To quote a Monty Python sketch, "Luxury!" Us Linux guys have no profiler, no refactoring, no designer, features like "Find all references" simply don't (sure, they find *some* references, but often enough not all), symlinks confuse the heck our of FB, and the current (fourth!) alpha lasts another 412 days, meaning that we probably won't have major improvements before then.
It would be really nice to have FlexBuilder truly cross-platform. Eclipse itself seems to do it reasonably well. I certainly appreciate the effort at Linux support (the interactive debugging is great), but it would be nice if cross-platform support were taken more seriously, and not just used as a feature bullet point. -- Maciek Sakrejda Truviso, Inc. http://www.truviso.com -----Original Message----- From: Troy Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Every second time I debug my app, Flex closes Safari :( Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:13:20 -0500 > FB on OSX has a lot of drawbacks - on win, the help gets its own > window (so it doesn't get killed by the debugging), syntax colouring > works better, images actually appear in design mode all the time, it > builds a lot faster (iMac in BC spanks my mac pro in OSX), the text > editor doesn't lag when doing fundamental things like selecting text. > Oh and I love it when FB seems to get confused and tries to launch a > debug session but in reality it's just sitting there and waiting to > time out. At least embedded fonts still disappear on both platforms > in between compiles for no apparent reason so I don't feel completely > screwed over. Just wanted to say, "yes." I experience all these issues as well on OSX. All of my other development tools tend to work better on OSX, but Flex... nope. I used it for a long time under Parallels, but switching back and forth between Windows-style keyboard shortcuts and OSX-style keyboard shortcuts was driving me crazy. So, I *like* having a native OSX app... I just don't understand why it has to be crappier than the Windows version? And, to add insult to injury, I found that FB3 was *worse* on OSX than FB2 was... very frustrating! Troy.
