That page was old, it does work in AS3. OK, so, burning with curiosity (and a desire to postpone doing the latest batch of client changes), I fired up Flex Builder, created a private var,went into the constructor, hit ctrl-space, and the autocomplete shenanigans triggered. If ya type in the first couple letters, then do it, it autocompletes.
So yeah, the difference is merely auto- vs manual-triggering of code completion if there's not a "." involved. the Eclipse-based editors (by default, in FDT's case) trigger their code hinting with ctrl-space, where FDT doesn't. How's FD handling vectors these days? I haven't used FD since they became available. FDT's a little wack in that if you have an interface built with, say, Vector.<String>, when you auto-populate your stub function with all the interface methods it only types it to Vector (with no type), which is kind of annoying at present. But it does handle them fine within classes, where "vector[i]." will fire code hinting on whatever the vector is typed to. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steven Sacks <flash...@stevensacks.net>wrote: > FlexBuilder absolutely does NOT do auto-completion of class, instance and > local vars (FD also does function names, etc.). I've never seen FDT do it, > either, but that link obviously makes it clear that it is possible (though > completely undocumented, not to mention that field doesn't look like it will > accept 28 characters). It also says AS2, but does that work for AS3? Why > on earth isn't this the default behavior? > > FDT costs hundreds of dollars, FlashDevelop is free. If you're on Mac, I > guess it's the best choice available. > > Also, FDT is 100% project based. You can't just drag and drop an .as file > on to it like you can with FlashDevelop (unless you already have one open). > Plus, you don't get ANY auto-completion if the file isn't part of your > project. > > Does FDT have a clone-file feature? > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
