ASDoc through the Flex Builder UI?

Question

Is there any way to run ASDoc on your project via the Flex Builder UI? Or, is there a good (preferably free) plugin that will do so?

If there is no UI for it, does someone have a link to a tutorial on how to set it up to be automatic when I build my project, maybe via Ant (which I've never used, but am more than happy to try) or something? (sorry for the multi-part question)

Answer 1

The solution at Seb Lee-Delisle's blog worked pretty well for me! I recommend it to anyone who is still looking for a solution. To get it working for me I had to use "Browse Workspace.." to add the specific project folder rather than use ${project_loc} as suggested for current project. Also wrap the path to your swc folder in quotes for -library-path if you have spaces in any of the directory names. Escaping the spaces in the Arguments field did not seem to work for me.

http://sebleedelisle.com/2009/03/how-to-set-up-asdoc-in-flex-builder/

If this is outdated in anyway or anyone has any bits to add it would be nice to hear them. I have not seen this explanation anywhere else yet so it was quite nice to find it worked :)

Answer 2

SourceMate also provides this feature. You can download a free 30 day trial at:

www.elementriver.com/sourcemate

SourceMate also offers many more features for Flex development too.

Answer 3

You can define a launch configuration in the external tools that will run the asdoc utility.

Details are provided in this blog post Launching ASDoc with External Tools @amieStreetDevelopment

Another one: AsDoc with Eclipse @formatlos

Answer 4

Here are some links to ant tasks that run AsDoc for you:

• one from Eric Feminella
• one from Christophe Herreman

Answer 5

This tool says it does that in a single click on the features page, although it may be a bit more than you are looking for.