Textmate Bundle

Check out the TextMate AS3 Bundle from chromaticrain. Just download the Bundle, and dump it in “/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles”. Don’t forget to set the language menu (at the bottom of the Textmate window) to “Actionscript3.”

If you open the Bundle editor you can drag all your favorite commands and code snippets from the old AS2 Bundle or make new ones. Click on the AS3 Language Bullet (The one with the big “L”) under the “Actionscript3″ folding menu and you can add your own custom class names. This will make TextMate color them like all the native AS3 classes.

ActionScript Execution Order

I’m going to share a simple test I did to find out what order ActionScript is being executed.

Here’s the game plan. I’ve created two classes called MyClass and MyDoc. MyClass is linked to a symbol I’m placing on the stage once through timeline and once through dynamic instantiation. Remember to dynamically place symbols in ActionScript 3 we need to associate a class with the symbol. MyDoc is my Document class. I’m also placing ActionScript traces in each of the timelines on their respective first frames.
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FITC Chicago

I will be speaking at FITC Chicago next Friday, June 8th. There is an incredible lineup of speakers from the design and tech worlds including my friends Mike Downey (Adobe), Bradley Grosh (GMUNK), Grant Skinner, and Marcos Weskamp, to name a few.