g.wygonik's flash experiments

Code Collapse - Code Collapse - Code Collapse

Dreamweaver 8 got it, but not Flash 8.

what ever happened to that "unified editors" between products in the suite?

according to Mike Downey,

We haven't done any major code-editing improvements for hand coders as we found that almost all of the hand coders that we interviewed preferred to choose their own text editor. Even if we had added all of the features of an editor like PrimalScript or Eclipse (which would have been far too much work for a single cycle) users told us that they would still use their own editors. So we decided to focus on other things instead.

...like adding back and making the previously removed "Normal Mode" editing even better. *cough*

seems that one of the reasons that people preferred other editors was that the internal editor hadn't been updated in several versions, and seemed rather "plain jane". however, after looking at third party editors, there seems to be two things that are missing that would have made the internal editor work for most of the "hand coders" i've spoken with:

1 - Code collapse (again, that they gave to their HTML editor...)

2 - Class "browser" - allowing the viewing of functions in the project, jumping to those functions, and automatic code hinting for loaded classes.

i mean - we already have a project explorer (though some seem to think it's "broken" but it works for me...), code hinting (eg: intellisense), and syntax coloring. it automatically ties into the compiler (which, unless you're using MTASC, you still have to have the IDE to compile if you're using third party editors).

aaaargh. so close...

*sigh*

flame on

g.