We use Eclipse/FDT and we also use Ant scripts to build and run our flash projects, and an annoyance I haven’t been able to fix in the past year was the ability to know , within an Ant script, the Eclipse Project name from which a Ant script is launched.
After some time spent reading every single Ant tag on this earth I saw the “xmlproperty” tag which answered my prayers!
here is how I get the project name from the .project file
Eclipse – Get project name within Ant script
We use Eclipse/FDT and we also use Ant scripts to build and run our flash projects, and an annoyance I haven’t been able to fix in the past year was the ability to know , within an Ant script, the Eclipse Project name from which a Ant script is launched.
After some time spent reading every single Ant tag on this earth I saw the “xmlproperty” tag which answered my prayers!
here is how I get the project name from the .project file
<xmlproperty file="../.project"/> <fdt.startDebugger projectname="${projectDescription.name}" savelocation="bin"/>xmlproperty loads an XML file and makes its elements accessible as variables in your Ant script.