Comments on: Flash Builder 4 beta – my favorite features

By: Satya

Satya — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:43:52 +0000

When I tried creating the getter/setter methods, it is greyed out/disabled. What could be the reason please?
Thanks

By: Chris Deely

Chris Deely — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:07:44 +0000

My favorite feature so far is instant access to variable values while debugging. If you debug an app and hit a break point, roll your mouse over any variable in your code to see a tool tip showing its current value.

So much better than trying to navigate the bloated (and unsearchable) “Variables” window!

The ASDoc integration is nice, but we need more features for WRITING ASDoc comments, not just reading them. I want ASDoc autocompletion; FlashDevelop has it and it is a real time saver.

By: Tink

Tink — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:37:24 +0000

Yeah getter/setter creation pretty useless unless you can do multiple. Its quicker to copy and paste getter/setters multiple times and rename em. I cant believe that the dev implementing the feature actually used it, cos they would soon see how time consuming and laborious the current implementation is.

I have to admit it does seem somewhat strange that these small companies and open source projects can be ahead of Adobe at some things, with all the money and man power they have.

@Sumo – FDT is far ahead in many ways, and from what I seen at Flash on Tap making good progress with MXML intergration. It aint there yet though!

By: Marcus Geduld

Marcus Geduld — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:01:48 +0000

“Let’s hope they will link it with an easy shortcut and make it possible to generate multiple getters/setters at once.”

I made a little tool for myself (using AIR) that generates multiple getters/setters at once. Feel free to download and use it.

http://grumblecode.blogspot.com/2009/06/generating-getters-and-setters.html

By: lee probert

lee probert — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:57:08 +0000

not to mention FXG support in FB4 … be nice to have a FXG generator UI too.

By: lee probert

lee probert — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:55:19 +0000

FlashDevelop is ok if you just want to author MXML and Actionscript but if you need to manage everything under one roof then Eclipse is the only option. You’ll want to configure it with all the plugins you need so you have SVN support (subclipse), ANT (for custom builds), WebTools (for all your Javascript, CSS & HTML tweaks) and all the other perspectives you can setup so you can use the same authoring environment for your entire project.

By: Sumo

Sumo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:19:26 +0000

I have to say, I’m massively unimpressed. FDT is so far ahead now and Adobe don’t seem to making any effort to catch up, let alone overtake. At this rate I think there will be a lot of people jumping ship at the next release.

By: Fardeen

Fardeen — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:11:41 +0000

+1 For Steven

Why didn’t they just copy the tool from eclipse to generate the getter / setter. It’s a shame.

By: thibaud

thibaud — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:50:49 +0000

That doesn’t sound like 3 ones that will make me switch from flashdevelop which already had that(and much more).

By: Alain

Alain — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:07:31 +0000

I really like the generate getter/setter too, but it’s still far from the killer feature. Let’s hope they will link it with an easy shortcut and make it possible to generate multiple getters/setters at once.

One of my favorite features is the easy integration with FlexUnit.