Comments on: Top 10 Flash/Flex requests from a developer

By: Chris Allen

Chris Allen — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:14:00 +0000

yay! Thanks for putting this list together Marc! I’m in the same boat as you. When I work with AS3 it’s just painful because of the lack of good tools like Java has.

Another thing you should add to the list is real time syntax checking. I hate that you have to save before Flex Builder will highlight your errors.

By: Purplemint

Purplemint — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:13:00 +0000

Multi-threading is also a must-have when doing some CPU-intense jobs. Although AVM3 is a lot faster than AVM2, it still lags behind java and silverlight. Hope Adobe is working on Flash Player 10 or something exciting.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:22:00 +0000

[ArrayElementType("String")]
private var coll:ArrayCollection;

private function init():void{
coll = new ArrayCollection();
coll.addItem(23);
trace(coll.getItemAt(0) is int);

}

The above throws no error and traces true

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:48:00 +0000

I just recently started using ArrayElementType and like it, but I really want something at compile-time and not runtime.

I've been using FB3 since the first beta came out. If anything, it's worse than FB2 on the long delays after a save. This is mainly for large projects, smaller things seem to work fine.

But thanks for the advice!
-Marc

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:51:00 +0000

For #10, look at ArrayElementType:

[ArrayElementType("com.SomeVO")]
public var cow:ArrayCollection;

You'll get an exception if you add something other than a SomveVO.

For #2, try Flex 3 Beta 2. It's stable enough that you can get benefit of the faster compiler. However, code completion for types sky-rockets the CPU for some reason. So... type ":void" instead of ":voi" and hitting Enter.