ActionScript & MXML in Visual Studio Code
- A language extension for Microsoft's free editor, Visual Studio Code
- Supports Adobe AIR, Flash Player, and Apache Royale workflows
- Runs everywhere — including Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Open source and supported by the community
👩💻 Code Intelligence
Enjoy the comforts of a fully-fledged ActionScript and MXML development environment.
- Completion of types and members
- Automatically import new classes
- Function parameter hints
- Find all references of symbol
- Ctrl+click jump to symbol definition
- Search all symbol names in the workspace
- Organize imports and remove unused imports
- Rename classes, interfaces, variables, or methods
- Generate methods, variables, getters/setters, and more
🐛 Debugging
A debugger with all the bells and whistles that supports many runtimes.
- Debug SWFs in Adobe AIR and Flash Player
- Debug Apache Royale apps running in web browsers
- Add breakpoints to ActionScript or MXML
- Pause, step in/out/over, restart, and stop
- See
trace()calls in the debug console - Navigate the function call stack
- Inspect an object's variables
- Automatically stop at uncaught exceptions
- Add logpoints to print to console without recompiling
🌎 Cross-platform, Cross-runtime, More SDKs
Build and debug on more platforms than most commercial ActionScript IDEs.
- Runs on Windows, macOS and... yes, even Linux
- Build SWF files for Adobe AIR and Flash Player
- Transpile AS3 & MXML to JavaScript with Apache Royale
- Supports modern ActionScript SDKs that older IDEs don't, including Apache Royale and Feathers
I've switched over to VSCode already for most of my Royale development. Between the improvements to VSCode itself and your extension, things are getting better and better!Gabe Harbs, Apache Royale contributor
- Check out more reviews on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace
🚀 Installation
You can install the extension by launching Visual Studio Code and searching for the extension:
- Open the Extensions view.
- Search for ActionScript.
- Look for the ActionScript & MXML extension created by Bowler Hat LLC.
- Click the Install button.
To configure an SDK and create a new project, see the complete installation instructions for details.
🤝 Support this project
With the help of the community — developers just like you — the ActionScript & MXML extension for Visual Studio Code keeps getting better and better. Your generous support helps to fund the development of this project so that ActionScript developers continue to have high quality tools at their disposal.
Become a patron!
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes updates — for patrons only!
- Sneak peeks of new features before they get released
One-time donation
If you prefer, you can make a quick, one-time donation to say thank you.
A big thank you to the following community sponsors:
