Create an EXE from a SWF using Flex 3 without requiring AIR?

Question

I have a simple little test app written in Flex 3 (MXML and some AS3). I can compile it to a SWF just fine, but I'd like to make it into an EXE so I can give it to a couple of my coworkers who might find it useful.

With Flash 8, I could just target an EXE instead of a SWF and it would wrap the SWF in a projector, and everything worked fine. Is there an equivalent to that using the Flex 3 SDK that doesn't end up requiring AIR?

Note: I don't have Flex Builder, I'm just using the free Flex 3 SDK.

Answer 1

In your Flex SDK folders you should see a 'runtimes\\player\\win\\FlashPlayer.exe' which is a stand alone Flash player. Open your SWF with that and you'll see a 'Create Projector...' menu item in the File menu which will create the stand-alone EXE.

Answer 2

imaginaryboy gets it right, I believe. Btw, since you don't have Flex Builder, you might look into the free and open source FlashDevelop if you're on Windows. It's my favorite environment for developing anything Actionscript (the Flex support is pretty great, too).

Answer 3

还有Zinc也提供API：s用于访问文件系统，而其他人认为AIR有，但限制性较小。