Friday, March 28, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
I like to keep a pretty lean IDE intact, but I ran into Krugle recently and I have found their free code-searching service to be pretty interesting so far. And they support ActionScript and Flex, so that's especially nice.
I installed the Krugle plugin into Flex Builder 3 as you can see in the screen shot above. Out of the box it globally searches, so you can use this help page to guide you a bit. This help page has helped me a lot already.
Are there other plugins/panels that one should really consider using within the IDE? I'm talking about pimping out Flex Builder for AS3/Flex/AIR, maybe XML, but without needless gunk.
I found this plugin from Visual Paradigm called SDE for Eclipse. It does UML (ugly) and I read this at the site:
SDE for Eclipse supports a set of languages both in Code Generation and Reverse Engineering on Java, C++, CORBA IDL, PHP, XML Schema, Ada and Python. In addition, Code Generation supports C#, VB .NET, Object Definition Language (ODL), Flash ActionScript, Delphi, Perl, Objective-C, and Ruby. Reverse Engineering also supports Java class, .NET dll and exe, JDBC, and Hibernate mapping files.I have no idea if that plugin is any good, I'm gonna pass on it for now unless someone encourages me to.
8 Comments:
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Josh said...
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“Currently, the only plugin I'm using is Subclipse - as I really haven't found any others that really felt I needed. Though, Krugle does look interesting, so I may have to give that one a shot.”
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e.dolecki said...
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“Im using Subclipse now too... its excellent but wish I could use it in Flex Development perspective somehow.”
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Kevin said...
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“The two that I find invaluable are Subclipse and QuickREx. I deal with regular expressions enough that a tool like QuickREx is wonderful.”
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KenK said...
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“@Kevin - thanks for the QuickREx suggestion. I've been firing up BBEdit to craft my regex patterns.
@Eric - thanks for giving the Krugle plug-in a spin. If you have any feedback, you can send it via this link.” -
e.dolecki said...
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“Giving QuickREx a spin myself. So far Krugle is pretty interesting. I hope the Flex/AS3 stuff gets more attention and gets filled in. Nice tool.”
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KenK said...
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“Eric - what suggestions do you have for us giving Flex/AS3 more attention? Are there projects you know about that are missing? Other stuff we should be doing?
Thanks,
-- Ken” -
e.dolecki said...
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“Kevin,
I only mean getting more people to submit code. Also, filtering somehow via tags or something might help weeding out code quicker. Right now specific searches can yield really wide open results, know what I mean?”
