Non-Updating Flex

Here's a nasty little gotcha I've found that I wanted to pass along. As you probably know, Flex Builder creates a html-template directory in each new Flex project, which is uses whenever it builds (compiles) the project. Apparently, the way Flex Builder uses this is to compile the .swf first and THEN copy over the contents of the html-template folder. I discovered this because we had somehow gotten a copy of our main.swf file into the html-template directory. As such, none of our changes were showing up in the finished .swf, because they had been overwritten with the old copy from the html-template directory.

Just in case someone else runs into the same thing.