After exporting a flex project, the images are broken

Question

After completing building a flex project in Flash Builder 4.5, the project was exported using the File -> Export Flash Builder Project.

After which some of the images stopped working (get the broken image icon). This has left me clueless and even search on the internet did not give me good answers...

Have you checked to see that the images are being transferred to the export location? — Amy Blankenship, Oct 21 '11 at 11:51
Another question: Are the images embedded in the app or just relative paths? — JeffryHouser, Oct 21 '11 at 12:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '11 at 14:24

I get the same problem time to time. Probably compiler / Flash Builder bug. But to be sure, you might want to check some basic things. First off: check that you have correct image urls. Secondly, ensure you are not using absolute source paths (e.g. C:\workspace\project\src\assets\images\image.png). Instead use relative path (i.e. assets\images\image.png).

If these are correct, check your build directory (default build directory for release builds in FB is bin-release) and see if the images are compiled there correctly. As I said, for some reason my FB does not always compile all the assets correctly, so sometimes I have to move them in manually. That is, you can simply drag and drop them from the source directory to the bin-release directory (although if you are using svn, you should be careful with this as it might copy also the svn metadata).

Other solutions you might want to try:

restart eclipse / FB (maybe it's simply out of memory)
delete the project from your workspace and import it again with no project information
change workspace and import the project there

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '11 at 20:15

I finally found the answer... made all the images bindable and just used the class to tag the images.

for example... instead of

 if (draggedImage.id == "Chris" )
 {
 newImage.source = "assets/Chris.png";
 }

changed it to

 if (draggedImage.id == "Chris" )
 {
 newImage.source = pic3_icon;
 }

After exporting a flex project, the images are broken

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