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Plugins FlexBuilder needs

boolean inverter

Select a block of code, hit a keystroke or a button, and every true/false is inverted.

inverter

Inline Errors/Warnings/Exceptions

I would love to be able to hide my Problems view and simply see in-line problems. Sure, the Problems view would still be useful for tracking down problems in different files, but 95% of the time, this is what I want.

xcode inline problems

Unified Sidebar

I hate to keep loving on Xcode, but I’m a fan of their unified sidebar. Instead of Eclipse’s approach of making a different view for every possibility, Xcode, slaps them all in the sidebar, basically mimicking the functionality of most desktop mail clients. It’s much cleaner than Eclipse, and you don’t have to constantly bounce around between perspectives.

xcode inline problems

I realize the irony of a developer complaining about missing features in an open source project that has plugin functionality, but good god it’s hard to write plugins for Eclipse.

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2 Responses to “Plugins FlexBuilder needs”

  1. Robert Bak Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 5:38 am

    Just a small point – if you roll over the error or bug icon on the left of the line number you get a tooltip with the error description, not exactly what you propose, but better than looking in the Problems view.

  2. Dennis Falling Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    @Robert Bak:

    Right. I was never too fond of the mouse-hover, mainly because of the delay. I’m also fighting the lovely SDK-14794 bug right now which prevents the gutter lines, breakpoints, and warnings/errors from scrolling.

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