The ActionScript compiler generates SWFs (Flash applications) by compiling source code for classes that you write and linking in classes from SWCs (libraries) that are referenced by your code. Classes that are not referenced are not included in the SWF

I needed a SWF that contained all of the classes from a SWC, so I wrote a bash script to generate an ActionScript class that contained references to each class. The bash script reads the library's asdoc directory, and emits a reference for each class that it encounters. Classes beginning with the letter "I" are ignored, because the library that I was working with used the letter "I" to denote interfaces.

The following script accepts two parameters: the path to the asdoc directory and the path to the output file:

#!/bin/bash

function listPages {
    for f in $(find . -name \*.html); do
       if [ "${f:2:3}" == "com" ]; then echo "$f"; fi
    done
}

function writeIncludes {
    for f in $PAGES; do
        PACKAGE="$(dirname $f|sed -e "s^./^^"|tr -d '.'|tr '/' '.')"
        CLASS="$(basename $f|sed -e "s^.html^^")"
        if [ "$CLASS" != "package-detail" -a "$CLASS" != "class-list" ]; then
           echo "    import $PACKAGE.$CLASS;"
        fi
    done
}

# Does not process any classes that have names starting with "I" (interfaces)
function writeRefs {
    for f in $PAGES; do
        CLASS="$(basename $f|sed -e "s^.html^^")"
        if [ "$CLASS" != "package-detail" -a "$CLASS" != "class-list" -a ${CLASS:0:1} != "I" ]; then
           CLASS_LC="$(echo "$CLASS"|tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
           echo "      private var $CLASS_LC:$CLASS = new $CLASS();"
        fi
    done
}

function doIt {
    PAGES="$(listPages)"
    echo "package {"
    writeIncludes
    echo ""
    echo "   public class Includer {"
    writeRefs
    echo "   }"
    echo "}"
}

WD=$(pwd)
if [ "$1" ]; then cd "$1"; fi
doIt > "$WD/$2"

Here is a second bash script to drive the first:

#!/bin/bash
DIR=/path/to/asdoc
./classRefs "$DIR" "Includer/src/Includer.as"

Any constructors that require parameters will need to be corrected so the emitted class will compile. It does not matter what values you provide; null works fine for any Object, including String parameters.

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