I Love SciTE:ASCS for Actionscript 2.0!
I’ve finally decided to buckle down and start coding everything in AS 2.0 classes. I’d always used SciTE:Flash, and I upgraded to SciTE:ASCS because of its Actionscript 2.0 support. I must say, it’s wonderful. Once you get going with building out your classes, it really saves your arms from pain and your brain from strain as it has great code completion for both built-in commands and your own custom methods. It even reads referenced and imported classes in packages and completes code for those.
One of the greatest bits is the tooltips that appear for your custom API as you build. (What’s the technical term for that??) When you call a method within a class it gives you a nice popup that shows the parameters and their respective types. A great help for someone who is using your class and isn’t familiar with the inner-workings.
Anyway, I’ve not seen such great code completion and hinting in any other text editor. I use it on my PC, and I got it (sort of) working on my X11 version of SciTE. Of course, it’s got other niceties, like code-folding and syntax-highlighting. It lacks a good class explorer, though.
I know there are other editors out there, like FlashDevelop and SEPY… although I’ve never gotten them to give me the inter-class code-hinting and completion like SciTE does. Perhaps I’m missing a setting somewhere, or didn’t import my project correctly. Regardless, I highly recommend SciTE ASCS!
Recently Steamed:
- 08/27/2008: Flash Player 10 will not work with Amazon S3
- 07/23/2008: Mochi Media Site Relaunch
- 07/22/2008: Amazon S3 Downtime Visualized
I actually moved from SciTE to SEPY then to FlashDevelop. I really like Flash Develop these days. I found the best code hinting from FlashDevelop, personally.
But then, I also used SciTE a long while ago. I would not be surprised if the Flash side of things has been improved. Still, check out FlashDevelop again, make sure the preferences are all set up right for library paths and such.
Comment by Brian McBride — 4/24/2006 @ 6:49 pm
That’s strange that you couldn’t get the code-hinting/completion to work with FlashDevelop, Philippe, the auther of SciTE is one of the developers of FlashDevelop and even states on the SciTE page that the project is out of date.
Comment by Tim — 4/24/2006 @ 7:38 pm
Hi, I think you would enjoy inter-class code-hinting if you have tried FlashDevelop 2.0, and have the class pathes set up correctly. I would be more than happy to assist you with it.
Comment by Tangent — 4/24/2006 @ 7:39 pm
Yeah, I’m always 3 steps behind everyone else. I’ll have to revisit FlashDevelop. Being on a Mac and PC I like software that is cross-platform. I see from the FD site that they will be porting it to OS X eventually.
Comment by geoff — 4/24/2006 @ 10:46 pm