FDT 3 Actionscript Editor – Blog

Since the well received release of FDT 3.5, we have been preparing to spread the word about our great product globally. The time has come!

You can meet us at the FDT booth at  FITC Amsterdam in February and at the FITC Toronto in April

We will have an exhibition and tutorial at the FFK Flash Forum Konferenz in May in Cologne.

Be sure to watch for  more events in the coming months scheduled in San Franscisco, Brazil, Japan and Los Angeles.

This is a great opportunity to get the latest news about FDT 3.5 directly from the FDT team and to find out more about what to expect in FDT in the future!

And that’s not all!
Purchase a ticket for the FFK or one of the FITC events and receive a FDT Pure license for free! Come to our booth and ask for more information on how to get it.

Here we go, FDT version 3.5 is out now! After two beta phases and a lot of  feedback and support from the FDT community we have just released the free update to FDT 3.5.

This is a great leap forward  especially for Flex developers. You can now use the advanced Autocompletion features that you might know from the FDT ActionScript Editor in your MXML files also. Auto complete MXML tags, functions, events, AS code or use the code templates to insert MXML and AS code very quickly. Make use of the great refactoring and search features also in your Flex files now.

We have also added a lot new Features to the AS Editor like Event Type Autocompletion, improved Quick Outline, inline XML and a completely rewritten Debugger with new features.

Definitely check out the FDT 3.5 release video where I demonstrate some of the major new improvements. Here is a list of all the features introduced in this update.

This update is free for every FDT 3 user, so simply go to the download page or use the update site to update your copy of FDT now.

Happy coding everybody,
Michael

One more reason to be @FlashCampBrasil !

We are proud to announce a FDT Workshop with Gabriel Peart for this event.

Getting started with FDT, configurations, unique features, tips, tricks and there will be lots of surprises for you: t-shirts, free license, discounts …

The workshop will be January 16, the Flash Camp Brazil in the beautiful city of Maceió, Brazil.

This is definitely a Flash event to not be missed!

Time is running out, hurry up and register !

Firstly, we wish you all a happy new year! And to have something good to begin the new year with, I’m already bringing great news on this very first day of 2010. There will be a major event at the University of Hawaii, which will be broadcasted online thanks to John Barrett and the Hawaii Flash User Group

Date and Time: January 6, 2010 from 6:00pm – 7:00pm Hawaii Time Zone. If you don’t live in hawaii, please check the time in your area http://www.timezonecheck.com

Michael will be presenting FDT not only to the eager community of Hawaii but in fact to the whole world via webcast.

John explained, “this is not a meeting to miss!” – showing that he is just as excited as we are. Taking every chance to show our appreciation, there will some special surprises at the end of the meeting!

Check out the event details here and follow the presentation online: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/fdt

Again, Happy New Year!

And the winners are…

We’re happy to announce that Billy White won the FDT raffle on this years TexFlex. Welcome aboard, feel free to share your thoughts with us

Not too long from today, on January 15/16, the Flash Camp Brazil will take place in the beautiful city of Maceió, Brazil.

We’re glad to support the Brazilian community, amongst other things, with another fun competition: you can blog and tweet about the event and win an FDT Enterprise license. Simply use #fdt #flashcampbrasil when tweeting, and register here:
http://www.fdt.powerflasher.com/flashcampbrasil — be creative

Flash Camp Brasil will be a big event with international speakers; we’re proud to be part of it!

FDT 3.5 Beta 2 introduces full Autocompletion support for the MXML Editor. Use your favorite shortcut CTRL + Space everywhere in the MXML Editor like in CDATA scripts, in quotes or curly braces of MXML tags to auto complete AS3 code.

The FDT Search now also finds search terms in your MXML files and will display them properly in the search view. In addition we have added wizards for creating Top Level Variables and Functions and a lot new Code Templates for Metadata Tags, Flex Lifecycle methods, Vector.<> and so forth. Take a look at the list of new features introduced in Beta 2 and Beta 1 here.

This is the last beta update before we will release the final version of FDT 3.5 currently planned for January.

Your support is highly appreciated. If you find any bugs or have any feature requests, please report them at bugs.powerflasher.com

Update FDT now to 3.5 Beta 2 or download the standalone Beta Version:

Beta update site: http://fdt.powerflasher.com/update_beta/

FDT 3.5 Enterprise [Mac Cocoa] [Mac Carbon] [Win]
FDT 3.5 Professional [Mac Cocoa] [Mac Carbon] [Win]
FDT 3.5 Pure [Mac Cocoa] [Mac Carbon] [Win]

Happy coding everybody,
Michael

We proudly supported LA Flash with licenses of FDT and are now glad to announce the winners.

On the LAFlashapaloozastock IV, Susie Karasic and Jochen Greiner were the two lucky winners. We appreciate the dedication and contribution to the community and we’re glad to give you your personal licenses of FDT. Let us all know what you think; we wish you happy coding!

Flashpitt: (http://www.flashpitt.com/)

Many of you have been waiting for an official announcement of the winners of the comment competition about Flashcamp Pittsburgh, the Flashpitt. The winners themselves have been notified, and they were all “psyched” about FDT. I’m glad to announce that Javier Fadul and Kevin Suttle each won an FDT Professional license and Bittersweet Harvest won an FDT Enterprise license for their best comment. Thanks to Val, the camp was really successful and we’re all looking forward to next year’s event.

RIA Unleashed: (http://www.riaunleashed.com/)

RIA Unleashed was a huge success with over 300 attendees from New England and around the U.S. We, that is Brian Rinaldi and the FDT team, is happy to announce the winners of the comment competition: The FDT licenses go to Jim O’Keefe and Paul Kukiel. Have fun, stay tuned, and let us know what you think.

Flash Camp Philly (http://flashcamp.pfpaug.org/)

Rob and us are going to announce the winners as soon as possible. Stay tuned!

Powerflasher & The Rich Media Institute are happy to announce the first official FDT online training with Alan Klement.

This course is divided into three sections.

1. The first set of lessons provide an introduction to FDT for beginners, covering topics such as creating projects and how to efficiently write Actionscript code.
2. The second set of lessons include an intermediate exploration of FDT, demonstrating workflow features including workspace navigation, the creation and use of external libraries and SWCs, and some of the various ways to customize FDT to further accelerate your development.
3. Finally, the advanced lessons explore using FDT’s integrated debugger, writing ANT build scripts and the world around FDT.

Enjoy !

Online Training Link: http://richmediainstitute.com/ondemand/fdt