RE: [flexcoders] Mac Flex developing

[Richard Leggett]

I didn't see whether you specified 1.X or 2.0, and I'm sure 
someone else will be better able to speak about Flex 1.X, but I might be able to 
offer some insights for Flex 2.0.
 
I'm a PC guy myself but my colleague is currently working 
on a Mac running Eclipse with the FlexBuilder 2 plug-ins (copied directly from a 
PC install). Here's what you don't get:
 
 - Debugging ( or run in debug player 
) 
 - Therefore 
trace() - see workaround below
 - IDE makes the carat jump around and highlight 
various things, occaisionally he switches to FDT when it all gets too 
much
 - No MXML highlighting and code completion in MXML 
documents (if anyone knows the location of the DTD I'm sure you can at least 
hook up XMLBuddy or something to it to get some sort of highlighting and 
prompting).
 - Errors e.g. "null has no properties" just 
causes app to stop working
 
You do get:
 
 - "intellisense"/code completion / look up 
declaration in AS documents
 - Run as release build
 
Design view I'm not sure on, would have to check, not used 
much. So in summary, it is workable for now as long as there's a PC guy around 
to debug if it all gets too much.
 
I wrote a quick little Logger class and compatible output 
panel that uses LocalConnection if anyone would like it, very simple but it 
might save you 5 mins and it's better to have some sort of trace than none 
at all if you must use a Mac ;)
 
Also tried running Eclipse in VirtualPC, as you'd 
expect no good even on the fastest Macs, if anyone has any insights into 
running Darwine on Tiger I'd love to be able to pass it on.
 
Rich


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developing


Just curious, how and if there are 
differences with developing Flex on a Mac (the only thing I can foresee is tools 
limited to Windows environments).
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