This page contains such a copy that is moderately up-to-date (August 2010), and it’s what I’m using on FDT now. Maybe a Chrome/Firefox/Browser extension could do the trick (something that allows you to download a site with pages pre-rendered after JavaScript execution), but I couldn’t find any such extension that acted on subpages.Īnyway, this is all to say that if you want the documentation to work properly in FDT, you have no option other than getting a copy of the Flash documentation and using it instead. But this would probably take a big time for development and I’m not sure whether either Adobe or PowerFlasher (makers of FDT) have that as a high priority. The real solution to this – and to the fact that the online LiveDocs version has too many packages and frameworks that may be useless to some developers – would be to allow a download of the LiveDocs without any kind of dynamic content creation, and with frameworks properly pre-selected (for example, I want the latest version of the AIR and Flash Player API to be listed, but no Flash Lite, and no other framework whatsoever). The real issue with all this is that because FDT parses the HTML to find reference to the classes and its members, it can’t properly index the dynamic documentation anymore when using the above zip as a reference, much of the actual information is gone. Because of this, the documentation sort of works locally, although it tries to contact remove servers (it doesn’t work on MSIE at all navigation is impossible since you get endless warnings and redirects to the front page). Update for FDT users (August 11th, 2011): while the package linked above contains the correct documentation, there’s a big problem with the new “standalone zip” file provided: much of the content is build dynamically, by JavaScript present on the page (since you can selected which packages and frameworks you want to see on the lists, online). Hopefully this will be helpful to some other people out there (and I’m naively hoping posting this here will help Google and other search engines take people to the right link).īonus: the Flex 4.5 API beta reference (for Flash 11) can be found here, although there’s no download option yet. The source page for this link seems to be the ActionScript reference archive. Thanks to coming up with this mysterious link. Grrrr ( Edited at August 11th, 2011: apparently this page has been removed and now redirects to the Flash Help online index).Īnyway, the direct link to the archived AS3 reference files seems to be this. The LiveDocs are easy to find, but the zipped documentation – which is super useful to have locally for faster access and for quick help at the press of F1 if you install it on a tool like FDT – is somehow difficult to find if you just use Google to look for it (too much noise). Plus, the official reference page contains a Zip package that is out-of-date (from 2008!). For some reason, I always have trouble finding and download the Flash ActionScript 3 language documentation.
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