It should be in 0.9.10-SNAPSHOT (or will be when the next Maven nightly build completes). To use this option with Maven, I assume that you can add --watch to the section of your pom.xml where you can specify additional compiler options. I'm not familiar enough with the Maven plugin to tell you exactly where that is.
-- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 2:42 PM romanisi...@yahoo.com.INVALID <romanisi...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > This is a nice feature. Is it part of the new 0.9.9 release ? Or Which > snapshot version ? > > Also just to clarify usage. I use maven so will the usage be as follows > mvn clean watch install ? > How can I use it in a royale maven project ? > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 22:34, Josh Tynjala<joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> > wrote: Hi all, > > I just pushed a commit to royale-compiler that adds a new --watch compiler > option. What this new option does is keep the compiler running after it's > done, watching the source-path folders for any changes to .as and .mxml > files. When changes are detected, it will automatically re-compile your > project. Best of all, it's an incremental re-compile, so it will be > significantly faster. > > For projects targeting JS, all you need to do is refresh your browser after > the re-compile completes. You can even use a tool that does this > automatically, if you prefer. > > After a quick search on Google, I found the "reload" npm package, and I can > confirm that it can automatically reload a Royale app after recompilation. > Here is the command that I used in a terminal at the root of my project > folder: > > npx reload -d bin/js-debug -b > > This starts a local HTTP server in the directory bin/js-debug, and it > launches the app in a browser. > > > https://www.npmjs.com/package/reload#user-content-using-reload-as-a-command-line-application > > The new --watch compiler option works with SWF too. However, I'm not aware > of any automatic reloading tools for this, so you'll just need to close and > relaunch manually. > > Please give it a try, and let me know if you run into any issues. I'd like > to see how well it works with some bigger projects! > > -- > Josh Tynjala > Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> > >
