Kris | 1.13.2006 @ 3:10 PM
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When we are not busy working on 33inc related projects, Robert and I are both full-time Flash Programmers for an e-learning company in Phoenix. We deal with the trials and tribulations of ActionScript on a daily basis and are quite comfortable coding anything that a client puts in front of us. The biggest issue that we have faced is finding a decent editor for our code, but at last one has arrived, it is called FlashDevelop.

It is extremely lightweight and packed with fantastic functionality. It does all of the typical code hinting and package creating that some other decent AS editors have accomplished, but it does it with grace and it works consistently. Here is a list of great features that I have found:

1. Paramater type hinting in methods
2. Code hinting for Singletons
3. Hinting through inheritance
4. An extremely easy to use snippets panel with key commands to display a list of pre-defined and custom snippets
5. A "Go to declaration" shortcut to find the defining classes for objects

The list goes on and on, if you use ActionScript, it is really an essential tool!