Amethyst Beta 3 Released
Amethyst Beta 3 was released today! For those of you that don’t know it, it’s a Visual Studio Flex plugin. If you are looking for some other alternative you can check one of my previous posts http://www.riaspace.net/2009/01/flex-developer-tools-ides where I listed all the tools in the market available to Flex developers. This is really great news as it brings debugger with my favorite VS feature of Drilldown Debugging. To learn more go to: http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Amethyst-Beta-3-Flex-IDE-Released
These are the principle new additions in beta 3…
Integrated Debugger with:
- Breakpoints
- Step Into
- Step Over
- Step Out
- Continue
- Restart
Debug Windows
- Watch windows
- Autos
- Locals
- Call Stack
- Quick Watch
- Parameter Completion: when you call a method, its arguments are shown in a tooltip with the current argument in bold…
- In MXML you may omit ‘mx:’ in order to get code completion in tags – e..g. enter:
<bto view a completion list starting mx:BaseListData - MXML completion is case insensitive – e.g. enter bu and press Tab to add the tag:
<mx:Button
