ActionScript for minorities
Nov 5, 17:12
I’ve been doing lots of Flash work recently. I like to use lots of ActionScript, and the more I write the more I realize how anemic the built in ActionScript editor is. More specifically I think it sucks. I dispise the autoformat function because it removes all of the line breaks I’ve purposely placed to visually organize my code. It is always a question of what will take more time, fixing the indentations on multiple lines of code, or fixing the spacing on the entire file. Plus the lack of many other basic text editing functions drives me crazy.
This led me in search of a replacement- and find one I did. Yes, ONE. Around the web I’ve discovered a lot of interesting tools for ActionScript authors, but most of these are windows-specific. At least there was one willing to run on my G5.
SE|PY is awesome. This editor does it all: syntax highlighting, code folding, autocompletion, autoformatting, etc. The Mac version, currently in alpha, is a little rough around the edges, but worth checking out regardless.