As another way, what I generally do in my own code and I agree it is more verbose but more self explanatory, I use an array of those classes as a private static constant called forcedDependencies, doing so, users not knowing the trick can guess it.
Frédéric THOMAS > From: aha...@adobe.com > To: dev@flex.apache.org; li...@cranialinteractive.com > Subject: Re: git commit: [flex-utilities] [refs/heads/develop] - FLEX-34605 > cleanup > Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:17:08 +0000 > > > > On 10/25/14, 5:47 AM, "Neil Madsen" <li...@cranialinteractive.com> wrote: > > >Same error here. > > > >Alex, could you add a comment to the file explaining the reason for the > >double "AntClasses" > > OK, added a short comment. > > >I've never seen it done that way before but after reading your explanation > >it does makes sense. > > As you rummage through the SDK code, you’ll see this pattern in other > places. I think just about every SWC uses this pattern to force-link > classes into the SWC that are not listed in the MXML manifest but are > likely to be used from AS. For example [1]. > > It’s a shorthand version of the pattern documented here [2] and saves > defining a variable in the class definition. But it is a bit subtle so I > should have added a comment back when. > > Under the hood, the MXML compiler only links in classes it finds during > the compiling of a class. The Installer’s Ant_on_AIR library currently > does not have code that causes the linking in of every ant task handler > because I wanted to make it easy for folks who might use Ant_on_AIR in > other scenarios to only have to bake in the ant tasks they need for a > specific purpose. We can change that if we want, of course. So that > means the Installer, which doesn’t reference the tasks directly since > really only the Ant script it is executing that needs the task, needs some > way to get all of those tasks linked in. You don’t actually have to > assign variables with types to link in a class, just mentioning the class > in the package is good enough. > > -Alex > > [1] > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flex-sdk/repo?p=flex-sdk.git;a=blob > _plain;f=frameworks/projects/framework/src/FrameworkClasses.as;hb=develop > > [2] > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084 > -799a.html >
