Archive for December, 2005

Flex2.0 and swfmill

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

.smtasc files
mtascNow you can create profiles using the MTASC panel ( under Flush -> compile with MTASC) and save them as .smtasc files.
Add them to your project; when you will click on them the mtasc panel will be automatically opened with all settings loaded for that profile.

New testing features
Flex 2.0 and swfmill support. This means that when you open a .swfml or .mxml file you will have the autocompletion enabled.

swfmill
swfmill

flex 2.0
felx2.0

New Tabs and Floating Panels

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Thanks to Andrea Gavana who recently released a couple of really nice components for the wxPython framework there are significant changes in this X-mas build of SEPY.
new tabsBuilt-in notebook has been replaced by the new NotebookCtrl which now supports drag and srop on tabs, themes and coloured text on tabs and finally the close button on document’s tab.

Another feature added is the possibility to have all the left panel in floating windows (like in Flash IDE).
You can “float” every panel by using the context menu over the panel’s labels.
floating panels

Download the new drop from: http://sourceforge.net/project/…release_id=380394

Abbreviations howto

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

Abbreviations work like code shortcuts. In other words you can assign a list of words (abbreviations) which will be replaced by their expanded text, using a keyboard shortcut

Manage Abbreviations:
Select from menu: Insert/Abbreviation../Manage

A dialog window will open where you can add and remove your abbreviations.
Now click on “Add” and in the upper list will appear a new row with only “new” written into.
Click on that item and give to your abbreviation a name. This name will be used later while you will write into your documents.
In the right column, instead, write the text which will replace your abbreviation, and use the “|” char in order to tell SEPY where to put the caret after the abbreviation will be inserted.

For example, when I wrote XML files I’m used to write many times < ![CDATA[....]]> and for this reason I’ve created an abbreviation which let me to just write “< !". Then, when I expand the abbreviation (menu Insert/Abbreviation../Expand) my new text is " Thus, my abbreviation name is “< !", while its Expansion is "

Into the abbreviations menu you have:
- Expand (which substitue the current phrase with its expansion)
- Insert (which will show you the list of avail abbreviations, double click on one of them to insert into the document current position)
- Manage (open the abbreviation manage dialog)