Hi Carlos.
Will it be possible to use FDT under Linux, or does it rely on win32 libs?
Can it be used without the Flash IDE?

/Henrik

Carlo Blatz wrote:

>Hi OSFlashers,
>
>time to say something, he? :) I'm Carlo owner of Powerflasher and so one of 
>the guys behind FDT. In the name of the full team - I thank you for the big 
>interest in FDT. I want to clarify the specs and answer all questions to make 
>it more transparent. 
>
>We were together with Ralf the first programmers on ASDT besides Peter 
>Schreiber. The 0.0.7 release was heavily influenced by us by integrating 
>templating, quicknavigation, editor context menu and key-binding. Also the 
>MTASC support was fully integrated by us against the wish of some ASDT members 
>(at that time). That was our attempt to combine our development tools with 
>ASDT and I think that pushed ASDT for miles.
>
>Unfortunately the structure and speed in the project was not acceptable for 
>us. We needed a more advanced product faster and had to develop more 
>independently than it was possible at that time. To accelerate the progress 
>with our possibilities as commercial company, we had to stop developing at 
>ASDT and came back to our own development.
>To show the dimension: ASDT has about 100 classes. FDT has over 600 and is a 
>real consistent Eclipse Plugin.
>
>
>THERE IS NO LINE OF CODE OF ASDT IN FDT! But we like ASDT and the way that the 
>flashcommunity comes back to start working together like in the pioneer days. 
>
>FDT was originally planed and developed just for us. But we know that every 
>professional flashdeveloper need such a tool and that was the reason why we 
>publish it. It became what we always dreamed of - working in Flash just like 
>JDK. It was not planed to publish it, but in the dimension it is acutally, we 
>just have to share :). It will be not expensive (more info next month). So 
>everyone has the choice to decide between ASDT and FDT. 
>
>OpenSource will save the world - but this time it made definitly more sense 
>for us to develop it by own. You can see the result in the near future. 
>
>We can also meet together with Nico Zimmerman the mainprogrammer behind FDT in 
>NY at the FlashForward to discuss and ofcourse we´ll try to answer all 
>questions here. 
>
>Carlo Blatz
>www.powerflasher.com 
>
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