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Next Flash IDE in Eclipse?
This is nothing but my thoughts and no reflection on what Adobe will do with the next version of Flash.
I was just developing an app, pretty sweet one too (NDA’d so can’t speak on it), in the Flash IDE and starting missing Visual Studio features. AS now reminds me of C# (and vice versa) so my mind wondered for a spell. I started thinking of all sorts of features the next Flash IDE could have, namely for coding, and I noticed a lot of the features I am longing for are included in the AS Editor for FlexBuilder 2.0.
This definitely makes me wonder. If Adobe is taking resources to build the entire Flex IDE in Eclipse why wouldn’t the Flash team build on top of or simply implement the same AS editor? Why rebuild the wheel?
Well, I couldn’t help but checkout Mike Downey’s blog to see if he had any insight on Flash 9’sh IDE and I found a little nugget. Read it here.
Here is the exert I was looking for:
“We do not plan to rebuild Eclipse inside of Flash, but we do want to make a few enhancements that really make a difference for users who prefer to write code in Flash.”
So, that answers my question. He didn’t say they aren’t…just not planning on it. Who knows…things could change. If you read a little more you get insight into FlexBuilder 2 integration in one of his disclaimers.
“…WE ARE ALSO PLANNING ON MAKING IT EASY FOR USERS TO MAKE FLEX BUILDER THEY’RE PREFERRED ACTIONSCRIPT EDITOR…”
This is very interesting. I’m definitely looking forward to this now. :-)
What do you want in the next IDE? Well, comment on Downey’s blog.
Posted by John C. Bland II on April 22, 2006 8:09 PM | Permalink
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