ActionScript parser?

I was looking for an ActionScript and syntax color
highlighter. Several places I read about one by Brett Errington
which should be downloadable from his website
http://be.nw.com.au/ but this
address is not working. Is there anybody who has the parser and
would be willing to send it to me?
Please contact me at www.winternet.no
Regards,
Allan Jensen

I have a copy. you can email me at [email protected] if it is urgent.
otherwise I'll be putting a copy up on my asp4hs site. I had been linking to Brett's site, but that's obviously not working right now.
it'll be here... probably later tonight when I can fix it.
http://www.wilk4.com/asp4hs/list2.htm#flmxact_parser
jeff
-- Jeff Wilkinson
volunteer for HomeSite
see Asp4Hs: ASP/PHP/.Net/etc Development Extensions for HomeSite
http://www.wilk4.com/asp4hs

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Hi all,
      In the previous and old post (http://forums.adobe.com/message/223435) , people (and I) asked about a parser for ActionScript. My post was never responsed, I am not sure whether the forum is still activated or not?
       I need if there is an ActionScript parser written in ActionScript. I know there are (almost complete) parsers for ActionScript (FlexPMD), but this one is in Java and is not very documented (the parser API at least). I need the parser to modify source code (eg. wrap functions). If anybody has an idea, I would apreciate to hear it.
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We just upgraded to MX 7.02 from MX 6.1 here. I've been
playing around with the new flash forms and actionscript to see how
easy it would be to replicate some of the things we did with
javascript in actionscript.
While debugging one of the scripts I noticed that whatever
parses the actionscript for syntax errors was picking up illegal
keywords in areas where keywords aren't typically allowed. It finds
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actionscript is allowed. Unfortunately, three of the keywords
(import, new, and delete) are pretty common in comments and
tooltips.
I didn't notice anything about this in the known issues for
7.02. Is anyone aware of a current hotfix or one coming soon to fix
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the use of those words until the next update?

Flash and closed-captioning

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> There is a different method that I have been unable to
figure
> out. If you use captivate you can sync captions with
audio.
I haven't used Captivate, but I've heard of this approach
quite often.
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> Walter's idea is the way to go though, but that way is
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period
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timing of phrases. In my experience, this is easiest to
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to change, no
problem. If a spelling mistake is discovered that ripples
through the whole
scription ... no problem. If the text formatting changes
throughout, no
problem.
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megabytes. Instead,
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David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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Using Actionscript to generate a grid

Hello all.
I am working on a Flash project and have a problem that has
turned out to be a real head scratcher for me. I need to create a
Flash form that will generate a floorplan grid based upon width and
length values entered by the user. I have successfully completed
part of the task and I am able to generate a grid based upon the
width and length entered by the user.
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and height and clicks "draw floorplan"
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properly.
Below is a link to a sample of where I am so far as well as
the Actionscript I am using to control the sample file.
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again? (Also, ultimately I need to then send the form data as
email.)
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Link to sample:
http://216.197.127.249/grid/grid_sample_1.html
(Try entering 10 width and 10 length then click draw floor
plan)
Here is my actionscript code so far:
my_button.addEventListener("onPress",gridf);
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function gridF(h,w){
initX = 0;
initY = 0;
counter = 0;
for (var i = 1; i<=h; i++) {
for (var j = 1; j<=w; j++) {
counter++;
grid_container.attachMovie("cellMC", "cell"+counter,
counter);
grid_container["cell"+counter]._x = initX;
grid_container["cell"+counter]._y = initY;
initX += 15;
initY += 15;
initX = 0;
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height input varible is heightTF.)

Thanks for taking time to answer my post, kglad.
Yes. I believe I understand. I could create another button
and call it "Reset Grid" and call this function, however what I am
hoping for is to have the grid redraw simply by the user entering
new values for the width and height and then clicking "draw
floorplan" again.
Currently the first line of code is:
my_button.addEventListener("onPress",gridf); Should not the grid
redraw each time and then parse the new values in the width and
height fields? I am sure I am just dense but my grid is not
clearing each time the "draw " button is clicked.
You can see this happen on the sample link below. After
entering say 20 width and 20 height values and clicking "draw"
button, the grid is created perfectly. Then if, say new values of
10 width and 10 height are entered and "draw" button is clicked,
the grid does not redraw correctly using these new values.
Sample link:
http://216.197.127.249/grid/grid_sample_1.html
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Specify the GUI declaratively in ActionScript like in JavaFX Script instead of MXML

After reading a bit about JavaFX Script (which is actually remarkebly close to ActionScript 3) as a developer I thought the way one can specify the GUI declaratively in JavaFX Script via JSON-like notation for the components is pretty cool. It would be nice to have something like that in Flex/ActionScript too. The advantages I see over MXML are:
1) a more compact notation than XML which is nice from a developers view point who actually writes this kind of code. Of course the idea would be that designers still design the GUI with graphical tools that generate this code but if you have to dive in and edit the code it's nice not to have to deal with verbose XML and I think even designers can easily understand JSON-like code; don't just assume that designers love XML because HTML was based on SGML! I'm not so sure if today many designers really still know raw HTML that well (like in 1997, the early days...). Server side developers probably know it better because they have to adapt it to jsp or asp or whatever framework.
2) The fact that it's all ActionScript gives a seamless integration between just composing the components to form the GUI and adding scripts to add additionial behavior instead of mixing XML with actionscript code => no more need for those nasty CDATA blocks! It would also be easy for development tools like Flexbuilder to give a seamsless experience with code completion and zooming in on the code because it's all Actionscript! There's also no need for a separate expression language to tie the MXML to the underlying Actionscript. It would it also make easier to create custom components (not just simple composition components which is really easy in MXML) because you don't have to implement separate XML tags.
here's a short JavaFX Script example:
Frame {
content: GroupPanel {
var myRow = Row { alignment: BASELINE }
var label_col = Column { alignment: TRAILING }
var field_col = Column { alignment: LEADING }
rows: [myRow]
columns: [label_col, field_col]
content:
[SimpleLabel {
row: myRow
column: label_col
text: "Type your text here:"
TextField {
row: myRow
column: field_col
columns: 50
visible: true
Note that this shouldn't be confused with programmatically specifying the GUI in Actionscript (which is possible today as an alternative to MXML). What I propose is at a (slightly) higher level: you don't give a detailed sequence of methods/functions to call to construct the GUI (i.e. HOW to do it) but just specify WHAT you want.
Hopefully some Adobe Flex will see this and think about it. Although I think MXML is not too bad and I can live with it if I have to ;)

I like that idea Sean. A standard and well-supported way to separate MXML and code would be good. I'd love to have builder support a MVC style triad for MXML files, with the
model.as being simply an all-public-all-bindable class full of VOs and view-specific information, any view-manipulation and view<->app communications in the
controller.as, and nothing but bindings and layour in the MXML. There's (almost) nothing stopping you doing this by hand at the moment, but it's a pain, and developers wouldn't stick to it for very long, when they need to create and maintain 3 separate files for that simple "error dialog" without a hand from Builder.
Then again, I'd rather Adobe spent the time that would take on opening and better-documenting builder's APIs, so we can write our own plugins easily, but that's my greedy side- A standard builder-supported MVC pattern for custom MXML components would be aweseome for people that aren't me :)
-Josh
As for JavaFX, I don't care for it.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Sean Christmann
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Jason you bring up a good point on a concept that I think Adobe should
poach from a different framework, Silverlight. In Silverlight the
code-behind pattern is automatic and very nice to work with. Every
interface can be composed of both a layout file and a script file, and
they get composited into the SAME class at compile time. So you can
have both a FileDialog.mxml and FileDialog.as file that know about each
other automatically, without the need to subclass one from the other.
Sean
Jason Stafford wrote:
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Personally, I like the separation between the MXML and ActionScript.
We're working on a large project, and so we have all the ActionScript
separate from the MXML files. For example we'll have something like
filedialoglayout.mxml, and then
filedialog.as that is a subclass of
filedialoglayout. All event handlers and the like are setup in the
filedialog.as file - the mxml file doesn't know about any function names.
Advantages:
MXML files become layout only - and are more easily shared and worked on
with non-technical people
ActionScript is all in *.as files: no CDATA blocks and no FlexBuilder
quirks where editing ActionScript inside a CDATA block doesn't work
quite like in a real AS file.
For simple experiments, and for learning, it's obviously nice to have
everything in one mxml file, but in a big project like ours, the
separation helps keep things clearer and more maintainable.
Why use the mxml at all? The MXML files are nice to edit with the
visual editor in Flex Builder, and it's much easier to apply styles and
embed assets in MXML than it is in pure ActionScript.
I think two ways to talk about the same thing (XML and ActionScript) is
already almost one too many - adding a third (JSON) would really be too
much.
Just my thoughts.
-Jason Stafford
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instead of MXML
This reminds me of a certain workflow pattern that has emerged for us
which might help provide some insight on this topic. I'm working on a
project with a couple other developers which connects to a webservice
for supplying clientside data. This data is available in both json
notation and xml notation. The thing is, while the developers have
overwhelmingly agreed that we should be consuming the json version
since it can be parsed faster and provide more meaningful context for
objects (ie strings vs ints vs arrays etc...), all these same
developers rely exclusively on the xml notation when asking questions
about the data or passing structures around to discuss.
I see the same thing when looking at JavaFX and MXML. JavaFX might
allow for more accurate structures and might be able to be compiled
faster, but MXML is better for being self documenting even if it
requires more verbosity.
Sean
Matt Chotin wrote:
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instead of MXML
I'd be curious what other people think. I see MXML as a distinct
advantage over doing the pseudo-script stuff. I really don't like
the JavaFX system actually.
Matt
On 9/28/08 10:33 AM, "neo7471"
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specify the GUI declaratively in ActionScript like in JavaFX Script
instead of MXML
After reading a bit about JavaFX Script (which is actually remarkebly
close to ActionScript 3) as a developer I thought the way one can
specify the GUI declaratively in JavaFX Script via JSON-like notation
for the components is pretty cool. It would be nice to have something
like that in Flex/ActionScript too. The advantages I see over MXML are:
1) a more compact notation than XML which is nice from a developers
view point who actually writes this kind of code. Of course the idea
would be that designers still design the GUI with graphical tools
that generate this code but if you have to dive in and edit the code
it's nice not to have to deal with verbose XML and I think even
designers can easily understand JSON-like code; don't just assume
that designers love XML because HTML was based on SGML! I'm not so
sure if today many designers really still know raw HTML that well
(like in the 1997, the early days...). Server side developers
probably know it better because they! have to adapt it to jsp or asp
or whatever framework.
2) The fact that it's all ActionScript gives a seamless integration
between just composing the components to form the GUI and adding
scripts to add additionial behavior instead of mixing XML with
actionscript code => no more need for those naster CDATA blocks! It
would also be easy for development tools like Flexbuilder to give a
seamsless experience with code completion and zooming in on the code
because it's all Actionscript! There's also no need for a separate
expression language to tie the MXML to the underlying Actionscript.
It would it also make easier to create custom components (not just
simple composition components which is really easy in MXML) because
you don't have to implement separate XML tags.
here's a short JavaFX Script example:
Frame {
    content: GroupPanel {
    var myRow = Row { alignment: BASELINE }
    var label_col = Column { alignment: TRAILING }
    var field_col = Column { alignment: LEADING }
    rows: [myRow]
    columns: [label_col, field_col]
    content:
    [SimpleLabel {
    row: myRow
    column: label_col
    text: "Type your text here:"
    TextField {
    row: myRow
    column: field_col
    columns: 50
    visible: true
Note that this shouldn't be confused with programmatically specifying
the GUI in Actionscript (which is possible today as an alternative to
MXML). What I propose is at a (slightly) higher level: you don't give
a detailed sequence of methods/functions to call to construct the GUI
(i.e. HOW to do it) but just specify WHAT you want.
Hopefully some Adobe Flex will see this and think about it. Although
I think MXML is not too bad and I can live with it if I have to ;)
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needs and check if this might be related to the error.
That's all I can come up with, guess there are people here
with more insight to this...
cheers,
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Am i missing something, exactly the same scenario is
mentioned in this article
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But the Object.registerClass method mentioned in the tutorial
is giving me compilation error, the sample code attached with the
article is corrupt zip too.
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I don't care for JAXB too much. I would skip it and go right to the JAX-RPC spec (WebServices).

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Our company recently replaced Flash with Edge Animate due to some major memory leak issues when pulling in dynamic data for our digital signage.
In Actionscript, it was easy to signal to the digital signage player that the movie was ending with a custom fscommand.
However, in HTML5, im having issues with how to do this in javascript. I currently do not see anything in the JSAPI for Edge Animate that would allow me to signal a third party player to end and unload the animation that is playing.
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Has anyone has a similar issue with this in the past and found a solution?
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Any feedback would be appreciated.

Hi ,
We have a timeline complete event in Edge Animate which would signal the completion of the animation. You can add your code for the timeline complete and then perform the appropriate action here.
Thanks and Regards,
Sudeshna Sarkar

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

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                //var len:int;
                //len = event.result.length;
                //trace(len);
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                //trace(event.result.GetWeatherResponse.Location);
                //var myXML:XML = new XML(event.result);
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    </mx:Script>
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                   fault="defaultFault(event)">
        <mx:operation name="GetWeather"
                      fault="showErrorDialog(event)"
                      result="log(event)"
                      resultFormat="xml">
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                <CityName>{myCity.text}</CityName>
                <CountryName>{myCountry.text}</CountryName>
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The WSDL says GetWeatherResponse is a string, and it appears to be a string of XML, so set <mx:operation resultFormat="object"> as this will unwrap the SOAP response value and leave a string typed value intact. You can then create a new ActionScript 3.0 E4X-based XML instance from the unwrapped string:
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Hi Experts...,
Im a newbie in flex and actionscripting.....
Im unable to map nested java classes and objects with my front end flex application using actionscript....I have searched everywhere almost to my knowledge on the net but failed to find a fix...,
im having serious trouble reffereing to attributes of an object using another object( which by the way happens to be the parent object).
Im using hibernate and springs to do the DB transactions....,
Please help me out with this issue.....
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Again, I don't work with Java and you should ask Java-related question in Flex (or Java) forum.
Java or not - you need to package your server side language specific object into something that AS understands (text, XML, AMF object) and load this data into AS via, perhaps, URLLoader. Or you can open socket. Then you parse this data with AS3 code in SWF.

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I'm trying to learn how to communicate between PHP and Flash and have run into a problem. The PHP file loads albums and artists from a database. I can get the PHP file to load okay, but I cannot access a certain variable from the PHP file. Here is the PHP I am using:
<?php
$dbName = "database";
$place = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$link = mysql_connect ($place, $username, $password);
mysql_select_db($dbName, $link);
$genreID = 4;
$query = "SELECT g.name, a.artist, a.albumName";
$query .= " FROM albums a, genre g";
$query .= " WHERE a.genreID=g.id";
$query .= " AND g.id=" . $genreID;
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$response = "resp=loaded\n";
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     $response .= " album " . " = " . $row['albumName'];
     $response .= " genre " . " = " . $row['name']. "\n";
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The variable I am trying to trace in Flash from the PHP file is 'total'. Here is the actionscript I am using:
package
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     import flash.net.*;
     import flash.events.*;
     import flash.text.TextField;
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          var displayText:TextField = new TextField();
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               else
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When I trace this in the output window I get 'Total Albums undefined'. Why would this be?   Also if I just trace 'trace ("Total Albums " +dataObj.total);' Then I get the information from the php file but where there should be spaces inbetween the information I get '%20', how can I remove those?
Thanks for any information offered.
Ben.

You might consider taking what is probably considered a more standard approach for interacting with a database, where you have the PHP file echo the output in XML format and have Flash take care of parsing the XML. That way, the total can be determined by the size of the data that you collect as an array and you don't need to have PHP provide it... though you still could.
I'd like to point you to a good AS3 tutorial for this, but I haven't found one (doesn't mean there isn't... you could try searching Google using "AS3 XML PHP tutorial"). When I started down this road I used an AS2 tutorial (http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=20 ) to get the overall concept under my belt and followed up with an AS3 XML tutorial to deal with the different way than how AS2 processes XML.

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