[osflash] AS Class Exporter Project -- A utility for flash developers

[Juan Pablo Califano]

Hi all,
 
I'm developing a utility called AS Class Exporter and thought that I'd share it in case someone is interested in taking a look. It's a C# / .NET app  (initially I tried to develop it in Python, but run into some problems, so I chose to do it .NET). 
 
It intends to solve a frequent problem that I've run into in many Flash projects. Often, I'd place the classes and packages for a project inside a "fla" or "src" a folder, so the code is accessible to the fla files, which live in that same folder, without any extra classpath configuration. I'd also use "common" code from a central repository, as well (the kind of code that is generic enough that can be shared among many projects).
 
The problem is, when you have to give the sources of the project to someone, in order for them to be able to compile the fla's, you'd either have to give them your whole central repository (most of which is not relevant or needed to the project at hand), or manually track down which classes are being referenced in your project's code. Then you'd have to create folders that follow the original package/folder layout and manually copy and paste your .as files. A couple of times I had to do that and it was rather painful, time consuming and error prone. So, I started developing this project based on my own needs as a way to automatize all that tedious work. 
 
I've hosted the project in google code (http://code.google.com/p/as2-class-exporter/), so it's available there if anyone who has come across the same problem wants to take a look / give it a try. It's open source -- MIT licensed. Basically, it's free (as in free beer and in freedom of speech), so you can do whatever you want with it. I've created a page for the project in osflash.org as well (http://osflash.org/projects/asclassexporter).
 
There's still not much documentation, just the source code and 2 compiled versions for AVM1 & AVM2 swfs (exported for player versions 8 or previous, or 9, respectively), in case you are not interested in the sources and just want to use it "out of the box".
 
It's windows only so far (sorry, I'm a Windows dork, and have no experience with Mac, Linux or any other OS). It requires the .NET framework 1.1 and Flash Player 8 installed. To pop-up the xml status log after the export is done, it also assumes that Internet Explorer (iexplore) is in your path, which, to my knowledge, is a very fair assumption if you are running Windows.
 
I'd appreciate very much any suggestions, comments, ideas, or critics. 
 
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
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