Over the last few months I’ve really been getting into more serious AS3 work, and one of the shortcomings of the Adobe Flash CS3 script editor. I was bit of a SEPY user back in the day but it seems the project has withered away.
I discovered this neat Open Source editor called FlashDevelop which I really think you should have a go at if you’re serious about your coding, there’s plenty of reasons why you should try it including ;
- Code Outlines – Makes going up and down methods easy
- Code Hinting – It even hints your own custom classes, telling you what variables its need to perform, which is very useful
- Project Manager
- Better error checking
- Code Snippetes
- Class Hierarchy
And just overall a much better experience, I would definitely check it out.
On the other side of news, I’ve had a look at the preview of the new Adobe CS4 script editor and it doesn’t look much better at all, maybe Adobe expect developers to pay for Adobe Flex to use as a Editor.
If Flash IDE scripting that bad?