Mark, Do you use amethyst design editor at all? I tried this back in Amethyst version 1 and it didn't fair too well. I noted on their site that they are version 2 how which is great. Any experience using the design editor?
Thanks, Chris On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Mark Kessler <kesslerconsult...@gmail.com>wrote: > BTW give FlashDevelop[1] a try if you want AS, AS2, MXML, Flex SDK, Air > SDK, Haxe support . It's open source (always good to support). > > Quote from their main page... > ---------------------------------------- > FlashDevelop offers first class support for ActionScript (2 & 3) and Haxe > development. Great completion & code generation, projects compilation & > debugging, plenty of project templates, SWF/SWC exploration etc. > FlashDevelop is also a great web developer IDE with source-control support > (svn, git, mercurial), tasks/todo, snippets, XML/HTML completion and > zen-coding for HTML. > ---------------------------------------- > > > [1] http://www.flashdevelop.org/ > > -Mark > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Mark Kessler > <kesslerconsult...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Well if you have the regular version of Visual studio's you can use > > plugins like Amethyst [1], Tofino [2], or Code Drive [3]. Although I > > believe Tofino stopped developement at Flex SDK 4.5. You can do things > like > > roll your own plugin for it and get it to work for express editions... > But > > don't host your custom plugins anywhere permanent. It's against > > Microsoft's license for the express editions and they will send you > > reminders. > > > > There are extensions like TWaver [4] for some additional graphics / > > integration. > > > > > > I use VS web because of the C# .net, HTML, JS, CSS, XML, and SQL work I > do > > on my servers. Those are all supported well with the intellisense(code > > completion)... and the SQL even has some direct integration to a > > development SQL server. > > > > Even without the plugins you can just add the file extension and assign > > the editor type. This will add full formatting / color support, it just > > will not have intellisense. Not perfect, but it keeps me from loading up > > several IDE's at once. > > > > > > > > [1] http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Download-Amethyst-Adobe-Flex-IDE > > [2] http://www.ensemble.com/products/tofino.shtml > > [3] http://www.codedrive.com/ > > [4] http://www.servasoftware.com/product/twaver-flex > > > > > > -Mark > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com > >wrote: > > > >> Hi Mark, > >> > >> Notice you use Visual Studio, is there anything you can share about how > >> to set up Flex SDK with it? Are there any manual steps you need to do in > >> order to get the SDK working with that IDE? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Justin > > > > > > >