand>
   <movie test="true" source="/Project/shell.fla" output="/Project/swfs/shell.swf" />
</flashcommand>

<!-- WINDOWS USERS NEED FLASHAPP -->
<flashcommand flashapp="c:\\program files\\Adobe\\Flash.exe">
   <movie test="true" source="/Project/shell.fla" output="/Project/swfs/shell.swf" />
</flashcommand>

Variables

flashcommand

verbose: (true or false)
flashapp: WINDOWS USERS ONLY path to your flash executable

movie

export: (true or false) exports the flash movie from source to the output directory
test: (true or false) tests the flash movie from source to the output directory, will immediately open in the ide window
source: is the path to the fla
output: is the path to the swf

Ant Installation

What you need:

Flex Builder or Eclipse
Flash IDE (CS3 and CS4)

Installation help

Help > Software Updates > Find and Install
Select "New Features to Install"
Check "Eclipse Project Updates" and hit the Run button
Click on 3.3.2 (.3 or .4) and check on the "Eclipse Java Development Tools"
Accept the license and go!

After the restart, you'll be able to use Ant. If you go to Window > Other Views... > and type in Ant you'll see the Ant view. Click that and the view should come up. In the Ant view you'll see about 5 buttons, the far left one will add your build.xml.