Beta 2 essentially exposes the features that we have planned for the Flex 3 release. But one thing that we talked about at MAX is how excited developers should be for Thermo, because it means that we're going to be able to allow Flex Builder to become even more developer focused while Thermo can solve more problems for designers. This means more engineering effort behind the coding features like you mention.
So please file and vote for bugs (can't stress the voting enough) at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex, it's really the best way for us to gauge what developer features we need to focus on since you should assume we are not all-powerful and can't get everything done in a single release. Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dbronk Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] FlexBuilder feature rich? Not as a development tool. I have seen a sneak peak a month or 2 ago of FlexBuilder 3. I've tried to load Flex 3 Beta 1 on my box with no luck. It simply erred out on the install. Have not tried beta 2 yet. But it is beta so that is fine. But, from the sneak peak I saw, there were only a few IDE features added that still leaves it behind almost every other IDE out there. I know that Flex 3 will add some basic refactoring features and some people said wow, that's cool!. But I said, wow, it's about time! My question... How much effort is Adobe putting into the FlexBuilder IDE (which we pay for) as it is very behind the times as far as expected developer productivity features (found in almost all FREE progamming language IDE's). I've been waiting for some extemely basic ones such as: - Code formatter to reformat code of sloppy developers not caring about the format of their code. - Import organization, which organizes, add/deletes imports as needed. - Smarter indentation. Cut a section of code from one place in my file to another, it should re-indent as necessary for the destination. - Renaming or moving a class should go through the entire project and refactor for me. These are just some of the most basic things and the list goes on. What, if any, should we expect to see in Flex 3? Don't get me wrong, I think Flex absolutely rocks! But, I do find that I lose productivity with these very basic and completely expected features that I'm use to having. Dale
