The most recent announcement in the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA blog describes the advanced Flex development features available in the IDEA 7.0.3 (last version at the moment, you can download it through via the Early Access Program, Selena project).
The IDEA’s Flex development features set includes advanced refactoring, MXML and AS code completions, bottlenecks diagnostics and more ??” please find info in the original blog entry, there’s also the links to the tutorial and sample source files. Flex support in IDEA is long-awaited feature, and now it seems to be nearly complete. Question: has anyone tried IDEA 7.0.3 in Flex development, and if you did, what can you say? Even if you didn’t ??” any opinions?
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I’ve posted a short opinion in the Russian version of the blog. Just a short summary in English here.
Latest IDEA build deals almost OK with MXML files (with the except for color=’#FFFFFF’ and width=’100%’ attributes. Probably more exceptions may exist, but not in our project).
AS3 refactoring is good (when compared to other IDEs: FDT and FlexBuilder). IDEA has “Copy/Move class”, and “Introduce variable”, which are not available in FDT / FB3. But still, this is not enough - Java refactorings are much more powerful.
The most annoying thing in IDEA, making it unusable for the AS3 development - it doesn’t currently allow to debug SWF’s. Also, builds with internal tools are not available - I’ve used an ant build. A sample build file (thanks to Constantiner for his 1-year-old post, the build.xml is based on his ant script).
HTH.
Ruslan Balkin / February 9th, 2008, 4:56 pm / #
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