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Flash Help Book Creator

Flash Help Book Creator is a tool to create a Flash extension for an ActionScript library that adds a help book to Flash Help and adds syntax highlighting and code hints to the editor.

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Since I discovered the Sandy 3D engine, I have become involved in the support and documentation of its library. One of the resources I felt was necessary for users of Sandy was a Flash extension to add Sandy’s keywords and documentation to the Flash IDE. After realizing that making the necessary XML files by hand was crazy, I discovered the -keep-xml option for ASDoc and started making the application.

The actual programming was rather mindless, which was just looping through an XML file’s elements to create more XML files. So I focused on creating a simple and usable application that would make the process of creating the extension quick and easy. Now I’m hoping that ActionScript libraries out there will make use of this to help their users code more comfortably in Flash.