Hi there
I am very new to programming and ive used to make programm in Flash. Its just a little project and i do programming in my freetime as a hobby. My 30 days of using Flash for free are over (since a half year now ;) and i wanted to re-wake this project and do it without Flash using TextMate and the ActionScript Bundle.
I had a look at the Bundle Developer Site and followed the instructions mentioned there. But i still have absolutely NO CLUE what to do. My first intention, just to see how things are working i wanted to make a trace output - which says "Hello World".
What am i doing wrong? Ive tried to use the ActionScript template and i did a script which just says trace ("Hello World"); I did use the "Install MTASC Support Files" and i did a try without...nothing happens.
Can anybody help or does know where i get some information?
Thanks for your help ==================================
Zettt azeitler@zettt.de
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On 12/30/06, Zeitler Andreas zettt@macbay.de wrote:
What am i doing wrong? Ive tried to use the ActionScript template and i did a script which just says trace ("Hello World"); I did use the "Install MTASC Support Files" and i did a try without...nothing happens.
Hi there.
I'm the current mantainer of the ActionScript bundle, so I'll try to answer some of your questions.
* The best place to ask for help regarding the ActionScript bundle is the mailing list. I have a filter for anything with "actionscript" in it, and closely monitor the list (except when I'm on vacation :)
The current workflow for the AS bundle is as follows:
* You create a new project. I'm still tweaking the "Build With MTASC" command to work on single .as files, but right now the preferred way is to use a project. * You "Install MTASC Support Files", and a 'mtasc.yaml' file is created on your project root. * You edit the mtasc.yaml file to suit your project * You hit "Build With MTASC" and hope for the best :)
I have included a sample template (go to File » New From Template » ActionScript » MTASC Sample) that should compile out of the box. Create a new file, save it, hit Command+R and choose "Build With MTASC"
You should get a "Compiling MTASC Classes" dialog, XTrace should open, and if you have the Flash Player installed it will open the resulting SWF file.
If you'd rather use the browser, create a project, install the mtasc.yaml file and change this line:
preview: .
to
preview: index.html
where index.html is a simple HTML that loads the swf file.
Right now, MTASC is called with the -main option. That means it will call the main() method in your initial class to start your application. Let me know if that feels right or not, and I'll look into making it optional.
The bundle includes XTrace, and it is setup to direct all trace calls to the XTrace server. If XTrace is not running, a text field will be created in _root, and the trace message will be added to it. If you want to use a different log system (i.e: LuminicBox) you can change the function that is used for trace in mtasc.yaml adding this line:
trace: com.foo.bar.your_trace_function
Hope it helps you getting started. Feel free to ask for more help. I'm writing the documentation to be included with the bundle, and all questions will be (hopefully) addressed there :)
Oh, and have a happy new year ;)
-- Ale Muñoz http://sofanaranja.com http://bomberstudios.com
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Zeitler Andreas