ADOBE® FLEX® 3: BUILDING AND DEPLOYING ADOBE FLEX 3 APPLICATIONS

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<dc:publisher>Franks Beans</dc:publisher>

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For information on the SWF file format, see the Flash File Format Specification, which is available through the

Player Licensing program.

Setting the file encoding

You use the actionscript-file-encoding option to set the file encoding so that the application compiler

correctly interprets ActionScript files. This tag does not affect MXML files because they are XML files that contain

an encoding specification in the

xml tag.

You use the

actionscript-file-encoding option when your ActionScript files do not contain a Byte Order

Mark (BOM), and the files use an encoding that is different from the default encoding of your computer. If your

ActionScript files contain a BOM, the compiler uses the information in the BOM to determine the file encoding.

For example, if your ActionScript files use Shift_JIS encoding, have no BOM, and your computer uses ISO-8859-

1 as the default encoding, you use the

actionscript-file-encoding option, as the following example shows:

actionscript-file-encoding=Shift_JIS

Editing application settings

The mxmlc compiler includes options to set the application’s frame rate, size, script limits, and background color.

By setting them when you compile your application, you do not need to edit the HTML wrapper or the appli-

cation’s MXML file. You can override these settings by using properties of the

<mx:Application> tag or

properties of the

<object> and <embed> tags in the HTML wrapper.

The following command-line example sets default application properties:

mxmlc -default-size 240 240 -default-frame-rate=24 -default-background-color=0xCCCCFF -

default-script-limits 5000 10 -- c:/myfiles/flex2/misc/MainApp.mxml

To successfully apply the value of the default-background-color option to your Flex application, you must set

the default background image to an empty string. Otherwise, this image of a gray gradient covers the background

color. For more information, see “Application Container” on page 451 in Adobe Flex 3 Developer Guide.