Comments on: Improving compile times with runtime css

By: jason

jason — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:10:47 +0000

Thanks for your post – this drastically cut down my compile time on a large project. I was constantly waiting a minute or more and now it’s down to just a few seconds.

Two things I noticed – first, you don’t have to split the style sheet into a separate project, you can leave it in, just remove all mxml inline tags that reference it and use StyleManager instead. second, if you do make changes to the stylesheet, you have to clean your project in order for the changes to take effect.

Nice work finding and posting – this is a huge, huge time-saver for me.

By: oyunlar

oyunlar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:58:18 +0000

This is sweet. Nice work!

By: oyun

oyun — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:57:57 +0000

thanks, it would probably be unnecessary to do this without fonts, fonts almost cause an immediate issue with compiling. Where it’s fairly easy just to use photoshop’s “save for web” feature and you can get a 30 – 40k image file down to 3k or 4k…

so I really would only recommend this if you have a lot of fonts or any for that matter, because of how immediate their effect is on compile times… seems that every font you embed adds a second or two to the compile times…

anyway, it does take a lot of images to slow down compile times, or at least quite a few decent sized ones… there are ways to separate images into another project using a Flex Library Project, but i’ll probably write about how to include images into the same separated project. I have to do some testing to see if it will work the way I think though.

Thanks for reading

By: reynacho

reynacho — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:56:40 +0000

This is sweet. Nice work!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:36:42 +0000

Thanks for reading

Axel

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:24:02 +0000

Very nice. I’ll use this technique the next time I have an asset intensive project.