AIR application icons in Flex 3 beta 3 - Flex bug

February 21st, 2008

There is a bug in Flex 3 beta 3 (mine is build 3.0.190133 using MB Pro with OSX Leopard) while trying to create AIR icons for delivered app. You get error "Error creating AIR file: 303: ERROR...".

First, you provide Flex compiler with requested data in your *-app.xml file, just as usual:

<icon>
<image16x16>assets/icons/icon_16.png</image16x16>
<image32x32>assets/icons/icon_32.png</image32x32>
<image48x48>assets/icons/icon_48.png</image48x48>
<image128x128>assets/icons/icon_128.png</image128x128>
</icon>

The bug is being reproduced if you have unchecked "Copy non-embedded files to output folder" option in Flex Compiler settings. I have tried to workaround it by copying needed files to "bin-debug" folder, trying to change path etc. All failed.

The only working workaround is to check again "Copy non-embedded files to output folder" and recompile your application once again. That's pity, because I really like to have my projects clean. Hope that Adobe will work on buggy editions of Flex Builder...

Added:

I have found this bug in official Flex Bug list:

When you uncheck "Copy non-embedded files to output folder" you can no longer compile your air app with custom icons...

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