I'm confused why you would need to look at more than one project at a time, and
you can switch projects very quickly in FD by using Recent Projects.
It's well established the debugger is limited to tracing, which is generally
good enough for most of the time.
I don't know what you mean about better syntax and variable scope across
documents. I find the variable scope feature of FlashDevelop to be fantastic.
The F4 key is great. If you mean something else, I'm definitely interested.
What plug-ins are you talking about specifically that Eclipse has that help with
coding Actionscript?
I agree the documentation is lacking. I've discovered new features on accident.
I keep hearing about the refactoring feature, but how often are you refactoring
and how does Find and Replace in Files (CTRL+I) not take care of it?
In FB or FDT, if you make a typo, you lose it and you have to start over. This
goes for properties and constants, etc. I don't know about you, but while I'm a
great typist, I'm not perfect, and FlashDevelop is forgiving and still knows
what you want, even if you typo or hit backspace to make a correction, where if
you hit the wrong key or backspace in FB or FDT, you lose everything. This is
especially a pain with long names.
The getter/setter code gen for vars and the event code gen are incredible time
savers. The default shortcut isn't very good, but you can change it (I use ALT+2).
FlexBuilder and FDT offer live code compiling, which FlashDevelop does not.
FDT's lexical parsing is superior to FlexBuilder, as well. However, I find that
those features are not worth the speed tradeoff, and I can just compile anytime
to see any runtime errors. FlashDevelop's syntax checking is generally good enough.
Every developer I know that uses FlashDevelop for about a month can't live
without it. Every developer that never has or hasn't learned the time-saving
features it has (lack of documentation definitely doesn't help) doesn't really
understand how much faster it is to develop in and if you don't have anything to
compare it to, FlexBuilder and FDT are much better alternatives to coding on the
timeline (ugh).
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