Archive for the ‘Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder)’ Category
I had thought that that the updater for Flash Builder 4.0 wasn’t working out for me via Eclipse or so I assumed. While I was taking Seb Lee Delisle’s video series on Papervision 3D 2 training on lynda.com I noticed that creating a new Actionscript project did not include the Flex 4.1 SDK. Then I thought “Wasn’t Flash Player 10.1 released recently?”
So after playing around with Eclipse and scouring the web, I landed on insideRIA and decided that the manual update was my best bet. But that did not pan out since the the manual update failed.
So finally by checking the Adobe Flex Support page, I had to pay attention to “Eclipse plug-in Users” heading instead of “Stand-alone Users.” Plugin users have to uninstall their plugin and reinstall the new plugin. BTW, by default, the stand-alone is offered so just scroll down the combo box to choose the Eclipse Plugin. (See screen shot below.)
Alas, this is part of my learning process of migrating as a Flash developer from the Flash IDE with FlashDevelop to Flash Builder.
So if anyone who is wondering why Flash Builder hasn’t updated on their eclipse build, check it out here at adobe.com.
DJ
Select the Eclipse Plugin in the dropdown box.
I was expecting this to come around in a few days, but I suppose that Adobe was so giddy with excitement that they put out Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst on Adobe labs.
There is soooo much buzz around the Flash community about this, maybe as big as when flash video was announced way back.
One interesting site that Mike Chambers pointed out was scalenine which already provided some skins for use with Flex.
I’ve got to get my hands dirty on this…
DJ
Found out from various blogs (flashblog & Duane’s world) that Flex Builder will now become “Flash Builder”. It is a more appropriate name for flash platform development.
I felt uncomfortable following my Flex 3 lessons without a word wrap feature. Turns out that there were none. So in my Google search, I wound up with this:
http://ahtik.com/blog/eclipse-word-wrap/
Looks good. Procedure as follows:
1) On the Menu: Click “Help” / “Software Updates”
2) Click on the “Available Software” tab
3) Insert this url: “http://ahtik.com/blog/eclipse-word-wrap” in the url text field
4) Once the url has been added to the software list, right click and select “install”
5) After following the instructions, Eclipse will ask you to restart
6) In the code, right click and choose: “Virtual Word Wrap”
Your code will now appear in Word Wrap Mode.
Update (2009/05/10): Just one more comment. There is a side-effect where the line numbers display inaccurately in word-wrap mode. The author(Ahti Kitsik) mentions this in his blog as something to be addressed.