Thursday, August 30, 2007
FlashDevelop 3 beta 3 Rocks
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.
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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Philippe said...“Yeah and it "explodes" SWCs too :)”
