getting and setting  scott evans :: adobe flash builder

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1. Ron October 8th, 2009 4:25 pm

   I attended your presentation and found it very informative. Have not had a chance to play with 4.0 yet but do plan on given it a spin soon. Would have been nice if you could have mentioned if any of your tricks also work with 3.0. couple of comments.

   Will 4.0 compile to Flash 9 SWFs so that people can deploy to 9 and still use Flex Builder 4.

   Feature request for IntelliJ bindings as a option given lots of Java People in the Flex world. I found a plug in, but would really like native support.

   Also, you passed around a sign up chart that did not get around the room. I would like to sign up so feel free to email me to get my info. You should have my email address.

   Thanks again for a great session.

2. arten October 13th, 2009 1:50 am

   Hi Scott,

   I really enjoyed your sessions at Adobe Max but I have one question: the cmd+3 option doesn’t work on my mac. I think that it is one of the most helpfull things I’ve seen but it just takes a screenshot on my mac (it’s the standard keybinding) in stead of opening that menu, do you have any idea what’s going wrong?

   Thanks,
   Maarten

3. gse October 14th, 2009 11:03 am

   @arten: I tried to mention which features were new to FB 4 but I probably didn’t catch every one. For SWF9, you can build them with FB4 but you’ll need to use the Flex 3 SDK. SDK 4 requires Player 10.

   Also, if you want to sign up for Adobe User Research, please do! You can email usability_study at adobe dot com.

   @Maarten: On my Mac, Cmd-Shift-3 is what takes a screen shot. If yours is bound to Cmd-3, you’re going to need to rebind either your Mac command or your Eclipse command. The Eclipse command is called “Quick Access”, and you can rebind it in the “Keys” preference page.

4. Joel Marks October 20th, 2009 1:02 pm

   I have a suggestion that I think would shed a lot of time in code creation.

   In eclipse when writing Java code ending parenthesis and quotations get automatically inserted when you type the beginning. Then if your cursor is immediately in front of the ending character if you type that ending character instead of inserting a new ending character it moves the cursor to the other side of the ending character.

   Using Flash Builder in MXML files it auto creates opening and ending quotation marks when you select an attribute using autocomplete. It would be nice if when the cursor is immediately in front of the ending quotation mark and I hit the quotation mark key that it would just move the cursor instead of inserting a new one.

   Thanks,
   Joel

5. gse October 20th, 2009 4:05 pm

   @Joel — totally agree. We’re hoping to get this in for the final release.

6. Cotton November 3rd, 2009 11:36 am

   It seems there is a question got left at this MAX secssion: “What about the TODO/FIXME thing?”

7. gse November 3rd, 2009 12:53 pm

   @Cotton: Most likely not going to be in FB4. If so, it’s definitely on the list for the next version.

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9. alex silver December 2nd, 2009 7:59 am

   Great session, i hav already gone through the presentation on adobeTV a few times. It has helped me a lot.
   I was wondering, do you know of shortcut to build and run my as3 project within Flash Builder – not to an outside browser? I like to see my code and my swf running side by side.

   Again, a great presentation!

   thx

   alex

10. gse December 15th, 2009 11:01 pm

    @Alex: if I’m understanding you right, there’s no way I know of to do that right now.

11. alex silver December 18th, 2009 3:38 am

    ah well – i figured out that you can tell flash builder to open html pages internally, so at least i can view the swf side by side with my code – i was just hoping that there was a shortcut for it

    thx anyway

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