Flash Develop 3.0 released!

An article by Kuba    2 Comments

No more beta or RC versions of FlashDevelop 3, the final version is here! What is FlashDevelop?

FlashDevelop is a popular free and open source ActionScript 2/3 and web development environment.
FlashDevelop seemlessly integrates with Adobe Flash IDE, Adobe Flex SDK, Mtasc, Haxe and Swfmill.

Main Features

* AS3 Project management with seamless and optimized Adobe Flex SDK integration
* AS2 Project management with seamless Swfmill and Mtasc integration (using a portable standalone command line tool)
* Advanced ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 completion & code exploration with automatic classpath detection (even without project)
* Smart contextual Actionscript code generators
* SWF and SWC classes and symbols exploration
* Test movie in Adobe Flash IDE and with clickable error results (Flash CS3)
* MTASC compilation/code checking with clickable error results

Other Features

* Types Explorer
* Automatically cleans ASO files of modified AS2 classes
* Files explorer (can create Flash 8 Trust Files for you)
* Automatic JavaDoc creation from methods
* Smart Actionscript help websearch on F1
* Jump to class/member declaration on F4
* XML, HTML/PHP, JS, CSS code highlighting,
* Multibyte character encoding
* Program menu customization with XML files
* as2api GUI for documentation generation
* Snippets
* Lines bookmarks
* Code folding
* Zoom

For me FlashDevelop is the best IDE for ActionScript, but it has one HUGE disadvantage it only supports Windows :( As a mac user I use it rarely, when I’m developing on mac I use Flex Builder (Flash Builder).

Full version of FlashDevelop comes with some new features:

* HaXe compilation and template fixes
* Fixed the broken Vector support from RC6
* Small set of other bug fixes

FlashDevelop team also announced future plans:

* Finish the one of the debuggers, investigate profiling.
* Implement class imports reorganisation and packages refactoring.
* Add HTML/JS projects, investigate Jangaroo AS to JS compilation.
* Evaluate the possible cross-platform implementation.
* Make the MXML completion actually smart.

You can download FlashDevelop 3.0 here.

P.S Few months ago I wrote an article about ActionScript IDE’s you can read it here.


Kuba