FDT, which I love. Love! It does take a while to get to a point where you're maximizing what it offers your workflow, but so worth it.Switched from PC (and FlashDevelop) to Mac at the beginning of the year, not a huge difference on balance as each are annoying in their own way.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) < alla...@receptacledesign.com> wrote: > i'd completely understand if nobody wanted to touch this one but i thought > i'd throw it out there > > a bit of background: I've been developing on mac for 7 or 8 years, the > first 5 were as an enthusiastic amateur but more recently i've gone full > time flash developing. As time has progressed, i've started to use more > tools to help with coding, I've tried FDT on Eclipse for mac which i found > (at the time) to be overpriced, overfinicky, flaky and unreliable (i realise > that with the release of the standalone FDT package the flakiness is > something that has been rectified) and flexbuilder just doesn't have any of > the text manipulation tools that a good coding IDE should imo (duplicating / > transposing lines of code shouldn't require a mouse) so i've settled for > using FlashDevelop (which i LOVE) with Parallels as a vm to run it. > > This setup has kept me going for a while but it's not without it's > problems: the keyboard changes from my mac-based Flash IDE to the pc-based > FlashDevelop IDE has been a headache, I have 3 sources of program failures > as opposed to 2 (Flash, FlashDevelop AND Parallels) which, while they don't > account for a lot of my day, are usually pretty savage when they do occur. > However, as I've been using a pc at work, I've really started to seriously > consider simply buying a pc on my next round of hardware spend (end of this > year, beginning of next) and be done with it. The mac will always be at the > center of my home media but this is for my take along, work machine. > > So the question I'm really getting to is, how many people use osX (using > windows in boot camp doesn't count) and how many are using windows for their > main work machine and what kind of software setup are you using? > > thanks for your time guys > Allandt > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
