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Herms
Herms

Reputation: 38868

Create an EXE from a SWF using Flex 3 without requiring AIR?

I have a simple little test app written in Flex 3 (MXML and some AS3). I can compile it to a SWF just fine, but I'd like to make it into an EXE so I can give it to a couple of my coworkers who might find it useful.

With Flash 8, I could just target an EXE instead of a SWF and it would wrap the SWF in a projector, and everything worked fine. Is there an equivalent to that using the Flex 3 SDK that doesn't end up requiring AIR?

Note: I don't have Flex Builder, I'm just using the free Flex 3 SDK.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 14081

Answers (3)

Theo
Theo

Reputation: 132952

There's also Zinc that also provides API:s for accessing the filesystem and other thinks that AIR does, but less restrictive.

Upvotes: 1

Brian Warshaw
Brian Warshaw

Reputation: 22984

imaginaryboy gets it right, I believe. Btw, since you don't have Flex Builder, you might look into the free and open source FlashDevelop if you're on Windows. It's my favorite environment for developing anything Actionscript (the Flex support is pretty great, too).

Upvotes: 2

imaginaryboy
imaginaryboy

Reputation: 5999

In your Flex SDK folders you should see a 'runtimes\player\win\FlashPlayer.exe' which is a stand alone Flash player. Open your SWF with that and you'll see a 'Create Projector...' menu item in the File menu which will create the stand-alone EXE.

Upvotes: 22

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