[TxMt] Suggested workflows AS3: Flash/Textmate

Tue Jun 3 09:47:11 UTC 2008

There are a lot of things to say, maybe is better to see
http://haxe.org/doc/featuresBasicaly it's faster, can detect almost all
errors at compiling time because it's more strict and it has a so called
type inference, it's a single language for several platforms (flash6-9, js,
neko, php)

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Alistair Colling <alistair.colling at fpp.net>
wrote:

>  Thanks for the suggestion, what's the benefits of haxe over fcsh?
> On 2 Jun 2008, at 17:22, Baluta Cristian wrote:
>
> if you've used MTASC, maybe you want to use it's succesor  now, haXe, wich
> can compile to AS3 also. There's already a bundle to integrate it in TM.
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Alistair Colling <alistair.colling at fpp.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Gaby thanks :) this is great. I hadn't thought of putting my designs in
>> symbols and then importing these from the SWF. I was trying to import the
>> top-level of the SWF and lay everything out there but all I need to do is
>> put this inside a movieclip so it appears in the library.
>> Thanks again,
>> Ali
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2 Jun 2008, at 16:21, Gaby Vanhegan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 2 Jun 2008, at 11:14, Alistair Colling wrote:
>>>
>>>  1) Is there a way I can compile in Textmate that can incorporate
>>>> designs made in an FLA? I would like to be able to create interfaces
>>>> in Flash, create the SWF initially from the Flash IDE and then edit
>>>> all of my code in Textmate and compile from Textmate while I am
>>>> working. I'm aware that I can create library items and attach them
>>>> to the stage at runtime but I would like to be able to lay them out
>>>> in Flash as well. I was able to do this in AS2 when using MTASC but
>>>> when I compile using fcsh the content from the original SWF
>>>> (compiled from Flash) is overwritten.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This works perfectly for me:
>>>
>>> package {
>>>
>>>        [Embed(source="file.swf",symbol="MyExportedSymbol")]
>>>        public class MyExportedSymbol extends Sprite {
>>>
>>>                // Create a public var for each named clip in the symbol's
>>> root
>>>
>>>                // Standard constructor
>>>                public function MyExportedSymbol ( ) : void {
>>>                }
>>>
>>>        }
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> Then just build the application in TM.  mxmlc will pull in the
>>> appropriate symbol from the swf then any time you create a
>>> MyExportedSymbol object with:
>>>
>>> var ms:MyExportedSymbol = new MyExportedSymbol();
>>>
>>> If creates it with the asset from the .swf file you specified.  The
>>> gotcha will be that if you have a couple of clips in that symbol's
>>> root timeline you need to create public variables to hold them in the
>>> class definition.  For example if you have two clips dropped into it
>>> named ClipA and ClipB, you will need to have:
>>>
>>>        public var ClipA:Sprite;
>>>        public var ClipB:Sprite;
>>>
>>> As public variables of the class.
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> G.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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