Sublime Text Build for After Effects

Any Sublime text experts out there... ? Made a build system to send current file to be executed in AFX...
I did try it with the -s and feeding a  line of code and it works. So when I switch to sending the current file....
It switches over to AFX but does nothing... can't figure it out. I am aware of the build system from AEtuts but I
am trying to figure stuff out and learn as I go along.... (Not an expert in Sublime/Python/cmd line)
//Contents of my build file...
    "cmd": ["afterfx", "-r", "\"$file\""]
//Which sends (I think) to the command line.
Running afterfx -r "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5.5\Support Files\Scripts\ScriptUI Panels\AED_CornerCutters\AED_AdjustmentLayer.jsx"
After Effects is called but doesn't read the jsx....
Any ideas?

Hi Sebastian -
I am not using a .bat file or anything  - just sending the script from Sublime to Afx via cmd.exe.
So it's just the bare build file... to run the script in AFX
Running afterfx -r C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5.5\Support Files\Scripts\tester.jsx
All I need.
Sometimes I use utility functions to switch between ESTK stuff and AFX - the snippet below switches between alert type boxes
in AFX or silent ESTK logging depending on a estkLogging variable.
function logger(str,des){
                                                  //logs to an alertbox or does a writeln in the ESTK
                                                  des = des||""; //optional 2 parameters or one.
                                                  if (logging==true){//enable logging.
                                                                      if(estkLogging==true){          $.writeln(str + "   :   "+des);          $.writeln("-------------------------------");}
                                                                      else{feedback(str + "   :   "+des) ;}
                                                  }  //if
                                        }//close logger funct.
Also - native AFX feedback in the info panel...
write("This text appears in Info panel ");
writeln("This text appears on f irst line");
writeln("This text appears on second line");

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