{"id":25,"date":"2007-05-07T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T22:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-05-07T14:27:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T22:27:23","slug":"started-using-eclipse-for-actionscript-not-leaving-flash-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/started-using-eclipse-for-actionscript-not-leaving-flash-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Started using Eclipse for ActionScript, not leaving Flash yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the last couple of months I&#8217;ve been doing some heavy flash work for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icq.com\" target=\"_blank\">ICQ<\/a> (that instant messaging thing), great guys there.Anyway, part of the project required generating SWF files on a server, compiled using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtasc.org\" target=\"_blank\">MTASC<\/a>, an open source ActionScript compiler. I decided to grab the opportunity and start using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\" target=\"_blank\">Eclipse<\/a> (an open source development platform) for editing ActionScript on my Mac (instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/textwrangler\/\" target=\"_blank\">TextWrangler<\/a>), and compile with MTASC without the help of Flash IDE.It is easily done using the <a href=\"www.potapenko.com\" target=\"_blank\">Flashout<\/a> plugin. a great tutorial found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasz.com\/articles\/installmtasc\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, it works the same on Macs, as Eclipse is platform independent.Well, so far I am a bit disappointed, compiling is faster but using <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/aseclipseplugin\" target=\"_blank\">ASDT<\/a> for editing the AS code is not that good, it is not so up to date with features&#8230; hope a new release is coming soon.In meantime, I still want Flash and TextWrangler available.Speaking of ASDT, can someone please explain why my &#8216;Refactor&#8217; menu is disabled?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last couple of months I&#8217;ve been doing some heavy flash work for ICQ (that instant messaging thing), great guys there.Anyway, part of the project required generating SWF files on a server, compiled using MTASC, an open source ActionScript compiler. I decided to grab&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}