Comments on: Can you spot the new Flex Builder 4 features? http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/ References and declarations in Flex compiler development Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:26:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John Isaacks http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-26367 John Isaacks Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:15:48 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-26367 How bout this: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDMV-1853 I cannot find any work-around. How bout this:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDMV-1853

I cannot find any work-around.

]]> By: Rasmus Jonsson http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-25606 Rasmus Jonsson Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:24:59 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-25606 Hello! Looks great! Will flex 4 be available for linux? (as a eclipse plug in?) Greets Hello!

Looks great!

Will flex 4 be available for linux?

(as a eclipse plug in?)

Greets

]]> By: slocke http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-25421 slocke Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:45:14 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-25421 Any place where we can look to see what new components are rumored for Flex 4? We're specifically looking for footer/total row for the grid, and some sort of grid-ish control that can do row/colspan like an HTML table. Thanks, s.l. Any place where we can look to see what new components are rumored for Flex 4? We’re specifically looking for footer/total row for the grid, and some sort of grid-ish control that can do row/colspan like an HTML table.

Thanks,

s.l.

]]> By: Fadi http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-24567 Fadi Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:34:06 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-24567 How about this bug ? Is it going to be fixed in FB 4 ? http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-12201 How about this bug ?
Is it going to be fixed in FB 4 ?

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-12201

]]> By: cristian http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-21741 cristian Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:05:40 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-21741 David, I just came across your blog and was amazed how many missing "must-have" FB features were discussed here! I really hope this information gets to the FB4 planners! Anyway, my company is developing a large (>100,000 line) application in Flex and the Flex debugger/profiler has proven absolutely invaluable as the project has grown. Based on this experience, I believe adding support for trigger breakpoints in the FB debugger (e.g. break when Array element's value changes) would dramatically speed up development of large RIAs. David, I just came across your blog and was amazed how many missing “must-have” FB features were discussed here! I really hope this information gets to the FB4 planners!

Anyway, my company is developing a large (>100,000 line) application in Flex and the Flex debugger/profiler has proven absolutely invaluable as the project has grown. Based on this experience, I believe adding support for trigger breakpoints in the FB debugger (e.g. break when Array element’s value changes) would dramatically speed up development of large RIAs.

]]> By: toby http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-21458 toby Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:24:57 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-21458 I see new icons in the Outline view. I see new icons in the Outline view.

]]> By: Yaser http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-20069 Yaser Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:29:49 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-20069 Hi David, Thanks for the hard work and your endless efforts. Tell you the truth, im pretty new to Flex and i was just cheking the IDE. My concern is to reduce the learning curve of just learing the IDE and associated elements, that would help to spend much more time and concentration on learing the language. I totally support what other guys said regarding Autogeneration and Intellisence. Also when clicking on a control or a property of a control, there is no description of what is this and where it is used. I'm still exploring the IDE, hope my feedback would be helpful. Thanks again. Hi David,
Thanks for the hard work and your endless efforts. Tell you the truth, im pretty new to Flex and i was just cheking the IDE. My concern is to reduce the learning curve of just learing the IDE and associated elements, that would help to spend much more time and concentration on learing the language. I totally support what other guys said regarding Autogeneration and Intellisence. Also when clicking on a control or a property of a control, there is no description of what is this and where it is used. I’m still exploring the IDE, hope my feedback would be helpful.
Thanks again.

]]> By: TJ http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-18698 TJ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:21:04 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-18698 It would be very nice to have a shortcut that will generate a block for ASDoc comments. I would be happy if the shortcut would just generate the following for me: <code> /** * * * @param myparam * * @result */ </code> The param tags should match the params of my method and the return tag should only be added if the method has a return type other than void. It would be very nice to have a shortcut that will generate a block for ASDoc comments. I would be happy if the shortcut would just generate the following for me:


/**
*
*
* @param myparam
*
* @result
*/

The param tags should match the params of my method and the return tag should only be added if the method has a return type other than void.

]]> By: arnoud http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-18595 arnoud Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:35:10 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-18595 Hi, I have a question about view states: Normally i set the states of a view object in the folloving manner states mx:State name="{StateEnum.STATE_NAME_A}" mx:State name="{StateEnum.STATE_NAME_B}" /states So the StateEnum defines the possible values as static const for the currentState of the object. This way we have a type save solution with autocompletion as well. I have a separate statemanager for the whole app that handles all states in the application. In effect a central navigation manager. so all "currentState" variables are bound on the Statemanager like: MyView currentState="{StateManager.getInstance().myViewState}" The statemanager internally enforces that assignments to the myViewState variable are values of StateEnum. This way we can still enforce valid states. This is nice if you want to suport deep linking into the flex app. The statemanager listens for changes in the url and sats the view states accordingly, which update the views by binding. With this structure i can also update for example a CrumbtrailView object in a central way. All navigation logic is centralized and the StateEnum is the contract between the StateManager and MyView Now finaly...... the point im trying to make: With the new states we have the posibillity to change properties of an object in an easy way like: CheckBox label="Helicopter" color.stateName="0xFF0000" But when i use Enumerations as the state names i would need a construct like: CheckBox label="Helicopter" color.{StateEnum.STATE_NAME}="0xFF0000" will something like this be possible? It would be a killer feature in my opinion, but i cannot find any info on this. thanx for reading this long post! Arnoud Hi,

I have a question about view states:

Normally i set the states of a view object in the folloving manner

states
mx:State name=”{StateEnum.STATE_NAME_A}”
mx:State name=”{StateEnum.STATE_NAME_B}”
/states

So the StateEnum defines the possible values as static const for the currentState of the object.
This way we have a type save solution with autocompletion as well.

I have a separate statemanager for the whole app that handles all states in the application. In effect a central navigation manager.
so all “currentState” variables are bound on the Statemanager like:

MyView currentState=”{StateManager.getInstance().myViewState}”

The statemanager internally enforces that assignments to the myViewState variable are values of StateEnum. This way we can still enforce valid states. This is nice if you want to suport deep linking into the flex app. The statemanager listens for changes in the url and sats the view states accordingly, which update the views by binding.

With this structure i can also update for example a CrumbtrailView object in a central way. All navigation logic is centralized and the StateEnum is the contract between the StateManager and MyView

Now finaly…… the point im trying to make:
With the new states we have the posibillity to change properties of an object in an easy way like:

CheckBox label=”Helicopter” color.stateName=”0xFF0000″

But when i use Enumerations as the state names i would need a construct like:
CheckBox label=”Helicopter” color.{StateEnum.STATE_NAME}=”0xFF0000″

will something like this be possible? It would be a killer feature in my opinion, but i cannot find any info on this.

thanx for reading this long post!

Arnoud

]]> By: mike http://www.markingoccurrences.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/comment-page-1/#comment-18466 mike Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:05:24 +0000 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2008/05/09/can-you-spot-the-new-flex-builder-4-features/#comment-18466 also im not sure if im doing something wrong but when i shrink/expand code brackets once i close the file it all resets. 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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