The closest thing Ive come across for mac is using MacVim with plugins, i have been trying all kinds of syntax plugins, omni-completion plugins (no auto-completion plugin available) but nothing seems to work, the syntax plugins Ive tried gets weird results in most of the files Ive loaded, omni-completion is just not working no matter how many times i press CTRL-X or CMD-X. MacVim looks really nice but it also looks like it would be a lot of hard work just getting to know the editor.

I have known about FlexBean for NetBeans witch is my IDE of choice, there is also nbflex and flex-bean but development for all of this projects seem to have halted.

Does anyone out there know of a good IDE for developing actionscript on mac? what are people using?

We will start by making a button that calls a popup from JavaScript within Flash CS3

Start by creating a new flash-file (CTRL+N) and choose ActionScript 3.0

Then create some simple object, maby something like this:

Now select your object and press F8. Rename the object “button” and choose Type: Button.

Now we need to give the new object an “Instance Name”, we will call it “btn”

Now we need to create a new layer for the ActionScript, so press Insert Layer and rename the new layer to “action”.

This was the easy part, now we are beginning the ActionScripting. make sure you have selected the keyframe in your action layer then open up your Actions panel by pressing F9 and insert the following code:

var js:URLRequest=new URLRequest();
js.url=”javascript:window.open(’sitepop.html’,'popup’,'width=550,height=400′);newWindow.focus(); void(0);”;
 
btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,openPopUp);
 
function openPopUp(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
navigateToURL(js,’_self’);
}

This will popup sitepop.html in a new window with set height and width.