Comments on: Flash CS3 ActionScript Editor Improvements

By: Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:50:04 +0000

I don’t see a setting for ignoring empty lines in the autoformat preferences. I agree that it would be nice to toggle between both methods depending on the need. Too bad.

By: nuno mira

nuno mira — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:26:09 +0000

Preserving empty lines only comes handy when you do want to preserve them.
When I copy-paste some code from FlashKit the code gets to the AS Editor all messed up (with empty lines all over the place), and I have to remove the lines manually, which, for larger chunks of code, is a big waste of time.

I searched but couldn’t find anything on this. Is there a preference to change this behavior?

By: Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:10:28 +0000

I’m not comparing ActionScript editors here- I’m making the statement that Adobe has made some nice improvements with the internal editor. I agree that when looking at the ‘big picture’, code-collapse is nothing… but again, that wasn’t my point.

I’ve heard FDT is pretty nice but have never used it. What does it have over SE|PY or FlashDevelop???

By: Gaspy

Gaspy — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:42:40 +0000

I’m quite disappointed actually with the AS editor. Code collapsing is not enough really when you’re working with classes.

Have a look at FDT for Eclipse, after you use it for a week you can’t come back :-)