Thursday, August 30, 2007

I have been using FlashDevelop for some time now - its a wonderful AS2/AS3 editor. Now I've always been one to author up a bunch of classes, code, etc. without using Projects. I know, I know... serious developers use projects, right? Well, FlexBuilder got me used to the idea (to create Flex apps and AIR stuff, you gotta use Projects). It was different than the flow I have been used to. Once I created a workspace on my desktop with Eclipse and it ATE everything there... I couldn't recover from that one and had to recreate everything that wasn't in source control. Bad practice yes, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Anyway, long story short, to get some of Alessandro's plugins to work properly, one needs to set up a Project. So I started working this way, and WOW... its extremely cool. And I just discovered this... after a build, it shows the SWF in the Project Panel... and you can explode it to show the classes and linkage assets in it!

Holy crap. I know we can inject class data into SWFs, etc. but I never saw this view before. Thats pretty freaking amazing. I love this editor. I wanna take this editor out to dinner, buy it some drinks, play some Yanni for it, and wake up in the morning with it.

Today I changed the way I work... and its only going to get much better from here. Coding hasn't been this fun in a while. Others have been knocking around with this for some time, but as I peel the layers off this sweet onion, I discover greatness and freshness. If you aren't using FlashDevelop for AS2/AS3 development (PHP even for that matter), you should consider it if you don't have FlexBuilder for AS.

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