[Info] Flashdevelop 3 Alpha Released

[xMCNUGGETx]

http://www.flashdevelop.org/communit...pic.php?t=1436

Here's a release that lots of people have been waiting for, FlashDevelop 3.
This is an alpha release that may contain bugs or may lack some features but
we wanted to start the release cycle for our new baby. We hope you like it.

The discussion for FD3 should be held in the new "FD3 Talk" forum.

Important:

This is a alpha release and some things still may change so heavy customization
may or may not break in future updates. Also this release should be stable and
overtake FD2 but nothing is quaranteed. There is always FD2 to go back to.

Some new features:

* New fresh look
* New completion engine
* New improved docking system
* Greatly improved default plugins
* Support for AS2, AS3 and HaXe Projects
* Support for external build scripts (skip integrated compiler)
* File state and file session restoring
* Revised Find and Replace tools
* Centralized snippets and templates
* Ability to work in multiuser computer
* Crash recovery backups
* Localization support
* Integrated browser

...and million other improvements that doesn't come to mind.

Some future features:

* Integrated Flex compiler
* SWC realtime parsing for completion
* Imported classes coloring

[T1ger]

What is FlashDevelop..?

[xMCNUGGETx]

What is FlashDevelop..?

Its an IDE for flash development. Most people now don't use flash for coding their actionscript. They use an external editor. Flashdevelop 3 can be used to code AS2, AS3, FLEX, and Haxe. There are several different work flows to work with. You can code it all in FlashDevelop and compile from MTASC or the Flex compiler. You can also code in Flashdevelop 3 and compile in the Flash IDE. Really a quite nice open source project

[T1ger]

Its an IDE for flash development. Most people now don't use flash for coding their actionscript. They use an external editor. Flashdevelop 3 can be used to code AS2, AS3, FLEX, and Haxe. There are several different work flows to work with. You can code it all in FlashDevelop and compile from MTASC or the Flex compiler. You can also code in Flashdevelop 3 and compile in the Flash IDE. Really a quite nice open source project

Thanks, will try it

[mr_malee]

most excellent.

i shall be downloading momentarily

[renderhjs]

is it as well eclipse based?
for those like me who want some screens (older look):
http://www.flashdevelop.org/communit...topic.php?t=28

[Squize]

Nice link McN. It's looking like a good alternative until fdt 3 is finally out.

Squize.

[MD004]

I've been using FlashDevelop for a short while. I like it

One thing worth noting, is that you can embed graphics from other swfs into your as3 project, using this line:

[Embed(source="anyFile.swf", symbol="linkageName")]

So i've been making symbols in Flash 6, and using this to embed it into my as3 experiments.

Also, there doesn't seem to be very many noob-friendly as3 examples, so I attached my first as3 'game' (it's more of a toy). But i'm just starting to learn as3 so I don't know if what I've done is any close to being 'best practice' but atleast it works.

Speaking of noob-friendly: I'd love to see what other people are making, no matter how simple it may be.

~MD