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To get things going here, I thought I’d post a little about my build process and some tools I’ve been using. Yea it’s not a very interesting topic but whatever, it’ll be useful to have a record of whenever I need to setup my environment again.

First off, I’m no longer using FlexBuilder since my trial period is about over. I’ll eventually purchase a license and use the plugin version but in the meantime I’m getting by with just the Flex SDK and Eclipse. I liked FlashDevelop a lot and understand it now supports Flex 2 but these days I’m doing all my work on a Mac and Eclipse is such a nice IDE especially with some great plugins such as Subclipse.

For things like syntax coloring, code folding, and class outlines, associating ActionScript files with the Eclipse Java editor will do the trick. It’s not ideal and the way it automatically indents code behaves weird at times but it’s ok for now. To handle MXML files, I have the Web Standard Tools plugin installed which supports XML Schema. Unfortunately there is no officially released MXML Schema so for now I have been using one written by Tom Chiverton.

For building I’m just using Ant build scripts along with a configuration file.

Anyways that’s basically been my build setup the past few weeks. It might all change when I eventually get around to trying out Adobe’s recently released Ant tasks or compiler shell. I’ve also played a bit with Peter Martin’s integration of FlexUnit and Ant which is interesting and want to look into more.

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