Jeff dePascale Blogging on and developing web and mobile technologies

Creating partial package SWC files

If you're a Flex developer, SWC's are nothing new to you. But for Flash dev's, SWC files are one of those 'yea I've seen those, but I don't totally understand how, what, or why I'm supposed to use them' things in Flash development. They're incredibly useful - if you know exactly how to use them. Especially in CS3 (CS4 made it a little less painless with the explicit abiliy to specify SWC files as internal or external libraries). Unfortunately, generating them can be even more confusing. there just isn't much documentation, and if you use the flex sdk and/or FlashDevelop, the compc.exe command line options are daunting.