Category: Flash/Actionscript


Tuesday 2010/11/16
2:33 PM

Categories:

FDT, Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev

Eclipse Filename Search Filter

Because I keep forgetting this:

In Eclipse, Shift-Command-R brings up a dialog that can be used to find files by name.


Tuesday 2010/11/09
11:49 AM

Categories:

FDT, Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev

Flash Debug Logging

Flash debug output can be captured to a log file, as described by Mark Walters here: http://yourpalmark.com/2005/07/01/trace-from-the-browser-using-standard-trace/. On OS X You can then display that output in Console.app. I've set up two aliases in my bash profile to do so:

CODE:
  1. alias trace=’open -a /Volumes/[HARD DRIVE NAME]/Applications/Utilities/Console.app/ /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/Logs/flashlog.txt
  2.  
  3. alias cleartrace=’cat /dev/null> /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/Logs/flashlog.txt

So whenever I want to watch the trace output from a site I can just open Terminal.app and type trace to open the log file, and cleartrace to delete the contents of the file.


Thursday 2010/03/25
11:52 AM

Categories:

Flash/Actionscript, Technology's Betrayal, Web Dev

Frustration

frustration.jpg

Found this today while dusting off an FLA from a very old project (written by someone else, I should add).


Tuesday 2010/03/02
12:58 PM

Categories:

FDT, Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev

FDT 3.5

Finally installed FDT 3.5 yesterday. I don't write Flex Apps, so the MXML support is nice to see but doesn't really affect me. I noticed a lot more templates, and today I was pleased to see that the quick fix to rename a class also automatically renames the constructor if it is present. It always annoyed me that this wasn't the default behavior in FDT 3.2.

I also recommend the three-part online training course on FDT by Alan Klement. More details here. Alan's blog is also a great resource for FDT tips and also general Flash development topics.


Thursday 2009/08/06
10:24 AM

Categories:

FDT, Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev

Project Names for Ant Build Files

Just posted this over at the DS Tech Blog: Project Names for Ant Build Files. Completely obvious, yet somehow it's taken me a year to realize this. It's not usually an issue when you only have one project open, but today I was staring at three build files in the Ant panel, all named "project". So, just another small step towards better workflow.