Monday, July 28, 2008
Developing in multiple languages at once
Monday, July 28, 2008 
I am not quite sure how others handle this, but I have been developing in AS3 (FlashDevelop) for quite some time now, and I am very comfortable in it. I am now developing in Objective-C and XCode at the same time. I occasionally attempt to use Obj-C syntax in AS3. Or use XCode features.
The approaches are kind of similar (not sure I like the header file approach to every class I make in Obj-C... I like how it's all together in an AS3 class), some of the syntax is obviously completely different. I like some of it in Obj-C (releasing objects, removeAllObjects, YES/NO instead of True/False (a little better context in my opinion), etc.)
Connecting code to objects in IB is weird, but makes sense. I wish that I could turn on ALL the connections though (visually) with a command. Perhaps that's available somehow that I haven't discovered quite yet though.
I am also prone to trying the autocomplete features of XCode 3.1 in FlashDevelop. I love the partial auto-complete that XCode provides developers, wishing FD might bring that along too.
Perhaps instead of flipping back and forth I should just concentrate a day's worth of development to one particular language so I can immerse myself in what I am doing and not worrying about which IDE and which format of build I'll be producing.
Maybe this is all just par for the course (PHP, AS3, Obj-C, C#, etc.)... meaning you just deal with it and move on.
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Ashvin Savani - Arckid said...“Eric,
I saw some material on you blog long time ago about XCode and ActionScript integration. Were you able to succeed fully?
Ashvin”
