How do I use eclipse with as3?

[Petwoip]

I hope this is the right forum...

Anyway, I'm not very fond of the built-in code editor that Flash CS4 provides. I've had some experience with Eclipse, and I recently found out that it is possible to edit AS3.

Problem is, I need help getting this to work. I would greatly appreciate it if someone who has experience with AS3 in Eclipse could write a quick step-by-step tutorial on what i should download and what I should do to get my AS3 files working.

If you can help, thanks in advance!

[453.0]

This is not a step-by-step tutorial but it might help you get started: http://blog.wisebisoft.com/2009/03/03/eclipse-and-flex-plug-in/ Good luck.

[Petwoip]

Thanks, I'll try it out and say if it works

[senocular]

There's also http://axdt.org/wiki/

[Petwoip]

Ok, so I tried both --- and I got two different errors.

For FlexBuilder I created a new AS3 Project, and this error came up:

Problem Opening Wizard: the Selection Wizard could not be started

For AXDT I successfully created a new AXDT project, but when I created a new class, this error came up:

Could not open the editor: The editor class could not be instantiated. This usually indicates a missing no-arg constructor or that the editor's class name was mistyped in plugin.xml.


As you can see, I'm having trouble with both things. If either of you know what I can do to fix these problems, please reply.

Thanks

[Gnoll]

There are other non eclipse ides like FlashDevelop (yay), which is also free and uses the free flex sdk

Gnoll

[Petwoip]

I've used FlashDevelop successfully, but i like how eclipse does automatic syntax checking and other features.

[Gnoll]

FlashDevelop doesn't?

Gnoll

[Petwoip]

I don't think it does. If you know of a way, I'd like to hear it

[453.0]

From what I can remember, FlashDevelop does the automatic syntax checking, Flex Builder doesn't. FD has more features aimed for the "designer public". I'm saying this because from my point of view, such features are quite senseless... I don't mind having them around, just that they definitely don't bring a plus or something... they are only there to "take the eyes" or beginners ( at least, in my opinion )...

So, you'll need to Flex Builder plug-in for Eclipse in order to write and compile AS code. In case you have downloaded the latest version of Eclipse, then that might be the reason the plug-in is not working. I can confirm that it has been working with Europa and Ganymede but if I'm not mistaking then I saw some articles saying that the Flex Builder plug-in is having some trouble with the latest version ( again, I didn't test is to this might not be the case ).

Or, simply download Flex Builder... Either way, you'll need a serial number for both and since Flex Builder is also built on Eclipse, it's essentially the same thing as having Eclipse installed and installing the Flex Builder plug-in for it ( so in essence, you're still running Eclipse ).