Does Flex Builder remove unused code?

Hi, I have alot of dead code in app that is resulting in an unnecessarily large SWF. Is there a way to make the flex compiler remove unused functions?

Although tedious, drkstr_1 has the plan of action. Generally you should need to clean up orphaned code and remove all trace statements. I often see the tracing statements of other Flash Player products when doing development and some are quite revealing if not embarrasing.
Also "unnecessarily large swf" begs the question what is large? If in Flash IDE did you run the bandwidth report to see exactly what makes it "unnecessarily large swf". You see this option in the publish settings.
Typically code is not going to make a "unnecessarily large swf" but rather digital assets embedded and fonts embedded. Code could make it "unnecessarily large swf" if there are lots of libraries you are using and you are only using some tiny part of the library which you could refactor or find a snippet on the net.
Last "unnecessarily large swf" in relation to what bandwidth? Do you have a targeted minimum bandwidth to make the assessment "unnecessarily large swf"?

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Where does flex builder keep refererences to the flex projects?

Where does flex builder keep refererences to the flex projects?
I'm getting an error like this on FB3 startup:
The folder PR System Intranet does not exist in the workspace so the reference must be somewhere else.
thanks
!SESSION 2009-11-02 09:47:52.203 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.5.0_11
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_GB
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 2 10035 2009-11-02 09:47:53.610
!MESSAGE The workspace exited with unsaved changes in the previous session; refreshing workspace to recover changes.
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 567 2009-11-02 09:47:53.829
!MESSAGE Workspace restored, but some problems occurred.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.core.resources 4 567 2009-11-02 09:47:53.829
!MESSAGE Could not read metadata for 'PR System Intranet'.
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ResourceException: The project description file (.project) for 'PR System Intranet' is missing. This file contains important information about the project. The project will not function properly until this file is restored.
at org.eclipse.core.internal.localstore.FileSystemResourceManager.read(FileSystemResourceMan ager.java:663)
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at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.SaveManager.restoreMetaInfo(SaveManager.java:772)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.SaveManager.restore(SaveManager.java:663)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.SaveManager.startup(SaveManager.java:1319)
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at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$2.run(BundleContextImpl.java:9 99)
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at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
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Thanks but that file contains things like
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<actionScriptProperties mainApplicationPath="main.mxml" version="3">
<compiler additionalCompilerArguments="-services "X:\Coldfusion9\wwwroot\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml" -locale en_US" copyDependentFiles="true" enableModuleDebug="true" flexSDK="Flex 3.2" generateAccessible="true" htmlExpressInstall="true" htmlGenerate="false" htmlHistoryManagement="true" htmlPlayerVersion="9.0.28" htmlPlayerVersionCheck="true" outputFolderPath="Staff_Ratings-debug" sourceFolderPath="src" strict="true" useApolloConfig="false" verifyDigests="true" warn="true">
<compilerSourcePath>
<compilerSourcePathEntry kind="1" linkType="1" path="H:/flash"/>
</compilerSourcePath>
<libraryPath defaultLinkType="1">
<libraryPathEntry kind="4" path=""/>
</libraryPath>
<sourceAttachmentPath/>
</compiler>
<applications>
<application path="main.mxml"/>
</applications>
<modules/>
<buildCSSFiles/>
</actionScriptProperties>
I don't see how FB3 knows about the
Pr System Intranet
project that seems to be the cause of the errors.

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Does Flex Builder 3 Data Services support Soap 1.2?
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the files, when i close flex builder and reboot i can copy the
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leotemp wrote:
> Every time i launch flex builder it seems to for some
reason replace my
> external files(asp files that gernerate xml) with older
versions. Sometimes
> during work updates i make to these files stop occuring
entirely, its as if im
> not able to save over or copy over the files, when i
close flex builder and
> reboot i can copy the files from last time i backed up
and work for a little
> while longer, it just started doing this. My files are
in the bin directory
> with all the other files and maybe thats bad, anyways
any advice would be great.
>
> leo
>
When you compile and run a flex application in flex builder
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generated xml files in your project? If so, then the ones in
the bin
folder will get overwritten.
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[svn] 3120: When you point Flex Builder at a local sandbox trunk build, it couldn' t generate the html-templates folder correctly for new projects so we moved all the html templates up one level and removed the html-templates directory and adjusted build

Revision: 3120
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-09-05 10:44:10 -0700 (Fri, 05 Sep 2008)
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flex/sdk/trunk/webapps/webtier/build.xml
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HI All,
My first Post here. I am new to Flex Hardly 10 days old. I
want to open the flexstore project in flex builder 3 and could not
able to do so.
What I did: file->import->.... got the error msg as
"The folder does not contain a valid Flex Builder Project".
also tried file->import->general->..... same error
msg.
I need your Help guys
I downloaded the sample project from
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/flexstore/srcview/index.html
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SAS
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"shakeb66" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:gknbn8$av9$[email protected]..
> HI All,
> My first Post here. I am new to Flex Hardly 10 days old.
I want to open
> the
> flexstore project in flex builder 3 and could not able
to do so.
> What I did: file->import->.... got the error msg
as "The folder does not
> contain a valid Flex Builder Project".
> also tried file->import->general->..... same
error msg.
> I need your Help guys
> I downloaded the sample project from
>
>
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/flexstore/srcview/index.html
Try creating a new Flex project and dragging the files from
the zip into the
src folder. You may find that you need to rearrange things a
bit, depending
on how they set up the project, but this should get you
started.
HTH;
Amy

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Revision: 11292
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-30 02:28:09 -0700 (Fri, 30 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Removing 'libs' as a library path from the Flex Builder project properties.
Modified Paths:
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