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Hi everybody,
Yesterday I downloaded Flash CS6 to try it out. Everything went smooth till I fired it up and tried to write some code into the Actions panel.
The code hinting doesn't seem to work for me at all. I cannot call it up manually with keyboard and the automatic is not working either. I tried with different cache sizes, turn it off and on again but nada. It simply did and does nothing.
Then I tried the "classic approach" (as - THANK YOU ADOBE! - you have this code hinting problem since which version!?) - to delete the CodeModel folder which now seemed to move to "Common" folder; as far as I remember it used to be in the "<install_language>" folder. Not quite sure about that. After deleting this folder and starting Flash again it was not recreated. However, I was able to get some limited code hinting, I wrote this code:
var s:Sprite = new Sprite(); //got code hints after typing ":" and "new"
s.graphics.lineTo(100, 100); //got code hints after typing "s." but NO code hints for ".graphics", so I had to type lineTo(100, 100) manually
What the hell.
Also, I cannot see import statements anymore but the code above worked. Is this normal? How do I unable the imports? I couldn't find it anywhere.
Anybody can advice what to do with the code hinting?
Thanks!
F.
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Hi ,
After ensuring that the "Code Hints" checkbox in the Actionscript section of the Flash Preferences dialog is turned on , please try resetting your code-hint cache as follows:
1. Quit Flash
2. Delete your code-hint cache folder
Win XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS6\<language>\Configuration\CodeModel
Win Vista/Win7:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash CS6\<language>\Configuration\CodeModel
Mac:
/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS6/<language>/Configuration/CodeModel
3. Re-start Flash and try again.
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks and regards,
Sudeshna Sarkar
Adobe Flash Professional Team.
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No, this didn't help. After deleting codemodel and (re)starting Flash, the same thing is occuring.
CodeModel is re-created but I see no code hints.
Ps: Now after playing with it for a while, I saw the following exclamation mark for a moment. However, still no code hints and no more exclamation mark either.
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Hi ,
If code hinting is not working , it can be due to many files that are opened. Code hinting only works on an AS file when it is properly associated with an opened AS3 Flash file.
Also please try out the following steps to increase the code hint cache size and then clearing the Code Hint cache as mentioned in above post.
Windows:
Mac:
Let me know if this helps in any way.
Thanks and regards,
Sudeshna Sarkar
Adobe Flash Professional Team.
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Hi,
I noticed Flash CS6 does not give code hints (testing on timeline) when you have a new SDK targeted.
For example, I downloaded Air 3.3 and added it with the new manage Air SDK option.
If I target that SDK I get no code hints
If I go back to targeting 3.2 SDK I get code hints again.
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Hi ,
I was able to repro the issue when I copied the AIR 3.3 SDK in the <Adobe Flash installed directory> in the same place where AIR 3.2 SDK is present. Code hinting stopped working for AIR 3.3. We are investigating this issue.
You can try this workaround for now:
1. Copy the AIR 3.3 SDK to some other location say "Desktop".
2. Go to Help->Manage AIR SDK and delete the AIR 3.3 SDK added.
3. Click on "+" again in the Manage AIR SDK dialog and add the AIR 3.3 SDK from the new location i.e where its copied in step 1 eg : c:\Users\<sudeshna>\Desktop\AIR 3.3
2. Quit Flash and Relaunch.
3. Create a new AIR project and set the Target in Publish settings as AIR 3.3.0.3560 for Desktop and then try writing code in the actions panel.
Let me know if this solves your problem.
Thanks and regards,
Sudeshna Sarkar
Adobe Flash Professional Team.
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I am seeing this as well. My 3.3 SDK is in a separate directory from 3.2 and am seeing no code hinting at all. However, if I set my target to 3.2, I get code hints. If I use 3.3, none. 3.2 is in the main directory and 3.3 is in its own separate location.
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Hi ,
You can try doing the following steps to fix the code hinting problem.
1. Make sure Flash is closed and then browse to your Flash install folder. On Windows you can find it in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS6\, on Mac you can find it in Applications/Adobe Flash CS6/.
2. Change the name of the AIR3.2 folder to something like AIR3.2_Old.
3. Copy the new AIR 3.3 SDK folder there.
4. Rename the unzipped folder AIR3.3 to AIR 3.2 and move it into your Flash CS6 directory.
5. Browse inside the new AIR3.2 folder to AIR3.2/frameworks/libs/air/ and copy the airglobal.swc file.
6. Browse to Adobe Flash CS6/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/AIR3.2/ and paste the airglobal.swc to overwrite the existing one.
Then restart Flash and try.
Let me know if this solves the problem.
Thanks and regards,
Sudeshna Sarkar
Adobe Flash Professional Team
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Tried what you suggested. Now it doesn't work whichever SDK I target. If I just have the AS3 file open without the FLA open, it works fine. If I open the related FLA file, it doesn't.
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I have to say none of the suggestions here in the forum worked for me. Then after a week it magically began to work (I didn't change anything at all).
Now it works randomly - after starting up my Mac it works. However if I quit Flash, I am doing something different, browsing, closing windows, put my macbook to sleep, etc... start up Flash again and it is NOT working. I have to restart my macbook. Very very strange.
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Sick and tired with flash cs6 code hinting.
I created a fla document, wrote some code...do something...
Code hint worked ok...
I do more...create some movieclip...write more code...
Code hint...die!
Omg! I deleted all movieclip, deleted all code, deleted all things in library...
and tried to write:
import[space]
Still...nothing? Code hint seems to never show up with this document anymore...
Then, I created a new fla document.
Code hint worked ok!
I do something...
Code hint...die...
...die...forever...
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So the code hint cache gives me probelms when ever I target a non official air sdk. By non official I mean using the inbuilt Manage Air SDK to target a beta release of air (eg: Air 3.5). All my other air runtimes have no issue with code hinting.
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unfortunately, code hint cache gives me problems with all air sdk versions: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
I have not tested with air 3.5 yet. But I think the same issue will happen.
Maybe somethings wrong when Flash Pro saves fla documents. I think the problem isn't SDK, while Flash Builder and other products have found no problem with using AIR SDK
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I am having the same issue with my mac. It just all of a sudden started happening. Is this something Adobe is looking into?
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Hello,
Could you please confirm if you have installed Flash Professional CS6 Update 2 and you still see the issue persist?
Regards,
Suhas Yogin
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I have.
Sent from my iPhone 4S
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Thank you, we are checking on this issue.
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Thanks for your replies !
But, after installed the update, the issue still happen with me (Both laptop & desktop)
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This seems to be a REAL bug now, since so many people are having the same
issue. Sometimes deleting the CodeModel folder under configuration brings
it back temporarily, but it does still happens.
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Hello,
We are unable to reproduce this bug at Adobe, and we need your help for the same. Could you please file a report of your issue at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&promoid=EWQQL?
In your report, could you please provide a link to your FLAs and Crash logs? You could upload it to a free file sharing site.
Thanks and regards,
Suhas Yogin
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I've created a file that contains the issue:
http://www.mediafire.com/?gx0imljvcrbz7n1
Thanks !
(additional, there's no crash log)
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Yep, this breaks mine,
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Suhas, did we ever get an answer to the code hinting issue? I've been struggling with it for a while now. I recently discovered that if I have 400+ libraries, then code hinting turns off. This is despite the fact that I have the code hinting chache size set to 5000 files. Am I missing something? What I'm working on requires quite a few libraries and it's a pain to constantly need to reorganize the files to stay below a certain threshold. Thanks.
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happy new year everybody !
hope that code hinting will comeback in new year
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Just going to pile on here and say Hey..um...just noticed, no code hinting here either. Tried a couple of the suggested fixes, no luck. Really, Adobe, please just fix this the right way.