Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Rodseth
I've worked on Eclipse plugins in the past, and think that its plug-in architecture is very well-designed. I was thrilled that Adobe/Macromedia chose it as a tools platform. Eclipse has a small core, and each plug-in implements "extension points" and can also add its own extension points for other

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Michael Schmalle
Ignorance is bliss. This is my fault. They provide documentation for the flex builder api. I would have to look; Comming from a component developer(myself) and not an eclipse plugin dev, I didn't know not having hooks into adobe's api that they use to extend eclipse doesn't matter. Seeming as th

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Jeffry Houser
I'm willing to accept that I misunderstood what you were saying. It happens. I didn't mean to respond to the e-mail that was quoted below mine, though. If I did that's definitely my fault. Someone said Adobe should write tutorials on how to create plug-ins for Flex Builder. Flex Builde

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Michael Schmalle
Load up Flex Builder --> Help --> Help Contents Look at Platform Plug-in Developer Guide and Plug-in Development Environment guide. And/or google "Eclipse Plugin Tutorials". Ok, thanks for the gogo baba talk but, you missed what I am saying. So that is why they provide an API, I guess it's

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Troy Gilbert
> Eclipse/FB does plenty of auto-finishing of > variables/classes/constants for me. Where do you see it as falling > short? Have you used VS2005? It's like night and day (well, maybe later afternoon and early evening). For example, in FB if I'm on a new line of my source code and start typing,

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Jeffry Houser
Load up Flex Builder --> Help --> Help Contents Look at Platform Plug-in Developer Guide and Plug-in Development Environment guide. And/or google "Eclipse Plugin Tutorials". If I were Adobe, I wouldn't devote time to creating resources like these. Michael Schmalle wrote: > > > Ec

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Michael Schmalle
Eclipse can still be extended... I wish Adobe after this Flex 3 push would really focus some effort on letting people know how to extend their API's. I myself have written java, but really have no idea where to start if I wanted to add a plugin say, a code formater to flex builder right now. ...

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Justin Patrin
On 6/14/07, Paul deCoursey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troy Gilbert wrote: > > > > I largely prefer many of Visual Studio's (particularly 2005) features > > to FlexBuilder, though do like some of FlexBuilder/ Eclipse's features > > as well. > > > > Of course, the features I like most about V

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Paul deCoursey
Troy Gilbert wrote: > > I largely prefer many of Visual Studio's (particularly 2005) features > to FlexBuilder, though do like some of FlexBuilder/ Eclipse's features > as well. > > Of course, the features I like most about Visual Studio don't seem to > be intrinsic to the way it does things, mo

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Troy Gilbert
lto: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of sleekdigital Sent: 13 June 2007 19:09 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's Flex Builder is awesome, but does anyone else think it might be cool to see another Flex IDE built on top of this someday ? ... htt