Showing posts with label flex mxml actionscript code formatting formatter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flex mxml actionscript code formatting formatter. Show all posts
Thursday, February 28, 2008
What's Missing In Flex Builder 3
I have been using a beta version of the new Flex Builder 3 for a while now. I am pretty happy with the new features added to it, but there is something missing that I would really expect to be there. There is no code formatting functionality for the ActionScript 3 or MXML editors. For a $249 IDE plugin, I am amazed by this.
Reformatting your code by hand is an extremely tedious and error prone task. It also seems that with FB I am especially prone to writing badly formatted code. I did a google search for ActionScript code formatter and basically came up with very little. There is a PHP cut and paste formatter hosted on Senocular, but it isn't really usable for reformatting code in the IDE. I did learn today that IntelliJ IDEA has just added Flex functionality, including code formatting and a nice set of refactorings (Copy, Move, Safe delete, Introduce variable, Migrate). I think I will have to check it out.
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