Saturday, February 09, 2008

Simple productivity tips for Flash developers

If you do Flash for a living, chances are that you work on projects that usually takes more than a few days to finish. You may find the following tips helpful:

Flash IDE
1) Edit->Preferences->On Launch, select Last Documents Open.
2) If you switch between workspaces often, you may find it helpful to save your Workspace using the Workspace button right below the timeline panel.

Flash Develop
(I hope you are using this editor, this is simply the best money can buy at the moment, not to mention it's free!)
1) Press F10 (or Tools->Program Settings). Select AS2Context or AS3Context, go to Common Section and set the value for Check Syntax on Save to true. I find this to be a timesaver, knowing that your code is always syntactically correct.

2) This snippet editor is another great tool in Flash Develop (under Tools->General Tools) I use the editor to define commonly-performed tasks such as defining variables, writing trace statements, etc. After you define your set of snippets, simply press Control+B to activate it in FlashDevelop.

e.g. I have defined a shortcut for trace statement:
t -> trace("$(Clipboard): " + $(Clipboard));

Now in FlashDevelop, I copy the variable I want to trace to the clipboard, enter t and press Ctrl+B, voila, the entire trace statement in its gloary. If you know of a faster way than this, let me know!

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