Comments on: Flex modules not rebuilding correctly

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:27:12 +0000

When I have similar issues, I check the build order of the projects in Eclipse and refresh the source paths (files in source paths are not always in sync with the files in the original project). After that, cleaning all projects has worked out fine for me (within the limit of all FlexBuilder bugs…)

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:58:09 +0000

@Elias – I meant the project is really too big for me to realistically refactor the names of all the modules. Something that Rasmus might not have meant me to do in the first place, so maybe the point is moot. In general, modules work great with little effort. You can take those very simple examples in the documentation, add tons of complexity, and it still generally works well.

@Rasmus – I hadn’t renamed any of the modules, and I understand what you meant now.

As for the solution, it was a couple-fold,

1) I used the unix command touch to update the timestamp on all of the flex module files. This seemed to make some of them rebuild.

2) I used the output from the ant build script to find the errors and fix them, once the actual file was modified, that module would successfully rebuild in ant and flex builder.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:19:23 +0000

I mean that renaming the modules can cause these problems, in my experience..
My solution was to make a new module, from scratch, and then fill in all the logic from the module that wont compile.

By: Elias

Elias — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:40:48 +0000

Hi
What do you mean with too big?
I’m asking this because i’m planning to move a portal made in .net to flex so i’m searching information about how to work with modules and i can’t seem to find real working examples, i only find those simple examples from Adobe. Can you help me on this?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:38:11 +0000

I’ve had this issue as well… many times. I’m very curious to see if there is a fix out there!

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:30:45 +0000

Unfortunately renaming the modules is not an option. This project is just too big with too many modules and a large enough team working on it to make that easy.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:28:09 +0000

I experienced that too..
Did you by any point rename your modules ?
try to make a new moduel, and copy the code from the old module. It works for me.

Rasmus