[osflash] AS2 Code Refactoring, Eclipse Plugin

[Carlos Rovira]

Hi Martin,

It's awesome the work you all have accomplished : ). I would like to know if
there's plans to complete the AS3 grammar and choose between AS2 and AS3, as
many of us now go the new AS3 way.

If there's plan to make some AS3/Flex work in the future I'd like to join
again. Nowadays I'm very busy but I 'd like to know if you have plans so I
have that in mind for the future.

As I said,...awesome work guys! :)

C.


2007/3/11, Martin Wood-Mitrovski <flashdev at relivethefuture.com>:
>
> > ASDT seems to be not in development anymore. Are there any attempts? I
> > think AS2.0 is still widely used and more than AS3.0. I am able to
> > code in Java, but I have no experience in Eclipse Plugin Development
> > so far. Is there anyone interested in further development of ASDT?
>
> There is a refactoring plugin in SVN which was developed some time ago
> which can
> do class name refactoring (although i havent personally tried it yet)
>
> also you'll be pleased to know that for the past month or so there has
> been
> development work on ASDT :)
>
> If you are interested on helping out with ASDT in any way that would be
> great.
> You dont need to know anything about eclipse plugin development as its
> fairly
> easy to pick up, there is plenty of documentation and those of us who are
> developing can always point you in the right direction.
>
> Just so you and others know what is happening i'll give a summary of what
> we
> have done recently and what we are doing :)
>
> The biggest task at the moment is to move from the old parser and AS model
> to
> our new parser and model. Martin Schnabel has created a completely new AS2
> parser with ANTLR3 which now provides us with nice things like error
> recovery
> when parsing (i.e. things like missing semicolons dont break parsing) and
> also
> optimised parsing for just type headers (imports and declaration) and type
> signatures (properties and method signatures, doesnt parse method bodies)
> to go
> with the full blow parser. Also it can generate code as well as parse it
> so
> implementing refactoring and similar functionality is now possible. :)
>
> The new parser and AS model are pretty much complete, what we are doing
> (and
> would be great to have help with) is creating the type management and
> caching
> system, and then re-factoring the existing code to use the new system.
> Things
> like code completion, new class / interface wizards, open declaration
> action,
> outline view, build manager etc.. whic all rely on the old parser and
> model to
> some extent. Of course
>
> Aside from this there is a new logger which uses a console view instead of
> the
> old table style with different colours for different log levels and my
> personal
> favourite feature which is hyperlinked log statements, where you can click
> on a
> log statement and jump to the log statement in the actionscript file.
>
> The viewer now has a template and properties so you can change the
> background
> colour and pass in flashvars when testing your movie, it also
> auto-refreshes if
> the swf changes.
>
> There is a new classpath manager which is now pretty much the same as the
> JDT
> build path management UI minus the library tab.
>
> We now have a build manager so you can finally build swfs without using
> ANT or
> Flashout. You can have multiple targets per project and the targets are
> rebuilt
> automatically when the project changes, so once the swf is created you can
> leave
> it open in a viewer, then when the source changes, the swf is rebuilt and
> the
> viewer automatically reloads the swf (which is another of my favourite
> features)
>
> Hopefully we can put out a new release soon but it would be great to get
> some
> more active involvement so we can get there quicker.
>
> If you want to join in just let me know your sourceforge username and i'll
> add
> you to the team.
>
> Martin
>
>
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