Can a Flex facet support multiple Flex applications?

I have a project that is set up with Java module and a Flex facet. I can get the basic configuration working as I need it to, but I have some cases where I want to build multiple Flex applications (i.e. multiple mx:Application source files where each one results in its own SWF file). It doesn't appear that the Flex facet configuration will allow this in IDEA.

I'm assuming that I could create multiple Flex modules and have each module correspond to one application, but that's going to cause me a bunch of other headaches. What I really need is a single source root with all of my Java and Flex source files in known locations relative to the module root. I can do this in FlexBuilder, but not in IDEA right now.

Is there any way to make this work in a single module, or am I stuck using FlexBuilder to support this kind of configuration?

Thanks,

-Tim

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Right now the answer is no, but could be done relatively easy. Please,
file JIRA request.

Tim Dean wrote:

I have a project that is set up with Java module and a Flex facet. I can get the basic configuration working as I need it to, but I have some cases where I want to build multiple Flex applications (i.e. multiple mx:Application source files where each one results in its own SWF file). It doesn't appe
ar that the Flex facet configuration will allow this in IDEA.

I'm assuming that I could create multiple Flex modules and have each module correspond to one application, but that's going to cause me a bunch of other headaches. What I really need is a single source root with all of my Java and Flex source files in known locations relative to the module root. I c
an do this in FlexBuilder, but not in IDEA right now.

Is there any way to make this work in a single module, or am I stuck using FlexBuilder to support this kind of configuration?

Thanks,

-Tim

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I see that this JIRA report is now marked as fixed, but it has IDEA 9 and a 10xxx build number for the release info. Have there been any announcements about IntelliJ 9 and what it will include? Do I really need to wait for an IDEA 9 to get this simple fix, or is it possible that a new build in the near future will support this feature?

-Tim

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Hello Tim,

I see that this JIRA report is now marked as fixed, but it has IDEA 9
and a 10xxx build number for the release info. Have there been any
announcements about IntelliJ 9 and what it will include? Do I really
need to wait for an IDEA 9 to get this simple fix, or is it possible
that a new build in the near future will support this feature?


This is not in fact a simple fix. It is possible that we'll backport it to
8.1.x, but we can't promise that.

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Has any roadmap been defined for IDEA 9? Are we talking about something that is likely to be a long time in the future?

Without this fix, we may be unable to use IDEA effectively for some of our Flex-based projects. I need to know if we should plan on using FlexBuilder instead of IDEA for this kind of project.

Thanks,

-Tim

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The feature will be available in IDEA 8.1.1 which is released in few weeks.

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