Sublime Text - SWF autorun, auto class importing, and other questions about efficient usage

#1

Hi !

I really want to use Sublime Text on my Macbook, but I have some troubles with it that make me slow in work I need to do. So far I used Flash Develop on Windows.

Here is few problems that are bothering me :

  1. Flash Player is not opened automatically after I compile the game, but I need to start it myself by opening the resulting SWF. Is there any way to make that it auto starts ?

  2. when declaring variable like “var p:Player”, Player class is not automatically imported, but I need to type it in myself, and I also don’t get suggestion for the path, so it is really time consuming to do it.

  3. every time I open project, I need to setup the settings - haxe syntax, build target etc. - is there way to make that settings are somehow saved and loaded per project ?

  4. Is there any way to set the custom path to Haxe and OpenFL library ? I have some old projects that are using old libraries and I would like to switch fast between the two.

I plan to add more things to this topic as I will use Sublime Text more and more, and be also free to do add more question yourself, as I will add them to this first post.

Thanks !

#2

Sublime Text does not use projects, it’s this one level of support that I wish it had.

It uses the source file you are editing to try and track back to a project HXML, but if you edit files from other directories (like I regularly do) then you cannot use the build shortcut. This inconsistency (unlike FlashDevelop) causes me to build only from the command-line with Sublime Text.

You can use project.xml to set custom paths to OpenFL, like <haxelib name="openfl" version="1.0.0" />, which might help?

Setting custom versions of Haxe is more complicated, I can’t recommend a good solution

#3

Thanks for the reply !

Anyone else knows the answers for other questions ?

#4

Have you ever tried Intellij IDEA? That’s pretty awesome to develop Haxe/OpenFL.
Works well in Community Edition , too.

#5

Hey Zachary, I tried Intellij IDEA, but I had some problems that we wasn’t able to solve.

#6

Biggest problem with Sublime Text is that it doesn’t open SWF file after compiling even though it normally should.

I watched few tutorials, and this just worked for other people even though they had the same default settings.

#7

have you tried atom?
i was kind of not with it at first. but it actually has made some great steps of late, plus with a nice lime/openfl package. really quick etc etc

might be worth a shot