After installing and trying out FAME, I reopened Eclipse the next day only to have MTASC not compile (at least according to Flashout). Supposedly, MTASC couldn’t find the class “Flash” (I didn’t author it). I juggled the settings around, and when that failed I searched the boards. Then, I started posting all over the place. When responses didn’t really come in, I started writing to the authors of the software and plugins themselves.

In short, I’ve returned to the Flash API.

I’ve seen the warnings for Mac users that developing in open source Flash isn’t easy, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it isn’t worth the hassle. If my primary environment were a PC, I’d probably give it another go, since there are tons of great AS2.0 text editors out there. ASDT isn’t quite as thorough as Flash’s code completion/hints/help, and I’m just not up for paying for FDT.

I suppose I ought to mention that when I reset my CurrentJDK to Java 1.5 in Mac OS X that Firefox 1.5 crashed any time I viewed an applet. I played around with the JavaEmbeddingPlugin0.9.6+b but didn’t really get it to work, so I just followed the directions backwards to see Java applets again.
AS3.0 will be out officially soon enough, and by that time Adobe will have an official plugin for Flash/Flex. In the meanwhile, I’ll just have to deal with the timeline staring back at me.

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