The Flash Catalyst (formerly Thermo) and Flex Builder 4 session has just ended and Adobe's speakers presented us many cool stuff.
This is a top ten list of features of Flex Builder 4:
- Package Explorer: it navigates into the ActionScript classes of a SWC file
- File Template: finally we'll be able to create template files to use in our Flex 4 projects
- Improved Refactoring: you can now move classes from different packages
- Class code hints: mouse overing a class of the Flex 4 SDK you'll get the Livedocs hint for that class
- Generate Getter/Setter: at least !
- Generate event handler: as soon as you associate and event to a function, Flex Builder 4 will automatically autogenerates the event handler declared
- Conditional Breakpoints for debugging
- Improvements on Debugging
- Flex Unit support
- Network Monitor: yes it's back. If you were a Flex Builder 1.0 users you know how cool it is :)
Give us UML!
Posted by: Tink | November 18, 2008 at 02:13 PM
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Posted by: eon | December 19, 2008 at 05:32 PM
The most ridiculous thing I've noticed about Flex debugging is the fact that the watch window honors scope. So if you are in global scope and expand on an instance of an object in the locals watch window you only see public properties/variables. WTF?
Posted by: Mark | February 21, 2009 at 04:28 AM
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Posted by: Samuel Asher Rivello | June 02, 2009 at 06:23 PM
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Posted by: Samuel Asher Rivello | June 21, 2009 at 01:05 PM
I couldn't get file templates to be useful...as far as I can tell, you can only modify a single template for AS files and a single template for MXML files. You can't add your own templates or anything.
Generate event handler only seems to work in MXML, I couldn't get it to work in AS files (eg when I call addEventListener, it doesn't offer to generate an event handler)
What's disappointing is that both of these features have been included in the free FlashDevelop for ages, and Flex Builder (now Flash Builder) appears to try to copy these useful features, but implemented poorly
Posted by: David | July 23, 2009 at 05:21 PM