Flex Builder 2 Beta New Features Sneak
Mark Anders has made a post detailing some of the new features that have been added to Flex Builder 2 internal builds recently.
Features / changes includes:
- In place label editing in design view
- Guides and Snapping in design view
- Auto Import for classes that are used (use a class and it automatically adds the import statement).
- MXML and ActionScript Outline view (I gave a sneak of this at SparkEurope)
- Code collapse (finally!)
- Auto-add ASDocs comments
- block-commenting / uncommenting
- pop-up outline with quick view
- improved debugger variable display
- E4X support in the debugger (so you can use the debugger to move through E4X / XML objects.
Another thing that is in this build, but that Mark didn’t mention was improved compile times. Incremental compile time have been significantly improved. We are still working on compiler performance, but just this single change makes a HUGE difference.
Expect to see all of these features (and more) in the next public beta release of Flex Builder 2. You can grab the current beta from Macromedia Labs.
Check out Mark’s post for more details. He also discusses some of the new Flex Framework work being done.
Mike, you might want to change “beta” to “alpha” in your description above. I got all excited when I saw “Flex Builder 2 Beta” in my RSS feed ’cause I thought a major milestone had been reached (namely, feature-completedness). Don’t get me wrong…I thrilled with the new features you’ve mentioned. :)
Kristopher Schultz
29 Nov 05 at 9:35 am
Good catch. Ill watch that in future posts.
mike chambers
mesh@macromedia.com
mike chambers
29 Nov 05 at 9:57 am
Oops…I guess the next release *is* being called “Flex Builder 2 Beta 1″. So can someone explain what Macromedia’s official distinction is between “alpha” and “beta” is?
Kristopher Schultz
29 Nov 05 at 9:57 am