How to access code in other projects?

Question

Hi all,
I ran into an issue in FlexBuilder I'm not sure how to resolve, hopefully someone here can help.  I have several projects in my workspace right now I'll call them project A and B.  I have one project in particular, call that project C, that needs access to code contained in a couple of other projects, A and B.  I don't want to copy all those files from the other projects into this one cause there's a lot of files, it's tedious, and unmaintainable.  I don't want to make all those files into a flex library either cause it's not really necessary.
I tried adding the folders in project A and B into the source path of project C but when I tried to import those files it did not work.  So does anyone know of a way that I can access code from other projects in the same workspace?  If you could provide an example also that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Additional info: The code complete for the import actually shows me the files in the source path are available.  In fact, when I hit F3 it points me to the proper file in the other project.  However, FlexBuilder keeps telling me the type was not found or it isn't a compile time constant.

Answer 1

Michael Borbor wrote:
I never said don't use OOP, Flex SDK is all about classes, and abstraction, but last time I check there wasn't polimorphism, so AS3 it's not yet a purely OO.
No polymorphism? You should check again. Just because overloading is not supported that does not mean that polymorphism can't be applied. Polymorphism does not start or end with overloading, please read up on polymorphism ( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/oop_as3_05.html or find a more generic definition and see that polymorphic principles can be applied in AS 3.0 too ).
No, ActionScript is not purely OOP, but what is? The only language I know of that is considered "a pure OOP language" is Java. Does that make other languages less good? Definitely not. Just because AS 3.0 does not support overloading it does not mean that OOP principles can't be applied and nor does it mean that it's not a valid OOP language.
Michael Borbor wrote:
Instead of learning this architectural stuff If I were new to Flex, first I'll learn what the heck is the Flex SDK, and obviously AS3, then I can move on to design patter, singletons, decorators, PureMVC, and so on.
Well, sice I don't know ehwhoknows and I have no idea how new he is ( he may be new to Flex but that doesn't mean that he is new to programming ), I took "the risk" to add an additional opinion to his post saying that "sure what ntsiii said is totally cool but in the future, you might want to read up on OOP and design patterns because they offer much more than mixing projects in a barbaric manner".
Obviously, if he is new to programming ( a detail that I don't see being mentioned in his post ) then he should stick to the simple things, but does that mean that we can't point out other solutions that may be more complex and harder to understand for a newbie at the moment. At least, he'll now know that there are other solutions out there too. Everything has it's time, but without telling him that "hey, solution A si ok, but solution B would be much better on the long run" then how do you expect him to find out about solution B? By accident?
I wasn't trying to prove anyone wrong, all that I wanted to point out is that there are other solutions out there too that offer much more on the long run. If he can't handle OOP at the moment, no problem, but at least give him the chance to try it out.
@ ATIF FAROOQ: I totally agree that it would be nice if the guys at Adobe would implement overloading and not only, abstract classes would be nice too ( and I mean "real abstract classes" like in Java, not workarounds ).
@ Muzak: Totally agree, I said to use a Library mainly because that's what I use most ( beside simply pasting classes from a project into another; I do this occasionally and sometimes when I'm lazy ). In either case, the final goal is achieved: reusability.
With best regards,
Barna Biro