I’ll be leaving for South India in a couple of days, really looking forward to some time off from project deadlines and other obligations. Hope to do a lot of sight-seeing in Tamil Nadu, might also head to Karnataka and/or Kerala if time permits.
Probably won’t have much of a chance to regularly check my email during the month of August so apologies for any delays in getting back to you. Enjoy the summer everyone!
Can’t believe I only heard about this recently, the amazing guys at Powerflasher.com are working on FDT, a Flash Development plugin for Eclipse that simple rocks! Looking at the demos they’ve got up it will include some of the following features:
- FlashANT integration
- Problems panel that seems to work as you type flagging up any lexical, syntactical and semantical errors
- Easy MTASC compiler setup and SWF viewer
- AS2.0 class wizard that easily creates your class (you can even have it implement an interface and automatically generate the required methods)
- Quickfix feature that can declare variables for you, create classes you references but don’t exist yet
- Organize imports can add import statements to your class or when you move classes to a different package will fix the reference throughout your project.
Be sure to check out the demo videos:
http://www.powerflasher.com/fdt/demos/
I’ve probably only seen the very basics of what this Eclipse plugin can do, can’t wait to see it released! It’ll without doubt be an absolute lifesaver for those of us doing AS2.0 development. Let’s see how Zorn will compare to this 
What a surreal day yesterday was, still hard to fully comprehend what happened. I just got off the phone with a friend from London when I heard about the first attack. Today they confirmed a death toll of 50 and some 700 wounded. It really brings the reality of terrorism home thinking how often I passed through several of those tube stations and how many friends and close acquaintances take those routes every day.
When will we finally learn that, whatever the goal, violence is never the answer …
I’ve recently given up on PrimalScript as my default AS editor, its been good while it lasted and its definitely a great tool for AS2.0 projects but over time some minor annoyances started to creep in. Particularly the difficulty in hooking it up to CVS or Subversion, lack of code folding and line wrapping really did my head in. Keith however blogged a little sneak-peek on PrimalScript 4.0 which looks very promising so I might well change my mind again later this summer.
In any case, after trying a few other obvious alternatives (SEPY, SciTE, etc.) I started using Eclipse again. Its been installed on my system for quite a while now for experimenting with MTASC integration but haven’t really used it for any actual Flash development until now. Gotta love it, what an incredible framework especially if you take the time to install some extensions.
With the announcement of Macromedia building its next generation Flex IDE code-named Zorn on Eclipse you really need to go check it out!
