Just thought I'd start a new thread for feedback related to the fledgling AS3 support Philippe and I hacked together this week. It certainly has some rough edges still but I am happy with what we accomplished in approximately 3 days. Bang on it and let us know what you think and about any bugs you find.

Thanks!

atm, without this new system i can get mx classes to autocomplete by adding the source directory of flex2 as a classpath in FD (only has mx package, but still)

Great idea, that didn't even occur to me. The new stuff should complete the picture as we focused on top-level classes and the flash.* packages. PM Philippe to try it out!

already did, but i think he's sleeping

Haha, here I am!

So I send you the files and an updated DLL to support the 'package' and 'const' (handled as a 'var') declarations.

so far, great start. thanks for taking on this project!

If I create a class extends Sprite, shouldn't it know that it has the properties and methods of the sprite class? If I type this. I get a list of a half dozen properties and two methods. Sprite has a a lot more than that. Are these just incomplete?

Currently the intrinsic classes are incomplete: they don't include any 'imports' and the types used are not fully qualified, so the Sprite inheritance chain can not be resolved.

that's what I figured. great start, and very promising so far! it's become a bit easier to edit AS3 already. i hope you have time to continue working on it. i'd love to help, but I have a bit too much going on right now.

Until the next intrinsic classes update you can just fix the 'extends' declarations when you need it:

Yup, I was just checking that out. You can add the package names right down the line to EventDispatcher and you get all the correct hinting.

Now, my biggest pet peeve... is there a way to get FD to stop trying to say Void, when I want void???

I sent you all a new fixed DLL which spells v.o.i.d. appropriately

PS: the fixes are provided as-is and they will probably be the last hacks in FD 2.0 -- full AS3 support is planned in a future version of FlashDevelop.

Also, in things like the DisplayObject class there is:

var stage:Stage;

This resolves to the AS2 Stage class. Adding an import for flash.display.* in the class solves that.

You probably already know this, but I figured it's worth pointing out.

awesome! the dll seems to be doing enough to get me by for now. it's mostly a matter of improving the intrinsics now.

Again, great work. I'm really thankful for this!

Yes, as soon as they are fixed we should release them to the wild