Flash Professional isn’t the only tool you can use for making Flash apps and games. Earlier in the year we looked at FlashDevelop; now, we’ll take a look at FDT 4, a powerful IDE designed specifically for ActionScript, MXML and haXe development. Read on to find out what it can offer you!
FDT’s Great Timesaving Features
The difference between FDT and the Flash Professional code editor or other tools is that it offers tons of timesaving features that let you concentrate on the logic of your code, so you don’t have to bother with syntax problems like a missing closing bracket or a misspelled function call. Like a spell checker, FDT gives you instant feedback about your code and identifies problems before you even compile the project. Before we install and start working with FDT I’d like to give you a taste of some of its most exciting features.
Code Completion
The most important feature of FDT, that you will probably use most often, is code completion, also called auto completion. You will never have to type in the whole name of a variable or function again. Simply start writing and hit CTRL + Space to bring up the list of proposals. You can change the auto completion behavior to be triggered on every keystroke (like FlashDevelop does) by going to Preferences > FDT > Editor > Code Assist and turning on “Every Key”.
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