I see what you mean, I guess I am just confused on why it would matter if someone went through the site and manually typed out all the info or if they were able to write a script that could do it automatically. The information is there, why would it matter who/what accesses it?
Also just to clarify, the way I understand it the files would only need to be generated once; the screen scraping would not be something the app did as part of its operation. Thanks, Ben --- In [email protected], "Adam Dorritie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/3/06, ben.clinkinbeard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, Matt. If this is not ok, what would be > > acceptable methods for accomplishing things like code completion in > > third party editors? Obviously, doing this requires knowledge of the > > structure of all AS3 classes and Livedocs seems like the best/only > > 'open' and free to the public source of this information. I really > > don't think any serious developer would consider an editor adequate > > without this functionality. > > I think that you're confusing 2 separate issues. The first is whether > you can configure an editor to recognize (highlight, complete, > whatever) ActionScript code using information obtained from publicly > available documentation. The answer to this, as far as I know, is > absolutely. The second issue, and the one which I believe that Matt > has concerns about, is whether or not you can obtain the data you need > to enable this feature by screen-scraping Adobe documentation. I can > see potential issues with that. Manually enter the AS3 information > into your editor and I would bet that you would be fine. > > Adam > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
