david zuckerman/adobe

Making Flex Builder development exciting since 2005

1. Phillip Kerman 05.09.08 / 12pm

   namespaces? or maybe marching ants around the outside of the app. Oh, maybe override… wow–yeah, that’s needed.
2. Phillip Kerman 05.09.08 / 12pm

   dang, I’m thinking overload!
3. david.z 05.09.08 / 12pm

   alright, two points for you. new namespace hinting…plus override indications…there’s more though
4. Dan Schultz 05.09.08 / 1pm

   oh boy, package icons instead of just folders! do the packages show up as dot-notation in the project explorer? also, any chance you can make this bug part of your “pet features”?

   https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-12369

   i’ve submitted a couple other refactoring bugs, but they have gone largely unnoticed.
5. david.z 05.09.08 / 1pm

   So I just raised the attention of that bug…any other bugs that you feel are stagnant?
6. DasFX 05.09.08 / 1pm

   I see new icons in the Outline view.
7. Dan Schultz 05.09.08 / 1pm

   This one is a bugger:

   https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-11950

   Thanks David!
8. Ben Clinkinbeard 05.09.08 / 7pm

   It would be nice to have some auto-complete help on the things we write a billion times a day. “public ” should prompt me with var and function. “override ” should create a prompt, etc.

   Allowing event constants in event metadata would also be nice, like this: [Event(name=MyEvtClass.SOME_EVENT, type=MyEvtClass)]

   Somewhat related, the prompts for addEventListener should use actual event constants that exist, not just the string values in event metadata converted to const format.
9. Ben Clinkinbeard 05.09.08 / 7pm

   Oh, and organize the imports in Script blocks in MXML files. Please.
10. kafka 05.11.08 / 7am

    great class name..
11. Tink 05.11.08 / 12pm

    metadata that actually uses code as Ben’s example (i.e. using a constant and a class that can be checked by the compiler) would be great. I hate those loose strings we all have to use.

    I’d love to see the syntax of the event metadata changed as well whilst i think about it. IMO it should be…

    [Event(type=MyEvtClass.SOME_EVENT, class=MyEvtClass)]

    … means in AS we refer to that first prop as the type, the current metadata is somewhat confusing.
12. Josh Tynjala 05.11.08 / 4pm

    I second Tink’s and Ben’s requests. Completion for var/function and the ability to reference classes and constants in metadata would both be quite excellent.
13. Jensa 05.12.08 / 12pm

    David? FB-11950 that Dan pointed out is also my biggest annoyance. I have a suspicion that this one runs deep though. Whatever it is causing this issue, this is just one of the side-effects, so fixing this would close a lot of open bugs.

    J
14. david.z 05.12.08 / 12pm

    Jensa and Dan…can you guys give me more to go on than “sometimes it doesn’t work”? I need a solid, reproducible case or the actual projects that you’re dealing with. Feel free to e-mail me at dzuckerm at adobe dot com and we can figure this out off list
15. david.z 05.12.08 / 12pm

    Ben and Tink: I would love to see Flex change so that constants can be used in event declarations. There’s always a discussion about it internally, and i’ll make sure to add your feedback to that discussion
16. Brian Holmes 05.13.08 / 9pm

    My one feature I’d like is overloaded methods. Event constants in declarations would be nice. Other than that, intellisense, intellisense, intellisense and it has to be contextual. Open up Visual Studio and check out their intellisense and you’ll see where flex builder needs to be. There should be a popup on every key stroke.
17. Dan Schultz 05.14.08 / 2pm

    Wow, I reread my bug post, and noticed who horrible I explained this bug :-). I’ll spend some time tonight to get a working example to reproduce the issue.

    At first glance, it seems like if you try to do your first refactoring (when it does the indexing) from within a library project you will get this problem. However, if you refactor from a Flex project, everything works fine.
18. Mark Forsberg 05.16.08 / 8am

    How about being able to drop a cfc into the mxml and have a auto-generated?
19. Mark Forsberg 05.16.08 / 8am

    How about being able to drop a cfc into the mxml and have a remoteObject auto-generated.
20. Dirk Eismann 05.19.08 / 2am

    Quick Fixes - that’d be sweet!
21. Richard T-J 05.22.08 / 9pm

    Being able to place Custom components into folders/groups. At present the long list is hard to manage, especially when including collections like flexlib
22. Bart Claessens 05.25.08 / 3am

    First of all i’d like to thank you with your excellent work on the Flex Builder but there are a few features that would make coding a lot easier and fun :p

    If you don’t mind I’d like to sum them up in the following list:
    - warnings when vars or functions are never used in the code (when you create a var and you decide not to use it but it is still in the declaration section it clutters up that space and might cause confusion later on)
    - more suggestions like when you type: “public” it should suggest var/function
    - getter/setter generation (when you make a var _time it should make a getter and setter ‘time’)
    - Code templates (like: if, while, try/catch, singleton)
    - It might happen that when you run a project, it never runs through a block of code you just wrote because the condition is never reached. Some editors color code green when the code was executed at runtime
    - var/function highlighting, when you put your cursor on a var, the editor will highlight the code where it is used
    - autoformatting of code

    Ok, that’s my wish list at the moment :p It would be great if you could implement some of these features but I also understand I’m not the only one requesting new features :p. You can give me feedback at: bart dot claessens at boulevart dot be. I used to work with FDT for eclipse, you might get some inspiration of their project
23. Vic 06.05.08 / 12pm

    One thing that bugs me is the amount of calling and return code to do a pop up window.

    It should be a simpler.

    It takes 3-5 lines of code to pop up a window.

    Also, flex library is big. One problem w/ java is that they would never deprecate things and it got larger, and larger and no one ever said no.
    How can we remove some stuff from flex so it’s smaller.

    .V
24. arnoud 06.13.08 / 10am

    Hi David,

    i really would like to second the remarks of tink and ben.

    absolutely needed…. as wel as some advanced refactoring posibilities and template support!

    also some more advanced code completion/code generation would be awesome. the guys from flashdevelop are doing a great job in this regard:

    http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Features:Completion
    http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Features:Generation

    looking forward to the first beta

    Arnoud
25. Ben Clinkinbeard 06.13.08 / 10am

    Can you make it so we have an option to make library projects always include all of their classes? I have never needed/wanted to exclude classes in the project and going in and rechecking things every time a class is added is annoying.
26. Bill 06.19.08 / 1pm

    I’m not sure what this fuction is called, but I would like to see if you double click in a mxxml tag event handler that the ide auto creates a function for you with the control name and event type. So if I click in the ide would auto generate:

    function btn_1_click_Hanlder(event):void
    {
    }

    The IDE would auto add a script block if one didnt exist. It would add a id to the control if it was null or use the assigned id if present…
    this would be very nice for consistent nameing..
27. mike 06.23.08 / 7pm

    i would have to agree with all the code automation additions. i used to enjoy in SEPY if i had written say

    var USER_OPTION:Boolean

    if a couple lines later i start typing USE it would popup a menu to finish it for me.
28. mike 06.23.08 / 8pm

    also im not sure if im doing something wrong but when i shrink/expand code brackets once i close the file it all resets.

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