Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Wheeler
You should be able to get Eclipse and asdt working pretty easily. osflash.org is the place to look for open source tools for Actionscript programming. Ron Andy Herrman wrote: So, I haven't used Eclipse at all for Java. I've been using Netbeans for the last year or so, and before that stuck

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-18 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
ASDT is dead... :/ I would rather buy FDT or search for alternatives if I were on a mac of linux.. as I'm on windows, there's FlashDevelop, of course! On 10/18/06, Ron Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to get Eclipse and asdt working pretty easily. osflash.org is the place to

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-18 Thread Andy Herrman
That's the one I tried, but I couldn't get it to function. For instance, when I went to try and add my files it couldn't see my filesystem for some very strange reason. There were a couple other problems as well, but I don't remember them off the top of my head. So far FlashDevelop seems to be

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-18 Thread Troy Rollins
On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: ASDT is dead... :/ I would rather buy FDT or search for alternatives if I were on a mac of linux.. as I'm on windows, there's FlashDevelop, of course! As far as I can tell, there really is only FDT for Mac users. Everything

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-18 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
That's odd. Ben Jackson uses it exclusively and has it tied to MTASC and Subversion. He never has to open the Flash IDE. Have you seen some of the macros videos out there? I know firsthand that the learning curve can be a little steep, but if you take the time to learn the program in and out,

Re: Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-18 Thread Chris Allen
FDT has been the best thing that I've been able to find for coding AS2 on the Mac. I like Eclipse as I use it for Java development as well. Anyway, auto completion, some minor refactoring features and integration with Ant and version control make it a hell of a tool. It does cost money though

Re: Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-18 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
FDT is great, no doubt. But it's way too, and I mean too expensive :( At least for us poor third-world human-beings, the price in euros turns out to become a fortune on our currency... Just my $ 0,02 cents On 10/18/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FDT has been the best thing that

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Michael Trim
Oh man you're in for a treat. I've been using FlashDevelop for ages as an AS2 editor and wouldn't be without it now, but after following this thread I am trying to setup a project (something I have never done) and compile with MTASC... Got this working fine, retrofitting an old project(about to

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Kurt Dommermuth
Hi, I think this has been pretty much said, but after having recently explored AS editor options I'd like to give my take. First, your needs are going to be based on how you work. I do a lot of scripting but I also mix in some hand animations and other frame based stuff. I'm not

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Jörg Birkhold
hi michael, right-click your file in the project explorer and select always compile greetz joerg Michael Trim schrieb: What do I put in the IncludePackages Array? How do I force compilation of each class by adding it to the commandline? TIA, Michael

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Michael Trim
right-click your file in the project explorer and select always compile Thanks joerg had found that, I'm downloading other examples of FDP's and examining their setup, almost there! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
I was just checking out the build options for a project in FlashDevelop, and it seems you can set it to compile with MTASC and/or inject code - so if that's true, would there be any reason to use FLASC when you're just writing code with FlashDevelop? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Pete Miller
I'm having the same problem and I don't think it was answered. How do I tell FlashDevelop/MTASC what/where my packages are? If my class path is MyDirectory, and I import components.* from MyDirectory/components, how do I add this to the setup? I've tried several combinations, but haven't hit

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Mark Winterhalder
On 10/17/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just checking out the build options for a project in FlashDevelop, and it seems you can set it to compile with MTASC and/or inject code - so if that's true, would there be any reason to use FLASC when you're just writing code with

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
http://osflash.org/flasc You should also check out FLASC, a Flash panel MTASC compiler that is basically an easy to use GUI for MTASC. I often find myself with FlashDevelop and the Flash IDE open when making tests or working on projects with heavy design. I can make a code change in FD, hit

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Troy Rollins
On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: If you're a Mac user you should really check out TextMate. It's by and large the best coding tool out there and until FlashDevelop came out, it was better than any windows text editor. I don't know any coders on the mac who are

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread The Helmsman
I think I've used all alternative editors to write AS files. I don't understand why you call them IDEs, because currently there is only one IDE which is Flash. Now, I found that there are no editors which supports an AS 1.0 as well as AS 2.0 and is free. Here is a list of editors I used

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you are a Java programmer, you will probably find the Eclipse IDE the most comfortable place to work.. You might also be able to make some good suggestions about how to add the Java tools that are available under Eclipse to the Flash tools. IMHO while it may be true that Flash is the only

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Kjel Anderson
I don't know if anyone else is using JEdit to do ActionScript, but it has some nice features. I have been using it for about a year to develop application with MTASC. It is very simple to set up. Kjel Anderson Ron Wheeler wrote: If you are a Java programmer, you will probably find the Eclipse

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Troy Rollins
On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Kjel Anderson wrote: I don't know if anyone else is using JEdit to do ActionScript, but it has some nice features. I have been using it for about a year to develop application with MTASC. It is very simple to set up. The (good) options for OSX are

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Andy Herrman
So, I haven't used Eclipse at all for Java. I've been using Netbeans for the last year or so, and before that stuck with Vim and command line tools. From what I hear, Eclipse/Netbeans is the new Emacs/Vim debate. :) I found a free Eclipse plugin for AS but I couldn't get it to work. I

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
FlashDevelop is by far the best open-source free AS2 IDE atm. On 10/16/06, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I haven't used Eclipse at all for Java. I've been using Netbeans for the last year or so, and before that stuck with Vim and command line tools. From what I hear,

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Andreas R
FlashDevelop is by far the best AS IDE, period. Full stop. I even use it for XML these days heh. And i always have it up, so it winds up being what i do ALL text editing in. If you're a mac dude, i guess eclipse is your way to go. I had a look at jEdit when i was a mac user i thought jEdit was

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Kjel Anderson
Does anyone know if there has been an effort to get this running under mono on Linux? Kjel Andreas R wrote: FlashDevelop is by far the best AS IDE, period. Full stop. I even use it for XML these days heh. And i always have it up, so it winds up being what i do ALL text editing in. If you're

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Kjel Anderson
I had a look at jEdit when i was a mac user i thought jEdit was a knife in the back of usability.. But thats just me :) That's funny. I feel the same way about the Flash IDE. ;) Kjel Andreas R wrote: FlashDevelop is by far the best AS IDE, period. Full stop. I even use it for XML these days

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Merrill, Jason
I just switched to using FlashDevelop on Friday, and just discovered that among many other cool things, it provides code hints for custom classes you write/import. Supercool! I hated having to go back and open the other class and remember what methods are available and what the arguments

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Victor Gaudioso
@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 1:10 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel I just switched to using FlashDevelop on Friday, and just discovered that among many other cool things, it provides code hints for custom classes you write/import. Supercool! I hated

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Andreas R
Oh man you're in for a treat. You've probably seen all this already but: * try typing something like new mx.transitions.Tween. It's a god damn miracle. * Note that the code hinting and autocompletion extends to static methods of classes, interfaces, almost ANY .as doc in the project dir. I'm

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-15 Thread Hans Wichman
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Wichman Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:17 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel Hi Pete, check out the project page for flasc

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-13 Thread Hans Wichman
list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel Why can't you use MTASC? If you're serious about Flash development, you should be using it. I have a Flash application that literally takes 30 seconds to compile in the IDE and less than a second with MTASC. If you don't want

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-13 Thread Pete Miller
the real thing to do is learn how that works. P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Wichman Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:17 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Sven Dens
Hi Andy, Have a look at flashdevelop, http://www.flashdevelop.org. It's a beautiful IDE that handles AS1, AS2 and AS3, is lightweight and flexible, ... it can do the things you ask for + more! Alternatively there's also SE|PY, http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php. It's very good too, but I

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Robert r. Sanders
I'd try FlashDevelop (at least for actionscript 2); you can still do the actual compile w/ the Flash IDE. There are a few, older tools, with actionscript 1 support, but I'm not familiar w/ any of them anymore. There is also a partially working, but discontinued plugin for Eclipse, which can

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Julien V.
Andy, the only solution is to use Eclipse with some flash open source tools such as Flashout, ASDT and MTASC. I was using this combination - as known as AMES (see http://osflash.org/ames) - since my company bought me a FDT license. For my part, Eclipse+FDT is my favorite plateform for flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Sven Dens
Yes, this commercial plugin is FDT by PowerFlasher, http://fdt.powerflasher.com/flashsite/flash.htm It's really nice too, and not at all that expensive (199 Euro's). But if you don't really need Eclipse and just want a solid lightweight (!= Eclipse) editor I'd go for FlashDevelop. Sven On

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert r. Sanders Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:04 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel I'd try FlashDevelop (at least for actionscript 2); you can still do the actual compile w/ the Flash IDE

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Jim Kremens
, October 12, 2006 11:04 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel I'd try FlashDevelop (at least for actionscript 2); you can still do the actual compile w/ the Flash IDE. There are a few, older tools, with actionscript 1 support, but I'm not familiar

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Andy Herrman
To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel I'd try FlashDevelop (at least for actionscript 2); you can still do the actual compile w/ the Flash IDE. There are a few, older tools, with actionscript 1 support, but I'm not familiar w/ any of them

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Why can't you use MTASC? If you're serious about Flash development, you should be using it. I have a Flash application that literally takes 30 seconds to compile in the IDE and less than a second with MTASC. If you don't want to have to write out that long command line compile script (and who

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-12 Thread Pete Miller
| BLITZ Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:57 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel Why can't you use MTASC? If you're serious about Flash development, you should be using it. I have a Flash application that literally takes 30 seconds