Ugh i can totally appreciate your email. I have struggled pretty much constantly over the last 2 years with all kinds of problems.
My favorite one is the one that you describe. For no reason what so ever, pressing save all of a sudden does not work and you need to goto Project > Clean. The first time this happened to me i lost out on a job interview purely because no matter what i did, flex wouldnt refresh and i didnt know about project > Clean. Another classic, is that my Project > Settings dialoge on x64 systems does not work, none of the buttons exist, you need to drag the dialogue box to make it tiny, select a new option, and resize the dialogue box again to see what is actually under, say, the class path or add SWC options. Updating the flex SDK: The whole wrapper issue. This is particulaly poor because its like Adove decided, "lets make flex 3 a nightmare to update so you run out and buy FB4" Dragging a class into your Flex Project source path is often not found. If i drag zoo.birds.Eagle.as, it is entirely possible that Eagle wont be available dispite it being in the correct package and folder system. "Flash player cannot be found, please install a debug version" (fails at 49% build) And many more. I was particulaly depressed the other day when i tried FB4 under an I5 64bit system and ran into the whole "forced clean after each build", its not filled me with alot of confidence. Cheers, Clark. On 2 February 2010 00:43, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have you tried the beta of FlashBuilder 4? (FlexBuilder was renamed to > FlashBuilder.) > > > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/ > > > > Gordon Smith > > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Lee Jenkins > *Sent:* Monday, February 01, 2010 11:10 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Flex Builder 3 - A little to be desired > > > > > > > Hi all, > > Just getting started with Flex and FlexBuilder and I am unimpressed with > the FB > IDE (though flex and actionscript are nice to me) and was hoping someone > could > help me out with a couple of annoyances. > > 1. After working in the editor, I ALWAYS have to highlight the project node > in > the Flex Navigator before Run, Debug, etc buttons work or say CTRL-F11 to > run my > project will work. > > 2. My projects (different ones I've noticed this with) required that I > perform a > "Clean" from the Project > Clean menu before changes will take effect many > times. I've wasted literally hours trying to figure why my code is not > working > correctly, until a light bulb goes off and I try the "Clean" option at > which the > compiler finally links in the changes. > > After working with the likes of Delphi and Visual Studio, I'm very > disappointed > in the product if I have to in fact take these annoying steps consistently > just > to get my projects to compile and build correctly :-) > > Thanks for suggestions. > > -- > Warm Regards, > > Lee > > >
