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Actionscript Editor
Hi!

Is there some application that can edit actionscript in exported swf files, and if there is, could any gave me the link????

Thanks,
Cash

P.S.
Problem is that I was found one cool xml dynamic menu in "movies" section, but, it was made for web menu.
I can't use it in flash because when i put in xml link like javascript:someFunctionInFlash(), action opens my web browser with link "javascript:someFunctionInFlash()".

And, ofcourse, there is no fla to download main "flashwebmenu.swf", but only swf and fla that calls main swf.

Swf Actionscript Editor
Hi!

Is there some application that can edit actionscript in exported swf files, and if there is, could any gave me the link????

Thanks,
Cash

P.S.
Problem is that I was found one cool xml dynamic menu in "movies" section, but, it was made for web menu.
I can't use it in flash because when i put in xml link like javascript:someFunctionInFlash(), action opens my web browser with link "javascript:someFunctionInFlash()".

And, ofcourse, there is no fla to download main "flashwebmenu.swf", but only swf and fla that calls main swf.

__________________
Cash

SE|PY ActionScript Editor
i did a search on FK, and i was a little surprised to find noone has mentioned anything about this new(ish) FREE actionscript editor by Sephiroth di Crugnola Alessandro, available here.
Authors comments
SE|PY is a FREE ActionScript editor for Macromedia Flash files. If you're currently not satisfied with the Flash IDE editor or you're already using Scite|Flash (also a great editor!) you maybe interested in this editor

i stumbled across a few days ago, and i must say i am very impressed. I know a lot of people use Scite|Flash, but for me Scite|Flash just didnt cut it feature wise, in fact i didnt think it was good at all. Up until now ive been scripting in the IDE, and everyone knows how much of a pain it is navigating more than 500 lines of code in that piece of junk.

i also own ultraEdit for php, but this little app beats UE hands-down in the AS department.

i advise you own this if you want to be taken seriously.

Looking For An Actionscript Editor (for Fla's)
From: http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=610163

Quote:

Originally posted by Ironclaw
Well, is there a way to make an imported swf's _root to work (using loadMovie).

I import a swf into a MC called Movie. But as you all know, the _root of that swf is no longer in itself, it's now in the swf which imported the swf.

Is this fixable? I tried using _root = Movie();... but I knew it wouldn't work.

I know that to make it work, I shouldn't use _root in the imported swf... but it's too late for that now.

Just curious if someone knows if there is a work around for this.

The _lockroot didnt do its job. It worked the same way as loadMovieNum(url,level).

If I loadMovie the swf, then almost nothing works. If I use loadMovieNum(url,level), some things works. If I use the _rootlock, some things work also. But none of them want to play the music in the menu of the game. It will only play when playing the swf when it's not imported. So _lockroot isn't perfect.

Therefore:

Does anyone know of a nifty actionscript editor?. I don't mean a swf decompiler. I need a program that can open up ALL the AS in a fla and search for _root and replace with something else.

The current Action editor in Flash can only search in the current opened script holder. Need one that can search them all.

But in the future I will try not to use _root incase I would need to import the swf.

Actionscript Editor . Is This Possible ?
hi .....

I ask Can I edit the code inside SWF File Without source FLA file ?

I have one swf file and i want edit the Actionscript . I do not want to extract something . i just want edit Small Line only . Is there is a programme can edit swf file and allowd to you to edit the Actionscript ?

and if not So Why you think steel no programme can do that .

Dont tell me about SWF Decompiler Softwares . Because there is no one from them can edit the Actionscript .

Know An ActionScript Editor For Mac
Hey does anyone know an actionScript editor for Tiger OSX? I tried installing SEPY, but it simply will not install. So, I was looking to see if you guys know of a good one.

Actionscript 3.0 Editor
i am trying to get hold of it ... i have a slower system that i am running flash 8 ... and if i get this i will be able to build as3 stuff using flash 8 on the slower system ... please leme know ?

Actionscript Editor Lag?
I don't know if it's with flash8 but my actionscript editor is exhibiting some strange lag when I type. This only seems to happen when I'm typing in AS on a frame. Not when I'm typing AS in an *.as file. Anyone else run into this problem?

ActionScript 3 Editor
hey guys,
I was wondering if there is a good editor I could use for scripting in actionscript 3. I dont want to use flash 9 alpha or flex builder 2. Are there any other ones just for actionscript that yall can recommend?

Actionscript Editor
this is a really handy tool. its very impressive. 100% open source.

http://fdorg.meychi.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=6

SE|PY Actionscript Editor On OS/X
Heh guys, realise this isn't technically a flash post but after the last two Fuse tutorials and upon Lee's recommendation of SEPY actionscript editor, I thought i'd give it a whirl.
Downloaded the package, installed and attempted to launch.. no dice.
I'm running OS/X 10.3.9 and all I get is a bouncing icon in the dock that then dissepears with no errors.
Was wondering if anyone else has managed to get it running on OS/X as this seems to be a common problem according to their forum.
If not, does anyone use a third-party editor on mac, and have any recommendations?

UML Diagram Editor For ActionScript?
I am starting to move first steps into UML and it is starting to become the only option not to get lost into code....

Do you know some good diagram editor easily usable for ActionScript on PC?

Thank you...
Pippo

Actionscript Editor Very Slow
Flash Pro 8

I have a Flash movie I am working on. It is pretty big (fla is about 90Mb) it's for a presentation.

Flash itself runs fine, I can do everything without a problem until I come to open the actionscript editor, that's when it all slows down.

There isnt much script, only a few lines, but even if I edit one value I then get the egg timer for about 4 seconds before the change appears in the editor.

If I restart Flash it is all fine again so long as I dont open the script editor, so it seems to be related to that.

Whats Flash trying to do thats so difficult here?

Thanks

[CS3] Resize The Actionscript Editor
Hello,

I've been writing long blocks of actionscript and as a result the actionscript editor has resized itself larger than my screen area. In fact, it's so big I can no longer grab the resize handle on the bottom right. So far it hasn't become a problem but it's getting dangerously close to forcing my actionscript off the screen to where I can't see it. Does anyone know how to reset the size of the editor? Thanks. I'm running OSX.

Actionscript 3 External Editor
I'm getting fla files that are predesigned with all the content I need and I have to make them work, at the moment I'm writing the code in the external editor and then going in to flash and changing the fla's document class to my Main.as file.
The problems with this is that if I want to change text on the flas stage I have to use someTextField.text = "blah blah" and ofcourse flashdevelop wont compile then because someTextField hasnt been declared. If i declare it then an error shows saying that its already been declared in the same namespace.

Is there an easier way to have a prebuild fla file and code externally?

Cheers

ActionScript Editor As FlashDevelop Or Anyone.
Hi all, i'm now moving to Mac and i'd like know if exist some good actionscript editor for mac, as FlashDevelop or Sepy on PC.

Thanks.

Seeking An ActionScript Editor
I have to use many custom classes for a project, each class includes lots of elements(methods,properties) and I generally forget their names when coding.
Is there any editor which I can enumarate the elements of my classes after pressing "." like Flash's built in classes?
thanks...

Using External Actionscript Editor
Does anyone have any experience using external actionscript editors? I've given a brief look at SE|PY, but not sure why it's any better than the native editor in Flash.

Better Actionscript/code Editor?
Hey I was just wondering if there is a code program/editor for actionscript where you can select/highlight a section of code and then be able to use the search/replace function to find a word in that piece of code you've just highlighted, instead of going through the whole document.

Thanks in advance!

Actionscript Text Editor
I'm about to create a simple text editor in Flex that needs to provide controls for italics, bold, links, and color. Are there any free Actionscript code snippets out there to take care of pieces of this project? It should act on a TextField.

I think the following will need to be accomplished:
- maintenance of controls which apply the above actions to selected text, or starts to apply these controls if nothing is selected
- a redundancy check that prevents nested italics, bold, color, or link tags (this is the part I really don't want to do)
- system that can remove the above styles from selected text

This system won't be very complicated and it shouldn't be a big deal - but if you know where I can find some of these things already done then I would appreciate it.

NOTE: I really don't want an entire option bar like the one in these forums...I want to make the system just for the named controls.

Thanks.

External ActionScript Editor
Hi,

Just a simple question here: Why should someone use external ActionScript Editor (like SE|PY ActionScript Editor) rather than use the one in Flash Professional ?

Thanks for your input on that !

--
M.
www.martinc.biz

Sepy Actionscript Editor
hey, I've been recommended this tool for any external actionscripting of flash.

I downloaded it, but just can't figure out how to setup the preference there, you know the specific font color, boldness to different types of text in actionscript. I looked at the preference panel, and saw those settings, but just don't know why they are just not working.

anyone know how to get that done?

Exterior ActionScript Editor
Is there, and if so, can anyone recommend an exterior AS editor with codehinting?

/Michael

Favorite ActionScript Editor
When it comes to coding I've used Crimson Text Editor for years as it let me write AS, HTML, CSS, PHP and C# files. The last release was in 2004 and sometime in the past year the syntax section of the site went down. Crimson worked with different programming languages via a couple of external files. Each language had two of these files which defined its syntax. As it stands now I can't find any ActionScript 3 syntax files so I'm left with either making my own or finding another editor.

I thought it would be fun to see what everyone else likes using. If anyone uses an editor that's not in the list then make a new post here and I'll add it to the poll. Please note that I will remove any non-contributive posts to this thread to keep it concise. I'm going to leave this poll open indefinately but remember you can only vote once.

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."

Can't Type Actionscript In My Editor
I'm a programmer that has to learn flash and the going is rough to say the least. For whatever reason, I can copy code into my editor, but I can't type code directly into it. It just ignores my keystrokes. So I open up a new document, click on key frame number one, then bring up the actionscript code window. I simply can not type anything into the editor. I'm beginning to think I have a busted version of Flash. Anybody have a clue? Thanks in advance.

Buggy Text In Actionscript Editor
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Text on my Mac appears as above...inside the actionscript editor. Flash 5 was fine. I've re-installed rebooted thrown out pereferences , re-re-installed without extentions..... At work it's fine. I can type in the editor with out a problem. I can't see the text on the left hand side. Is this an apple problem? A system bug? I've looked into the text preferences and still nothing.

Thank you all,
BW

Advanced Customisation Of The ActionScript Editor
Is it possible to customise the ActionScript editor's syntax colouring so that I can specify a colour for a specific words such as 'myNewCode'? I'd like to be able to do this as I'm working on a file developed by another developer and I need to be able to quickly find my changes to the original code.

Many thanks

NB. Please could any replies only answer this specific question and not suggest alternative methods as I am aware that there are other ways to find my new code.

Uml Editor With Actionscript Code Generation
hi,

anyone knows of a uml editor with actionscript code generation ?

Parse Actionscript In Text Editor
Hello. i am compiling several ActionScript's in Open Office, and would like to keep the color coding i see inside Flash, without having to do it all by hand. this probably means that i must find a way to make it parse all the ActionScript code that it sees. anyone has a clue on how to do this?

alternatively, i could get another text editor to acomplish this. any advices on that?

thanks for any feed-back

Edited: 08/10/2007 at 05:23:06 AM by bytemetoo

Lost Actionscript Editor Formatting
hi folks,

for a couple of days now i am facing a challenge that is a rather inconvenient one. I do not get any actionscript-proposals any more and the text does appear only in black which is quite nerving since errors are lots harder to find.

look:

these are my settings.
does anybody have a hint for me, please?

regards

Actionscript Editor Line Break
Hi everyone,

This problem has plagued me, and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere...

I have a string that I would like to break into multiple lines in the Actionscript window, but I get compile errors after I do. There is a carriage return symbol you can insert after the line of text to prevent this problem, but I can't remember how. Can anyone hook me up?

thanks!!!

SLOOOW ActionScript Editor MX Pro 2004
Is anyone else experiencing the Actionscript editor (both for internal to the .fla and external clasess) is slow? Selecting text takes a while, an in general things are really doggy? Is there anyway to fix this? im running 3 ghz with 1.2 gig ram. this is the only program that does this and i feel like im running flash on a mac 0S9 machine.

External ActionScript 2.0 Editor SEPY
The project is still in development, but it looks very hopeful and good.

Feature addeds:
Code folding (collapsing/expand)
Code highlighting
Add/Remove markers
Auto Completion for default flash functions
Auto Completion with the user added functions (in current document only)
Auto identation using '{' and '}' chars
Full Screen mode
View documents in tab mode
Zoom
Floating panel with all inserted functions for all active documents (switch do function line when selecting an item)
Shell execute program (execute external program passing arguments)
Added Flush Support (Flush, compile, test movie, view output)
Import feature for merging actionscript files
Snippets panel code library (fixed)

Feature requests:
Edit and Save Keyboard Shortcuts
Code hints
Export feature for exporting actionscript files to a fla file
When the user write object. , hints only the events (and properties,...) of that object...and not also that of others objects
Opportunity to import .as and .txt files directly as a snippet, for create fastely own "snippets library"
Auto creation of backup opened files
Auto Format/Code Beautifier
Automatic detection of change in a document

Currently Working:
Fixing multiple sash splitters ( currently disabled for UI rendering problems )
Creating dictionary
Rewriteing of the functions panel window, regexp to intercapt also as 2.0 classes..
Integration with ClassBrowser

Information:
http://www.sephiroth.it/phpwiki/index.php/SEPY

Screenshots:
http://www.sephiroth.it/phpwiki/images/sepy_1.gif
http://www.sephiroth.it/phpwiki/images/sepy_2.gif
http://www.sephiroth.it/phpwiki/images/sepy_3.gif
http://www.sephiroth.it/phpwiki/images/sepy_4.gif

Download:
http://www.sephiroth.it/python/SEPY%20Installer.exe

Project Host:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sepy

Font In The ActionScript Editor At GotoAndLearn
What is the font Lee is using in the ActionScript editor, for example in this video: http://www.gotoandlearn.com/player.php?id=64 ?

I don't know if it is a default font on OSX since I'm using Windows. The font is clearly a monospaced one, and very good looking. I found some similar ones, but not the exact match (for example "i" wasn't matching).

Actionscript Pannel Or External Text Editor?
I am curious: do you use Actionscript panel in Flash, or you make your script externaly in some other txt editor? Which one you prefer?

Is this posted before?
'coz if it was not , then i think MM should expand actionscript panel. Now that they bought Allaire, thay can learn much from Homesite. But, my all time favourite is Edit +.
You can virtualy make syntaxes for everything, i made one for this board type.

Some quality color coding for us all.

Word Wrap In The Actionscript Text Editor
Might have gotten the term wrong: It's the feature where one really long line of AS text "wraps" around to the next line(s). I forgot where I activate it in Flash 8 (Windows XP). Help?

Splitting A Line Of Code In The Actionscript Editor
How do I split a line of code in the actionscript editor? I have a variable which contains text. In the editor, I would like to split the text into several lines of codes.
Thank you in advance for your help!!

ActionScript File Editor Vs Actions Panel
Is anyone else just supremely annoyed they did this this way? By this I mean having the editing of an actionscript file take up the work area and ghost out the actionscript editor. If you're working back and forth between fla and as, you're jumping back and forth between two separate windows that are potentially the same thing. With one monitor, this is a pain in the arse too because you have to keep ditching and reviving the actionscript panel whenever you switch.... and yet, its the SAME thing as the actionscript editor in the workspace :mad:

luckily the actionscript editor allows export. So, as an alternative, create an simple shape movieclip in your library (no linkage) and write scripts there to export out .as files with. Keep an instance on the screen handy in areas you are programming in so you can double click it to access your scripts. Just be sure you delete all instances before testing or publishing.

Breaking Actionscript Code Into Two Or More Lines In The Editor
How do I break an actionscript statement onto more than one line? and is there any limit to the number of lines I can break it onto?
It's for a really large string and I don't want to scroll in my editor.

Cheers,
Daf

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Flash 8 Editor Window No Longer Prints ActionScript ?
When I issue the print command from a ActionScript editor window on my Mac (latest Tiger) it lets me select a printer but nothing happens. Neither does print preview work (no blank page, just nothing happens).

Printing from other apps works fine.

Even if I do "New / Flash" and type gibberish into an empty ActionScript window it will not print.

I have checked log files on the Mac to no avail.

Since "Save As..." does not allow me to save as text, I am forced to copy and paste actionscript into another app and print from there...!

Exhaustive search of Adobe and other web resources produces nothing.

Was printing from Actionscript editor window EVER working??

Does it work for YOU?

Thanks for any tips or commiseration. I know I could switch to MTASC or eclipse or whatever but this is a legacy project.

Russ Welti
Seattle

Flash MX2004 And 8 Actionscript Editor Special Keyboard Shortcuts For Commenting
Is there any special keyboard shortcuts for easy commenting in actionscript editor?

I think I have used one accidentally, I had some script selected, randomly hit the keyboard and each line had // in the beginning.

I did not see anything about it in keyboard prefs...

Recommended Framerate?
Looking at the Flash Sites of the day, I've noticed one big similarity among most of them: they seem to have graphics that move incredibly fast, yet very smoothly. Even http://www.2advanced.com moves relatively smoothly on my machine, which has a sucky video card.

What's the max framerate you guys would recommend?

Not Recommended...Book
Do not get:

Flash 5 ActionScript Studio from Friends of Ed

Seriously...It is WAY flawed. Which I can handle because they've put up plenty of errata, etc. However I ran into the same problem everyone has had with the Chapter 3 menu problem (they neglected to include information on THREE functions with annotation and explainations for each)

What insensed me was when I went to the website to get the new code it wasn't there. No big deal, there are forums! I went to the forums and did a search on the problem and found out that it was known issue. Okay, great... Then...

The author of the book even responded! Great! However he basically said, tough ****. I'm working on another book now and I'm not going to investigate this until my new book is published so you'll just have to wait a few months.

Now, I'm not some vengeful person or anything, but I paid 50 bucks for a book that doesn't even have a CD-ROM with the code and has a TON of grammatical / typo errors? NOW THIS?

If that's the support from Friends of Ed I think I'll be having very little to do with them in the future...

Recommended Books?
I'm using Flash MX 2004 and I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for good books to learn how to do some of the less basic things with Flash. Though I'm pretty new I learned some basic stuff back in the day (on v5 I think) and have a good handle on how to do easy stuff like tweening, buttons, timeline control and that kind of stuff, but at the same time I'm a little daunted by the programming-heavy Actionscript books out there (I usually have a good amount of faith in the O'Reilly books but they seem to all be actionscript oriented).

Also, a lot of books seem to focus on using Flash as an animation tool, whereas I'm more interested in using it to build websites/interfaces. Along a different vein, a lot of books also talk about how to do pretty specific things, giving you code snippets you can use, without taking a more generalized and extensible approach or talking about exactly *how* it works. Lastly, a lot of books seem to be left in the wake of the MX 2004 upgrade and are no longer as applicable because of software changes.

Here are some of the topics I'm most interested in:
* Graphical preloaders w/ progress bar
* Scrollbars -- not just one that scrolls a dynamic text box, but something that you can drag smoothly, possibly with physics applied (www.motiongerm.com has a good example of what I have I mind)
* Advanced masking
* Seemless looping animations (or is this more of an AfterEffects topic?)
* Optimization
* Putting everything together
* Learning techniques, not procedures
* Doing like they do at 2advanced.com (oh wait, that just takes insane talent)

After making that list I realize that a lot of those things very well are actionscript-heavy. So with that in mind, any good actionscript books I can get that could ease a beginner in while teaching how to do practicable things? I've considered getting one of the Hands On Training books from Lynda.com -- can anyone verify whether this is a good choice?

Oi, sorry for such a long post. If anyone has solid recommendations for a book or two that you think I'll be able to use, I'd love to hear it! Thanks for your time. =)

Recommended Actionscript Editor For OsX?

I just started using sepy on xp, but is there something similar for osx? I see that there's an alpha version of sepy for mac, but was wondering if there was something that was already established with proven stability.after trying sepy, I don't want to go back to flash's internal editor anymore..

I just started using sepy on xp, but is there something similar for osx? I see that there's an alpha version of sepy for mac, but was wondering if there was something that was already established with proven stability.

after trying sepy, I don't want to go back to flash's internal editor anymore..