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Flex Formatter

Gert-Jan van der Wel — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:34 +0000

I use Eclipse 3.4.2 in combination with Flex Builder 3.0. An important feature that is missing in FB3 is a formatter. I’m very glad I found this project on SourceForge by Ernest Pasour: Flex Formatter.

Installing it is easy. Download it, unzip it, move the files to the plugins folder of Eclipse and restart Eclipse. You now see a couple of new icons in your Flex perspective, with the most important being the “Format Flex code” icon. The plugin has a huge number of settings which can be adjusted in the general Properties menu of Eclipse by selecting Flex Formatter.

No more excuses for messy Flex / AS3 code!

Write JAVA, publish SWF

Gert-Jan van der Wel — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:27:16 +0000

Ted Patrick (Senior Manager Developer Communities at Adobe Systems) has posted an interesting article about the first milestone of the Eclipse E4 project.

It seems that the SWT project has added compilation support for SWF from JAVA. Write your app in JAVA and publish as SWF to Flash Player. The cool part is that you get full JAVA development in Eclipse with all debugging and tooling but you get a SWF file on publish.

We’re using Flex Builder for our Flex/AS3 stuff, but this could become a very interesting option since the JAVA development in Eclipse is a lot more sophisticated than Flex Builder at the moment.