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 IDE for Flash
animation, Eclipse is the best IDE for developing Actionscript applications.
Ron
The Helmsman wrote:
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 according in order as I've
used them:
Scite - absolutely great one to write AS 1.0, it's free and don't use a lot of
CPU resources even if you open a lot of files.
FlashDevelop - for most of people it's a favorite choice, but it lacks a lot of
futures opposite to other ones which are older. It's a freeware and great to
write AS 2.0 only.
PrimalScript - a great one for AS 1.0 and AS 2.0, but it lacks some of features
that FDT have and it's commercial not free.
FDT - must be the choice for all who write a code using AS 2.0, in any other
cases - don't use it! It is commercial and quite expensive. As far as I know
there is no AS 3.0 support and it is quite difficult to set it up for the very
first time for a newbie. The number of features it has for AS 2.0 is amazing!
Sepy - can hold AS 2.0 and AS 1.0, and both of them works great! I use the last
experimental version and it's really stable on my PC. Due to this time there is
lack of updates and it seems that the developers in some kind of an idle :)
Once they made a new version each week. Personally I prefer to use this editor
because it is located in the middle regarding the features and have a great
support of both versions of AS, it's free and because I have a lot of old
projects in both versions I prefer to work with it.
Igor Vasiliev
Atidim 2, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Herrman
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:46 PM
To: Flashcoders
Subject: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel
Forgive me if this has already been asked, but I didn't see anything
in the archives.
I'm new to Flash development and am working on both server and client
side code (FMS 2.0 and Flash 7+). As someone who's used to doing Java
development using Netbeans I find the Flash IDE very lacking for
client side development, and there doesn't seem to be any IDE for FMS.
Does anyone on this list know of a good alternative IDE for Flash?
I've found a lot of references to using Eclipse but I haven't been
able to get the plugin to work correctly.
I'm specifically looking for something that can handle both
Actionscript 1 and 2 and can still use the Flash 8 devel environment
for the actual builds (I can't use MTASC). Unfortunately it will also
have to be free, as I don't think I'll be able to get the company to
buy an IDE for me to use. :(
Is there anything out there I can use, or am I out of luck? Right now
I'm just using Vim for editing the files themselves and switching to
Flash 8 for building, but the lack of any kind of project management
is getting annoying.
Thanks!
-Andy
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