> > One question for the Flash Develop guys though, how are the intelli-sense > / refactoring / code navigation / hints and other IDE facilities including > maven integration compared to IntelliJ, do we have a comparative table ? >
I can't compare to IntelliJ as I haven't used it for Flex/Flash (although I have a license for it). AFAIK we don't have Maven integration... it's something I'd like to look some day, but I barely know about it actually. Regarding some other aspects: - I'm sure their MXML autocompletion and refactoring is better than ours. In some exceptional cases ours is better than the one if Flash Builder tho. We do not currently support code completion inside binding expressions nor event handlers as attributes in MXML, also, Flex CSS isn't supported either. Refactoring like renaming doesn't update MXML code. - Code navigation: It's mostly implemented, only missing navigating to attribute values (event handlers, skin classes and the like), but it could be easily added I think. - Hints: fully supported, although the displayed help would need some love, support for some tags is missing, but again, hints are fully supported, and improving the displayed text is high on my to-do list. - Namespace resolution: It's fully dynamic, we detect custom manifest files used in the compiler arguments or in build files as well. - Wizards: One generic wizard to create MXML files. This is the most recent addition to MXML support, if there are enough interest more specific wizards for things like components, skins or applications could be created. MXML has always been a second-class (more third than second...) citizen in FlashDevelop, and I work on it, but my spare time has been lately pretty scarce, plus I also work on other features, also, since have to work on several features at the same time some of them are only implemented up to the point they are requested, for example, the code navigation, I wasn't requested things like navigating to attribute values, but I always try to provide more features than requested, or CSS support hasn't turned up by anyone yet either, but I also improved a bit of it compared to current stable FD versions. . Another important point to take into account: most MXML features are not currently added in the official FD branch because I have a couple of important changes not fully finished that have been so far of low priority. But I can post builds to anyone that wants them.
