Mike Chambers

Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate

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#!/bin/bash

# mxmlc autocompile bash script
# create by mike chambers
# http://www.mikechambers.com

#how often it check for changes in seconds
LOOP_INTERVAL=2

#make sure that a file name was passed in
if [ -z $1 ];then
        echo "You must specify a file to compile"
        exit 0
fi

#make sure that the file exists
if [ ! -e $1 ]; then
        echo "$1 does not exist"
        exit 0;
fi

#function to call mxmlc
function compile()
{
        mxmlc $1
}

#compile on load
compile $1

#get and store the last modified date of the file
MODDATE=`stat -f %m $1`

#loop every 2 seconds
while [ true ]
do
        #get the modified date
        TDATE=`stat -f %m $1`

        #check to see if it has changed
        if [ "$TDATE" != "$MODDATE" ]; then
                #file changed. Store new date
                MODDATE=$TDATE

                #compile
                compile $1
        fi

        #sleep until we check file again
        sleep $LOOP_INTERVAL
done

#!/bin/bash

# script for creating and setting up ActionScript projects in
# TextMate
# create by mike chambers
# http://www.mikechambers.com

#make sure that a file name was passed in
if [ -z $1 ];then
        echo "You must specify a Class file name"
        exit 0
fi

#get the class name (remove .as)
classname=`echo $1 | cut -d'.' -f1`

#dir that contains the as.template file
#make sure to set this
#there should be a way to get this automatically
wdir="/Users/mesh/bin/astmp"

#write the contents of the template to the class file.
cat $wdir/as.template | sed s/CLASSNAME/$classname/ > $1

#open the current directory and file in textmate
mate .

#begin to autocompile it
autocompile $1

package
{
        import flash.display.Sprite;
        public class CLASSNAME extends Sprite
        {
                public function CLASSNAME()
                {
                }
        }
}

mkdir Foo
cd Foo
as Foo.as

name=`echo $TM_FILEPATH | cut -d'.' -f1`
open $name.swf

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1. Thanks Mike , you have Mad Skillz!!!

   

   copyleftdev

   9 Oct 08 at 12:27 pm
2. Hi,
   Welcome to TextMate. I’ve come to use it exclusively now, even ahead of Flex Builder. I’ve just been getting my head around TextMate bundle structures, so this may be a bit off, but an easier way to do the autocompilation could be to use the existing “Compile current class” action in the AS3 bundle, but bind it to cmd-S so it’s called whenever you save. The template stuff can also be done in the bundle: take a look at some of the templates in the Flex and AS3 bundles for ideas. Crucially, you can execute scripts when creating a new file from a template. This lets you do stuff like create full projects, and replace placeholders in files etc. I’ve been trying to get it to handle creation of skeleton Mate (that’s Mate the framework, not TextMate) projects, doing stuff like creating classpaths etc.

   Matt

   

   Matt Kane

   9 Oct 08 at 12:44 pm
3. @Matt

   Thanks for the suggestion. If you bind the compile to CMD-S, then how do you see any compiler errors?

   On the templates, the reason I did it this way, was that it seemed like the fastest way to get started. i.e. run command, you are in textmate, in a project with the code ready to go, verses launching TextMate, creating a new project, creating a new file from a template, and then saving everything in the correct place.

   mike chambers

   mesh@adobe.com

   

   mikechambers

   9 Oct 08 at 12:48 pm
4. @Mike
   You can send the output to a tooltip which will display when you save. Alternatively you could just send it to a file. My adl script sends everything to a logfile which it then opens in Console.app, though I use fcsh so I don’t use it for compilation.

   I can see the value of doing the templates like that. It would be nice if there was a way of creating something like PS droplets in TM for that sort of thing.

   Matt

   

   Matt Kane

   9 Oct 08 at 2:22 pm
5. Mike this is great stuff! TextMate (and customization like this) is the reason we have not been able to get too comfy in Flex Builder. You should consider building your own ActionScript 3 bundle, i was surprised how easy/quick it was.

   

   Matthew

   9 Oct 08 at 5:38 pm
6. I love TextMate. Definitely my editor of choice. But, when I use it I miss Flex Builder’s autocomplete and refactoring tools. Anyone have ideas how we could get some semblance of those in TextMate?

   

   Troy Gilbert

   10 Oct 08 at 10:46 am
7. Since I’m stuck in the world of windows, I’ve used e (http://www.e-texteditor.com) quite a bit for Flex editing and love it. E is basically TextMate for windows… you can run most TextMate bundles with E, although typically they need some tweaking to work under windows/cygwin. I’ve been using the MacroMates Actionscript3 and Flex bundles (from http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/) in E without much problem. Of course, I’ve modded the heck out of them. Oh, and you’ll also need to know about this: http://www.e-texteditor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2650&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 to make the ActionScript3 bundle work.

   

   Scott Bachman

   14 Oct 08 at 7:00 am
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   29 Oct 08 at 1:57 am
10. Nice. Glad to see others using Textmate and AS3 too! It’s been my setup for a while now. I’ve also just switched to fsch, and I highly recommend it over mxmlc. I’m working on a large project that takes over 8 seconds to build with mxmlc, but it recompiles in 1 with small changes in fsch now. Definitely worth it.

    Also, for those wanting class auto-completion, this will be amazing:
    http://blog.simongregory.com/09/as3-autocompletion-in-textmate/

    Can’t wait until Simon finishes it.

    

    Joseph Magnani

    18 Nov 08 at 4:21 pm

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