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IDE for ActionScript developers. Could it be comfortable?

IDE stands for ‘Integrated Development Environment‘.

IDE is the place where you write your code.

For most of beginning AS developers this is Flash IDE (Flash MX, Flash 8 or Flash CS3). For basic code like gotoAndStop and gotoAndPlay standard code editor is just nothing more needed.

However, when you grow up as a programmer and step deeper into ActionScript classes and language paradigms you will feel that Flash IDE is not what developers might dream about. There is a number of editors which support ActionScript language, however I would recommend the one I use myself.

ActionScript 3, SharedObject crashing Flash CS IDE

Recently I met a problem when using SharedObjects caused Flash CS IDE simply to crash with an error.

I looked through the web and found not that much about the problem, however it still continued to cease working.

I my code I was creating several different SharedObjects, and connected them to different local data.

You see, here is the sample actionscript code from Flash Help Content: