Comments on: Multi-line strings in Actionscript 3

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:31:49 +0000

Just a note of thanks. 4 years later, I Google for heredoc in Flex and voila. Try it to make sure the mx:HTML component will display some test documents correctly with a quick cut and paste into my sandbox/playground app and it’s wonderful.

Thanks!

By: Michael Naman

Michael Naman — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:16:47 +0000

A simple solution for storing JavaScript in AS3 is to embed it as a class like so;

[Embed(source = "jsFunctionInjection.js", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
protected var MyJavascript:Class;

You can then get the string version for injection by doing this;

var js:String = new MyJavascript().toString();

I’ve made a class that tests to see if jQuery is present, if not it injects it into the DOM, then executes a JavaScript function that utilises jQuery. Here’s a great source for all JavaScript injection (it’s 6 pages long but really worth it)

http://bit.ly/12wcm

By: Joa Ebert

Joa Ebert — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:23:20 +0000

You can also do this:

var x: String = “\
hello \
world \
xyz”;

Since the \ will escape the line terminator. I know it is not exactly the same but sometimes a little more lightweight than going for CDATA

By: Understanding Flex » Blog Archive » a heredoc in Actionscript

Understanding Flex » Blog Archive » a heredoc in Actionscript — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:25:40 +0000

[...] Doug McCune posted about it first (a long time [...]

By: martin

martin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:14:19 +0000

You, my friend, are a sweetie pie. This was an overlooked impending pain in my genitals. Thanks to you it never got the chance to infuriate me.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:56:46 +0000

great stuff, exactly what i needed. cdata forever

By: Telmo Carlos

Telmo Carlos — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:41:11 +0000

Thanks! Took me a while to find this page but the solution works perfectly!

I am embedding Processing code into Processing.as and compiling using the command line.

Here’s my Actionscript code:

private var script:String = ( size(200, 200);
smooth();
background(0);
strokeWeight(10);

for(int i = 0; i < width; i++) {
float r = random(255);
float x = random(0, width);
stroke(r, 100);
line(i, 0, x, height);
}
]]>).toString();

Great stuff!

Telmo

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 13 May 2010 05:09:27 +0000

In regards to Nur’s comment:
I know this works in AS2, haven’t tried it in AS3:
myString = “This is line number one.”
myString += “\n”
myString += “This is the next line.”
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I used this for an Air 1.5 application I’m building in Flash CS4 with AS3 and it works just fine for me. I needed to reference variables (XML nodes) instead of just text and add this into items in a list component – found this solution to work perfectly. Short answer -> It worked in AS3 for me.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:31:52 +0000

Ah, excellent! I was storing level data for my game as large XML files and really wasn’t looking forward to removing all the newlines and pasting in thousands of characters of level data on a single, unreadable line. Bravo – worked like a charm and saved me pulling out some Excedrin! Thank you.

By: Damilola "Chayz" Jegede

Damilola "Chayz" Jegede — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:19:00 +0000

Hey Ya’ll. Very good stuff. My own area is trying to embed CSS in an as file. Wierd huh? Thanks Doug!