Flash CS4 refuses to let go

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I have a Flash project  and it has many source files  I have a fairly heavily-used class  call it Jenine  I recently  and  perhaps  callously  relocated Jenine from one namespace to another  I thought we were ready - I thought it was time  The new Jenine was better in every way - she had lost some code bloat  she had decoupled herself from a few vestigial class relationships  and she had finally come home to the namespace that she had always secretly known in her heart was the one she truly belonged to  She was among her own kind   Unfortunately  Flash would have none of that  Perhaps it had formed an attachment  Perhaps it didn t want Jenine to be decoupled  Either way  it clung to the old  perfect version of Jenine in its memory  It refused to move on  It ignored her  function  calls  It tried to forget her new  public interfaces  Instead  every instance of Jenine that it constructed was always a copy of the old version  down to its classpath   var jenineInstance Jenine   new Jenine    trace  getQualifiedClassName jenineInstance       Should print  com newnamespace subspace  Jenine    Prints  com oldnamespace subspace  Jenine    Ah  young love    We fought  I m not proud of some of the things I said or did  In the end  in a towering fit of rage  I deleted all references of Jenine completely  She was utterly  completely erased from the system  My cursor fell upon the  Empty Trash  menu option like the cold lid of a casket   I don t think Flash ever recovered  To this day it still clings to the memory of Jenine  Her old  imperfect definitions still float through my project like abandoned ghosts  Whenever I force Flash to compile  it still lovingly inserts her into my movie  nestling her definition in amongst the other  living classes  like a small shrine  I wonder if they can see her   Flash and I don t really talk anymore  I write my code  it compiles it  There s a new girl in town named Summer who looks almost identical to Jenine  as if someone had just copied her source-code wholesale into a new class  but Flash hasn t shown any interest  Most days it just mopes around and writes bad poetry in my comments when it thinks I m not looking   I hope no one else has had a similar experience  that this is just a singular  painful ripple in the horrifying dark lagoon that is the Flash code-base  Does anyone have any idea how to erase whatever cache the compiler is using

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Try deleting your ASO files   ASO files are cached compiled versions of your class files  Although the IDE is a lot better at letting go of old caches when changes are made  sometimes you have to manually delete them  To delete ASO files  Control Delete ASO Files   This is also the cause of the  I-am-not-seeing-my-changes-so-let-me-add-a-trace-now-everything-works  bug that was introduced in CS3

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Use a grep analog to find the strings oldnamespace and Jenine inside the files in your whole project folder  Then you d know what step to do next

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Flash still has the ASO file  which is the compiled byte code for your classes  On Windows  you can see the ASO files here   C  Documents and Settings username Local Settings Application Data Adobe Flash CS4 en Configuration Classes aso   On a Mac  the directory structure is similar in  Users username Library Application Support      You can remove those files by hand  or in Flash you can select Control- gt Delete ASO files to remove them

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Do you have several swf-files  If your class is imported in one of the swf s  other swf s will also use the same version of the class  One old import with   in one swf will do it  Recompile everything and see if it works

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I have found one related behaviour that may help  sounds like your specific problem runs deeper though    Flash checks whether a source file needs recompiling by looking at timestamps  If its compiled version is older than the source file  it will recompile  But it doesn t check whether the compiled version was generated from the same source file or not   Specifically  if you have your actionscript files under version control  and you Revert a change  the reverted file will usually have an older timestamp  and Flash will ignore it

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Also  to use your new namespaced class you can also do  var jenine com newnamespace subspace Jenine   com newnamespace subspace Jenine

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What if you compile it using another machine  A fresh installed one would be lovely  I hope your machine is not jealous

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