Embeding symbols from a swf created with mxmlc

Question

Hello everyone,
I am trying to bundle my resources in seperate swf files then use them in another flex project. I create this bundles from a wizard i wrote in AIR. AIR app calls mxmlc to compile bundle.as and i dynamicaly load bundle.swf. I can access resources from this bundled swf using ApplicationDomain.getDefinition(). No problem there
However i also want to use my wizard to edit prexisting bundles. Problem is i cannot embed resource from original bundle to new bundle. I mainly use Sprite and ByteArray assets in bundles.
To simplfy problem i prepared following test. Created a bundle application to create bundle swf in flex. The project has 4 files: 2 .as files, 1 .png file, 1 .swf file( from FLA which has a symbol linked "Fill" )
// Bundle.as
package
          import flash.display.*;
          public class Bundle extends Sprite
                    public function Bundle()
                              var fla:DisplayObject = new Fla();
                              addChild(fla);
                              var image:DisplayObject = new Image();
                              addChild(image);
// Image.as
package
          import flash.display.Bitmap;
          [Embed(source='plus.png')]
          public class Image extends Bitmap
// Fla.as
package
          import flash.display.Sprite;
          [Embed(source='fla.swf', symbol="Fill")]
          public class Fla extends Sprite
                    public function Fla()
Project above compiles without problem and i can see both assets on screen.
Then i create a second project which will use swf created from project above.
package
          import flash.display.*;
          public class Application extends Sprite
                    [Embed(source='Bundle.swf', symbol='Fla')]    /// Flex cannot embed this
                    private var flaClass:Class;
                    [Embed(source='Bundle.swf', symbol='Image')]  /// But it can embed this
                    private var imageClass:Class;
                    public function Application()
                              var fla:DisplayObject = new flaClass();
                              addChild(fla);
                              var image:DisplayObject = new imageClass();
                              addChild(image);
The second project can only see Bitmap  asset as symbol. But could not find Sprite asset.
We depend heavily on vector graphics from Flash, and byte array assets embeded with
[Embed(source='x.ba', mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
I could write byte array assets into a temp dir and embed them again but i cannot do it with Sprites. How can i solve this problem.

Answer 1

Interesting problem. What happens if you encapsulate the embed in the first Bundle?
Something like this:
package
          import flash.display.Sprite;
          public class Fla extends Sprite
                   [Embed(source='fla.swf', symbol="Fill")]
                   private var flaClass:Class;
                    public function Fla()
                        var flaAsset:DisplayObject = new flaClass();
                        addChild(flaAsset);
*edit*
Fixed typo in code.
Message was edited by: drkstr_1