Hi Richard,

I would love to have that class if it's saves time. Of course, I can use 
the Windows version of Flex but the dockbar and quicksilver are so 
awesome to work with. Anyway hopefully
they will support the Mac in Beta 3!!!

Yours,
Weyert
> I didn't see whether you specified 1.X or 2.0, and I'm sure someone 
> else will be better able to speak about Flex 1.X, but I might be able 
> to offer some insights for Flex 2.0.
>  
> I'm a PC guy myself but my colleague is currently working on a Mac 
> running Eclipse with the FlexBuilder 2 plug-ins (copied directly from 
> a PC install). Here's what you don't get:
>  
>  - Debugging ( or run in debug player ) 
>  - Therefore trace() - see workaround below
>  - IDE makes the carat jump around and highlight various things, 
> occaisionally he switches to FDT when it all gets too much
>  - No MXML highlighting and code completion in MXML documents (if 
> anyone knows the location of the DTD I'm sure you can at least hook up 
> XMLBuddy or something to it to get some sort of highlighting and 
> prompting).
>  - Errors e.g. "null has no properties" just causes app to stop working
>  
> You do get:
>  
>  - "intellisense"/code completion / look up declaration in AS documents
>  - Run as release build
>  
> Design view I'm not sure on, would have to check, not used much. So in 
> summary, it is workable for now as long as there's a PC guy around to 
> debug if it all gets too much.
>  
> I wrote a quick little Logger class and compatible output panel that 
> uses LocalConnection if anyone would like it, very simple but it might 
> save you 5 mins and it's better to have some sort of trace than none 
> at all if you must use a Mac ;)
>  
> Also tried running Eclipse in VirtualPC, as you'd expect no good even 
> on the fastest Macs, if anyone has any insights into running Darwine 
> on Tiger I'd love to be able to pass it on.



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