Entries for month: February 2008

Flex Builder alternative -- IntellJ IDEA 7.0.3

Posted by indiver on February 26, 2008

The next version of IntelliJ IDEA-- 7.0.3 -- will have built-in support for Flex development.

Among other things, it will support:

Smart code completion for MXML and AS files, with cross-resolution of code symbols between them, even inside of mx:Script blocks and attribute values
Automatic code formatting, highlighting and styling
On-the-fly code validation with instant quick-fixes
Search for perfomance bottlenecks, bad code practices
Refactoring

Here is a tutorial using IntelliJ IDEAfor Flex development. You'll need to sign up for the early release program of JetBrains to get the beta of IDEA7.0.3.