Nice quick reference. Well, I guess I might have overstated things a bit in my previous message. It's true that having fdb available through the command line is better than nothing. Yet (and this might be different for other people), although you can debug with fdb directly, to me it's like coding with a simple text editor (think Notepad or even Notedpad++). It's possible, sure, but once you've been spoiled by autocompletion, reasonable syntax highlighting, goto definition, etc, you'll never want to get back to a bare bones text editor.
Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2009/8/11 Latcho <[email protected]> > Reading about fdb here and seeing it sometimes in the startup of a build in > FD got me curious. > So just tried this fdb thingie via command line. > Workflow zero, but nice outway if I really need it and to know now that it > works. > If you want a messy fdb rundown ( more a reminder / note to myself) > http://greencollective.nl/blog/?p=18 > Cheers, > Latcho > > Juan Pablo Califano wrote: > >> Yes, it's the same back-end used by Flex Builder, if I'm not mistaken. Fdb >> is indeed almost unusable without a GUI, unless you're a command line >> freak >> and a bit of a masochist, IMO (and you never tried a "visual" debugger). >> >> The idea of integrating a GUI for fdb into FlashDevelop has been >> mentioned in the FD forum a number of times. I don't know the current >> status >> of this feature, though. Last time I checked (about 6 or 7 months), it was >> on the wish list, but I couldn't find any info on its status. I hope they >> manage to get it working. It'd be awesome. >> >> Cheers >> Juan Pablo Califano >> >> 2009/8/12 Ian Thomas <[email protected]> >> >> >> >>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Matt Gitchell<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Yeah but if you want to debug/profile anything, you gotta pay that 5 >>>> >>>> >>> bones >>> >>> >>>> you mentioned earlier in this scenario, and I dunno, a coding >>>> environment >>>> without debugging now seems a little silly to me. I wish they'd do a >>>> standalone version of the profiler in Flex Builder, to be honest. >>>> >>>> >>> Just as a complete aside, in case people don't realise, there _is_ a >>> debugger included with the Flex SDK (i.e. the free downloadable SDK). >>> It's a command-line shell called fdb; it's a bit of a pain to use, but >>> it can be a godsend if you don't have a full Flex license and if >>> inserting trace() statements everywhere hasn't helped. :-D >>> >>> Ian >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Flashcoders mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
