Comments on: keep-as3-metadata – But I never want to loose it!

By: Jacob Wright

Jacob Wright — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:33:09 +0000

I will be using your Externalizer as an example of projects that use metadata in my 360 Flex presentation this next week. I hope you don’t mind. Also, with Flex Builder 3, if your SWC was compiled with the -keep-as3-metadata option, any project the SWC is used in don’t need to add it. It will be added automatically! Very useful, though I still agree they should just keep out certain ones as your bugbase issue states.

By: Jacob Wright

Jacob Wright — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:42:25 +0000

If you make Externaliser into a library project (to generate a swc for use in projects) then adding -keep-as3-metadata Externalise to the libraries compiler options will allow that tag to be kept in the projects that use the swc.

I wrote about it here and will be speaking on it at 360 Flex (among other topics)

http://jacwright.com/blog/72/using-your-own-custom-metadata-in-as3/

People won’t have to worry about adding any compiler options to use your swc. As long as it’s in Flex Builder 3. Hope that helps!

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:05:40 +0000

I’ve just build another usage of metadata example : http://ria-workshop.blogspot.com/2008/07/actions-framework-for-flex-part-3.html but this tricks with “keep-as3-metadata” are stupid – another thing to configure. Only 2 votes on JIRA

By: Adrian Aioanei

Adrian Aioanei — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:10:42 +0000

Nice, I’m interested is this matter too so just send the bug url I’ll vote for it too.
Standing-by for the Externalise class

Adrian.