FDT 4 Milestone 3
The FDT team is proud to announce the release of FDT 4 Milestone 3. This milestone release is dedicated to Flex 4 and includes support for the new MXML 2009 language features like Spark, FXG, States and the new language tags.
Milestone 3 Presentation
Watch the recorded session of Michael Plank presenting the new features of FDT4 M3
Flex 4 Project Types and Templates
In milestone 2 we've introduced the new SDK and project management which features project types, project templates and a simplified SDK management. In M3 we could leverage this new system and simply add the new project types and templates for Flex 4. We are also shipping the Flex 4 SDK and adding it to your installed SDKs automatically.
Flex 4 States
Flex 4 introduced a nice new way to define and use states in your MXML view classes. FDT 4 M3 fully supports this new concept and offers autocompletion, occurrence marking as well as rename refactoring for states.
FXG Support
Make use of the new FXG declarative graphics format either by using external .fxg files or directly inside your MXML classes.
New Language Tags
Use the new MXML 2009 language tags like "Declarations", "Definition", "Library", "Reparent" etc.
Download
- Existing FDT4 users: If you have FDT4 already you can get the latest update from the Eclipse menu item Help->Check for Updates
- New FDT4 users: If new to FDT4, you can download the latest milestone release standalone here for a 30 days trial.
- Current FDT3 users: If you hold a FDT 3 license already, either Pure, Professional or Enterprise, you can run full FDT4 Beta features until released. Enjoy!
- New FDT 3.5 users: If you bought FDT 3.5 after 25 January 2010 FDT 4 is free for you!
Notes
If you have installed FDT 4 M2, please delete the FDT folder located in the users directory. We've made small changes to the project type and template XML files. FDT will copy the new files automatically after you've deleted the FDT folder.
