Flex - Modify your default build template

Modifying your default build template is quite simple. There is a template file that is used when building your project. It should reside in the html-template directory at the root of your project in Flex Builder. In Flex Builder 3, the template is named “index.template.html”.

Let’s say you want to modify default parameters in the flash object (one I use is wmode=”transparent” for flex widgets). You would add this to the AC_FL_RunContent() function call (around line 80) and to the noscript block (around line 101). 95% of people hitting the page will hit the AC_FL_RunContent() call so here’s an example of how to modify that:

Original:

AC_FL_RunContent(
"src", "${swf}",
"width", "${width}",
"height", "${height}",
"align", "middle",
"id", "${application}",
"quality", "high",
"bgcolor", "${bgcolor}",
"name", "${application}",
"allowScriptAccess","sameDomain",
"type", "application/x-shockwave-flash",
"pluginspage", "http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer",
);

Modified:

AC_FL_RunContent(
"src", "${swf}",
"width", "${width}",
"height", "${height}",
"align", "middle",
"id", "${application}",
"quality", "high",
"bgcolor", "${bgcolor}",
"name", "${application}",
"allowScriptAccess","sameDomain",
"type", "application/x-shockwave-flash",
"pluginspage", "http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer",
"wmode", "transparent"
);