Open Beta to everyone
We are proud to announce our first FDT4 Release Candidate and we have decided to open up this Beta release to everyone!
It features awesome new stunning features, additional Flex support, the Dependency Visualizer and Font Library Creator, it also includes a lot of bug fixes and improvements.
Additional Flex support
Now with full coding comfort for MXML. Use all your favourite shortcuts in MXML as well.
- MXML Formatter (CMD/CTRL+Shift+F)
- Quick Fixes in MXML (CMD/CTRL+1)
- Organize Imports in MXML (CMD/CTRL+Shift+O)
- Toggle Comment in MXML (CMD/CTRL+7)
Dependency Visualizer

Detect design or dependency problems between types or packages at a glance with the Dependency Visualizer (Window > Show View > Type/Package Dependencies*).
Font Library Creator

Create font library SWF or SWC files with just a few clicks using the new visual Font Library Creator. (New -> FDT Font Library*).
Note:
* Please reset your perspective (Window > Reset Perspective) if you don’t see the new items.
The new design
We know that FDT is not just technology. Coding comfort is more. So, apart from stunning features, we are happy to release FDT with a new brand, logo and visual. If you want to know more about the design process and see how the visual was developed, visit our collegues who created the new brand: britzpetermann.com
Download
Please notice FDT has a new license verification system, a new serial number activation is required for all users!
You will notice the new key is very long, it’s huge! Do not be frightened 😉 The good news you can simply copy and paste it to the new FDT registration dialog under the Help Menu.
You can grab the key here.
– Existing FDT4 users: If you have FDT4 already you can get the latest update from the menu item Help->Check for Updates
– New FDT4 users: Register here to receive the download instructions for FDT4 (RC1) and your Beta key. Enjoy!
Detailed report
For more information about this release, check the following report on bugs.powerflasher.com
@Bruno yeah, I thought it must be some Eclipse-related issue as well. It just wasn’t in there.
As you probably already saw, I got it resolved, just did the clean install, always better that way anyway 🙂
Ain, the menu item is standard in Eclipse. Should be there. If not register to download the standalone directly here http://www.fdt.powerflasher.com/developer-tools/fdt/fdt4-beta/download/
Unfortunately I don’t have the Help > Check for Updates menu option to get it up to RC from M3. Is this M4-only?
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@Bruno Fonzi
thank you very many =)
@Pavel: Sorry about that! We have updated the serial key number in http://fdt.powerflasher.com/getlicense Please apply new key in FDT, it will fix the issue.
@Bruno Fonzi
but refactoring is currently disabled. Can we do smth with that?
I love it – especially the new Font Library Creator – But the old starting screen was much better 😉
We are about to finalize the upgrade prices. The final release will be out ASAP most critical bugs will be fixed, you can check the status here http://bugs.powerflasher.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10000&fixfor=10013
Great job guys!
When final release is planed and how much will cost the update for existing FDT 3.5 Enterprise users that originally bought FDT 3.0 Pro?
Thank you
Great work guys. Nice and impressive tools!
@Pavel FDT 3.5 customers will receive a new license key before FDT4 final release
And how can FDT3.5-enterprise users get new email-key?
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Yooohooo amazing job guys!!!
FDT is the best tool ever!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Looks great! I’m updating from M4 as i type this.