January{"Mon",25(2010)};

Flex4 broke fully-qualified identifiers

If you’ve ever had to use two different objects of the same name (Spark Button and Halo Button) in the same class, you’ve done something like this…

var b:Button = new mx.controls.Button();

In FlexBuilder, doing this would add the import at the top of your class and life would be good. In FlashBuilder, the “remove unused imports” feature will strip this import out the next time you make a change and save it. It’s driving me nuts- I love the import cleanup feature, but hate having to re-add my import every time. The alternative is to simply disable the cleanup.

I’ve created a Jira for it, but they changed its status to “community”, meaning it needs votes. If you use this feature, please vote now so we can hopefully get this fixed before Flex4 ships.

Click this obnoxiously big link to see the Jira.

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