Hi There,

I've got this excessively large fla (65MB) that uses quite a few external ActionScript classes, and takes ages to publish.

I noticed that lots of my changes to these files weren't being picked up when I republished my fla, it took me ages to work out that it wasn't anything to do with different file versions or incorrect paths, but actually something to do with the Flash IDE not picking up the updated files upon compilation.

Restarting the Flash IDE each time would work, but obviously this isn't ideal, has anyone else come across this and found a solution?

I've had similar - but it was where I had a few FLAs loading each other and they all used the same external class files - I had to make sure I compiled a parent FLA before I would see the changes in a child FLA when I made changes in a class file. Perhaps not quite your situation?

No, unfortunately not.

I'm only using one FLA here.

Make sure all code/fla is stored local and not over a network, especially if your on a mac network. When you publish use the delete ASO files. Close browser between live tests and turn cache off in browser.

For AS3 and loaded movies research AppplicationDomains as this specifies which code scope a class draws its functionality from (senocular defines the three poss u can use also see my recent threads).