ADOBE® FLEX® BUILDER™ 3: USING ADOBE FLEX BUILDER 3

ADOBE FLEX BUILDER 3

Using Adobe Flex Builder 3

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Managing projects

You use the Flex Navigator view to add and import resources into projects, export projects, and move and delete

resources.

Setting Flex project properties

Each Flex project has its own set of properties. To set these properties, select the project in the Flex Navigator view.

Then select Project > Properties from the main menu, or right-click (Control-click on Macintosh) to display the

context menu and select Properties.

You can set the following project-specific preferences in Flex Builder:

Resource Displays general information about the project, settings for text encoding, and the operating system

line delimiter.

Builders Specifies the build tool to use. A standard builder is included in Flex Builder. You can use Apache

Ant (an open-source build tool) to create build scripts or import existing Ant build scripts. (See “Customizing

builds with Apache Ant” on page 131.)

Flex Applications Displays the names of the project files that are set as application files, which can be

compiled, debugged, and run as separate applications. (See “Managing project application files” on page 40.)

Flex Build Path Specifies the build path, which specifies where external source and library files are located.

You can modify the build path and also change the name of the output folder. (See “Setting up a project output

folder” on page 124 and “Building projects manually” on page 128.)

Flex Compiler Specifies optional compiler preferences, such as generating an accessible SWF file, enabling

compiler warnings and type checking, specifying additional compiler arguments, Flex SDK version, and sets

HTML wrapper settings. (See “Advanced build options” on page 128.)