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as3term – ActionScript3 Terminal released!

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Today I’m releasing to the world my new open source project called as3term, a simple terminal-like application that lets you compile and execute ActionScript code. It’s very handy when you want to check some AS3 constructs without launching your IDE and creating new project.

It was built with Flex/AIR 2.0 and it uses the NativeProcess API to launch mxmlc compiler, which is part of the Flex SDK. The primary reason that I have built it was that I needed a simple app that I could code in few hours and that would serve me as a test and a showcase for my other open source project called NativeApplicationUpdater. You can download the installers for different OSs from its Google Code site as well as source code from SVN. In the video below you can also see it in action:

Written by Piotr Walczyszyn

September 1st, 2010 at 10:18 am

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  1. Very nice :)
    Will try it straight!

    Romu

    1 Sep 10 at 10:34 am

  2. [...] Piotr Walczyszyn zverejnil užitočnú aplikáciu – as3term. [...]

  3. Looks very cool, will save me firing up Flash when test small bits of code… downloading now… thanks :)

    Philip Bulley

    1 Sep 10 at 12:16 pm

  4. nice one Piotr.

    You could probably speed up compilation by using fcsh instead of mxmlc directly.

    http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf67670-7fcd.html

    Dirk.

    Dirk

    2 Sep 10 at 7:57 am

  5. @Dirk thanks for your comment, this is good point. I will try that for next release of as3term.

    Piotr Walczyszyn

    2 Sep 10 at 8:20 am

  6. this is not just useful, it’s SUPERuseful :) I will blog about it … Long live Piotr!

    flanture

    3 Sep 10 at 4:32 pm

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  8. Can you add automatic imports?
    I have hard time remembering that Point resides in flash.geom package for example.

    Valentin

    7 Sep 10 at 9:51 am

  9. [...] 来源页面: http://www.riaspace.com/2010/09/as3term-actionscript3-terminal-released/ [...]

  10. [...] API to launch fcsh compiler, which is part of the Flex SDK. You can checkout one of my previous post with screen cast showing it in [...]

  11. hello

    how to use html/javascript ?

    Thanks

    cihan

    29 Sep 10 at 3:10 pm

  12. Yes, good job

    sban

    15 Nov 10 at 2:56 pm

  13. This looks like a great tool. Especially useful for guys like me who came from backend programming to more designer oriented platforms like flash/as3.

    Tony Lukasavage

    4 Dec 10 at 5:00 pm

  14. presents the reality of the matter. published it, i love to read thoughts that tell more of the story, they are more worthwhile anyway.

    insomnia

    12 Dec 10 at 3:10 am

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