Relative Classpaths in AS3
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I’ve been working in AS3 for about a year now and everyone in awhile I slip and use an AS2 property reference, for example ._alpha vs .alpha. The other place I find myself slipping is with classpaths. I work in a SVN development environment so it is important that all classpaths are defined relatively so they work across machines.
For simplicity’s sake here’s a sample of a very basic small Flash project.
In AS2 I would set the classpath as “classes/” to have access to the MyClass.as file in my project.fla.
In AS3 that doesn’t fly and the classpath must be set as ”../myProject/classes” or “./classes”. I’m not 100% clear on why “classes/” no longer works as all three paths seem the same to me, but suffice to say this caused a fair share of headaches when I first made the jump to AS3.
One Response to “Relative Classpaths in AS3”
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HaunGo Says:
November 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pmThank you for making a post on this.. .. I too was starting to get a headache. “./classes” is what I’m going with.
-H