It’s in a very early stage, and you have to ask nicely to get the needed files, but it is beginning.
Check out these forum threads:
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=725 (particularly the last page or two)
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=796
The upgrade consists of a new ASCompletion.dll (provided by Philippe of FD) that supports some of the newer AS3 structures, and a set of “intrinsic” classes developed by Ben Clinkinbeard. Still needs some work, but it’s an awesome step in the right direction. Nice job guys!
Nice to hear that! I might consider switching to FlashDevelop for a while when AS3 is fully supported! Being an FDT user on Eclipse I’m kind of spoiled with features that Flex2 Builder lacks and it still takes a while until FDT support for AS3 is out! Would be cool if they add ‘mark occurance’ to FlashDevelop! That is the number one productive feature in FDT for me.
Hi Sascha,
I am not familiar with ‘mark occurance’, what is it? What are some other things Flex Builder doesn’t support and that you really like in FDT?
Ben, mark occurance is the feature in FDT/JDT that if you mark (double click) any property or method in your class it highlights all the other occurances of it in the class. Also in Eclipse you then see these occurances as small dots on the right side of the editor which makes it a breeze to scroll to the position of another occurance instantly.
FDT has some other Eclipse features that Flex2 doesn’t provide, like for example Templates. Also there seems to be no easy way so far to use Ant for building Flex2/AS3 projects (as you need to have build automatically turned on to have instant error highlighting). Ok it would work probably with an Ant build file but then it would also build the project with Flex builders auto-compiling.