Yes, its time, I need to…
\nSo how to make the transition from FlashDevelop to FDT as easy as possible?<\/p>\n
And I don’t even have to break a sweat: the amazing Steven Sacks<\/a> (creator of Gaia) wrote an article about it: read here<\/a>. Under FDT > Editor > Code Assist<\/strong> copy and paste this into Auto activation triggers for AS, and set the delay to 0ms (zero).<\/p>\n and<\/p>\n Under Problems > AS3 Problems<\/strong>: The shortcuts I just left them as they where: I’m working in another program so I should use the shortcut given by that program.<\/p>\n short explanation (so I can do this quickly if something happens to FDT):<\/p>\n Under Preferences > Run\/Debug > Launching<\/strong> at the bottom at Launch Operation<\/strong>: Select “Always launch the previously launched application<\/strong>”<\/p>\n then <\/p>\n Under Preferences > General > Keys<\/strong> find (or type in “type filter text” – searchbox: “last”) a command called “Run Last Launched<\/strong>” and click Copy Command. Assign (binding) the shortcut CTRL-ENTER to the copied command and change “when” to I used this plugin<\/a> for my trace in FlashDevelop, so how to do this in FDT?<\/p>\n Preferences > FDT > Build Path <\/strong> change Source folders<\/strong> to “source” (I like source above src) and Output folder<\/strong> to “deploy” (I like deploy above bin)<\/p>\n Preferences > FDT > Code Style > Code Templates (Misc)<\/strong> to “Override System UserName – ${user}<\/strong>”<\/p>\n Preferences > FDT > Editor<\/strong> goto “Folding” and uncheck “Folding enabled” (I like to see everything, comment also)<\/p>\n Preferences > FDT > Tools > Flash\/Flash Help<\/strong> to add paths to Flash (in my case: “H:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Adobe Flash CS4\\Flash.exe”) and the Flash help files (in my case: “H:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Adobe Flash CS4\\en\\First Run\\HelpPanel\\Help”)<\/p>\n Preferences > General > Web Browser<\/strong> change to “Use external Web browser” to my favourite browser: Firefox You have to create a code-template\/code-snippet: This is a template that resembles the trace I used in FlashDevelop and I found some other useful templates<\/p>\n Public method:<\/strong><\/p>\n for some strange reason there is no shortcut for asdoc \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n ASDoc:<\/strong><\/p>\n a switch a use a lot with FlashDevelop:<\/p>\n Switch:<\/strong><\/p>\n and the template for a singleton<\/p>\n Singleton:<\/strong> (from gskinner<\/a>)<\/p>\n enough for now, here some other posts about the subject<\/p>\n Source:<\/strong> Yes, its time, I need to… So how to make the transition from FlashDevelop to FDT as easy as possible? Let FDT react like FlashDevelop And I don’t even have to break a sweat: the amazing Steven Sacks (creator of Gaia) wrote an article about it: read here. The only two thing that I’m using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,330],"tags":[68,408,411,398,159,65],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as3","category-fdt","tag-actionscript","tag-as3","tag-fdt","tag-flash","tag-flashdevelop","tag-templates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe only two thing that I’m using are:
\nOpen Window > Preferences<\/strong> <\/p>\n\r\nabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_. :<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\nUnresolvable<\/strong> > Unresolvable variable reference in E4X<\/strong> and Unresolvable member reference in dynamic object<\/strong> should both be set to Disabled (from Warning to Disabled).<\/p>\nEditing ActionScipt Source<\/strong> (no spelling mistake: it really says that)<\/strike> Editing ActionScript Source<\/strong>.
\nDo the same thing for the “Debug Last Launched<\/strong>” command and assign the shortcut : CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER and change the when to Editing ActionScipt Source<\/strong>.<\/p>\nI’m not sure if the stuff I wrote here is only for FDT4 but the way it was explained on the site previous mentioned didn’t work in FDT4<\/strike>\n<\/div>\nSome templates\/snippets that are very useful<\/h3>\n
\nSome minor adjustments like: <\/p>\n(no Google Chrome there yet)<\/strike>
\nYou can add any browser that you want.\n<\/div>\n
\ngo to Preferences > FDT > Editor > Templates<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTrace:<\/strong><\/p>\ntrace ( \"+ ${enclosing_type}.${enclosing_method}() - args: \" + [ ${enclosing_method_arguments} ] );<\/pre>\n<\/div>\npublic function ${methodName}():${type} {\r\n trace(\">> ${enclosing_type}.${methodName}() args: \"+[]);\r\n ${cursor}\r\n};<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\/**\r\n * ${cursor}\t\r\n * @example\t\r\n * @param\t\t${enclosing_method_arguments}\r\n * @return\t \t\r\n *\/\t\r\n *\/<\/pre>\n<\/div>\nswitch (${value}) {\r\n\tcase ${result}:\r\n\t\ttrace (\"${result}\" +${result} );\r\n\t\t${cursor}\r\n\t\tbreak;\r\n default:\r\n trace(\"case '\"+${value}+\"':\\r\\ttrace ('--- \"+${value}+\"');\\r\\tbreak;\" );\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\npackage ${enclosing_package} {\r\n\r\n\t\/**\r\n\t* @author ${user}\r\n\t*\/\r\n\tpublic class ${enclosing_type} {\r\n\t\r\n\t\tprivate static var _instance:${enclosing_type};\r\n\t\tprivate static var _allowInstantiation:Boolean;\r\n\r\n\t\tpublic static function getInstance():${enclosing_type} {\r\n\t\t\tif (_instance == null) {\r\n\t\t\t\t_allowInstantiation = true;\r\n\t\t\t\t_instance = new ${enclosing_type}();\r\n\t\t\t\t_allowInstantiation = false;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\treturn _instance;\r\n\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t\tpublic function ${enclosing_type}():void {\r\n\t\t\tif (!_allowInstantiation) {\r\n\t\t\t\tthrow new Error(\"Error: Instantiation failed: Use ${enclosing_type}.getInstance() instead of new.\");\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t${cursor}\r\n\t\r\n\t} \/\/ end class\r\n\r\n} \/\/ end package<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\nhttp:\/\/blog.hydrotik.com\/2007\/11\/19\/fdt-30-code-templates\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.breaktrycatch.com\/useful-fdt-templates\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.stevensacks.net\/2010\/04\/30\/setting-up-fdt-to-look-and-behave-like-flashdevelop\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.gskinner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/as3_singletons.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/blog.flashmech.net\/2008\/08\/review-fdt-vs-flashdevelop\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/fosswiki.liip.ch\/display\/FLASH\/Code+Snippets+for+FDT+and+Flex<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/cote.cc\/blog\/using-ctrl-enter-to-compile-actionscript-code-in-fdt<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.fdt.powerflasher.com\/developer-tools\/fdt-3\/getting-started\/shortcuts\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/blog.flashmech.net\/2008\/10\/fdt-tip-boost-your-code-assist\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"