textmate

Some requirements to get the Textmate bundle working as it should.

Can't do without :

Textmate

Obvious ;-)
http://macromates.com/

The flex SDK

The actionscript and flex compiler.
Download and install from :
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/sdk/

Optional :

if you want to compile through a ant-build file you need the following :

Ant

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool.
http://ant.apache.org/
Before installing, open terminal :

$ ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on September 12 2006

If you see a message like above, everything is ok !
Otherwise install ant.
If you install the apple developer-tools ant will be installed.

Flex Ant Tasks

The Flex Ant tasks provide a convenient way to build your Flex projects using an industry-standard build management tool.
You can find the download and install instructions on the following page :
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Ant_Tasks
( the path will problably be : /Developer/Java/Ant/lib )

I'm a newbie to textmate, and while i'm creating a little actionscript 3 project, i'm also working on a Actionscript 3 bundle.

For the as3 bundle i started with a copy of the java bundle, and changed what was immediately clear.
This gave me a good starting point. But i didn't know what was going on. So i decided to start over again.

Creating a template, with all typical scopes (see previous post). Then adding piece by piece to the 'right' scope, for as far as i comprehend that it is the right scope.
Adding some items again from the java-copy for things that don't highlight anymore. Hoping that in the near future i understand what is happening.

While i'm working on a little project i keep making snippets, commands etc.

This is not my main priority, but they help to improve my own performance, so why not ;-)

For compiling i use an ant script because this gives me the most flexibility, but it is possible to compile a single as to swf also.

As for now, here is what i've got till now. Know that this is only a starting point.

If someone knows where i can find a list of all as3 functions, or how i can create it. help is welcome.

Suggestions for new items or improvements are welcome.

Before starting on a new bundle, i first created a language template with all common scopes. All with comments. You can download the start template, i created it as textfile, so use save link as ... copy paste it in a new language file from the textmate bundle.

Beware of when you press test, all comments and scopes which has no match will disappear