Comments on: Are You Using IntelliJ IDEA Flex Support?

By: Nikos

Nikos — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:58:19 +0000

IDEA 10 is getting there for flex, but I’m constantly on the forums with minor issues >:

By: nicity

nicity — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:30:38 +0000

Please, ensure debug player installed (from Flex SDK) in order for the flex debugging to work

By: polesen

polesen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:11:36 +0000

@randy:

Sorry to hear your trouble. Don’t give up just yet though. I am so glad, that we continued with idea flex support through the v7 and up to v8. In the latest v8.1.2, it is my opinion, that the flex support is the best around now. Of course, I am coloured, as I mostly use idea for all other stuff too.

We also got the debugger working recently. We hadn’t tried in a long time, and not long ago, we gave it a go again. And worked

With respect to maven support, it also works quite nicely now. The idea maven project import is still best of breed. Which flex compiler plugin are you using in maven build? I am using flex-mojos v3, which idea has build in support for importing to an idea flex module. Works!

Flex-mojos have moved quite a bit around with respect to source and repositories. It is now located at sonatype. Look here: http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/flex-dev-sect-creating-with-archetype.html

By: Randy Wilson

Randy Wilson — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:03:42 +0000

I’m a Flex newbie, and I was hoping I could use IntelliJ 8 and avoid FlexBuilder. But alas, although the tutorials that JetBrains supplies do run, the debugger doesn’t do anything (all breakpoints appear to be ignored). And there is no hint on how to get maven to work with IntelliJ for Flex. We have a project that compiles fine via Maven but won’t compile in IntelliJ due to a bug, which means it’s impossible to run the Flex code. I’ve spent all day battling it, and I’m about ready to give up and write a java swing app instead.

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By: polesen

polesen — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:24:25 +0000

@ed: You are right. Both in that you need to buy flexbuilder to get the license and that it seems way over priced. And strange to bundle a license for components with an IDE.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:40:13 +0000

Has anyone been able to use flex charting with flex 3 sdk in Intellij or a way to use the flex 2 charting license with flex 3 sdk? It looks like the new adobe pricing structure requires you to purchase Flex Builder 3 Professional which seems way over priced..

By: jeffrand0mluser

jeffrand0mluser — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:28:54 +0000

Flex Builder 3 is great for Flex – IDEA is great for Java. Yeah, it sucks you have to buy both, but I’m sure IDEA will get up to speed and surpass FB within the next 6 mos or so. I’m excited for that, as I’m sure others here are as well.

By: Den

Den — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:26:50 +0000

I use IDEA v8 for flex in our project. We don’t use mxml – only AS3. It’s a big pleasure to keep java and AS source in one place )We only have to write some ant scripts for compiling flex source and styles. Debugger works both with flex and java in one frame (8090 ver.). And , sorry, I hate Eclipse and FB3 based on it.

With respect from Belarus.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:39:01 +0000

I just started using Flex, coming from many years of server-side Java. FlexBuilder is truly “the suck” compared to IDEA. Sure the GUI builder is nice, but I need to write/navigate/refactor code! You’re not alone, and I hope JetBrains puts some more effort into Flex support. Whatever they touch usually turns out well, so I have high hopes for IDEA 8′s Flex support.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:43:16 +0000

I remember trying IntelliJ v5 for the first time and being blown away by it’s completeness and support for Java and have been using it everyday since. Since starting with flex things have definitely become a little better in v7 at least much better than v6:)

In terms of seamless integration…it’s far from complete. I find myself having to use a seperate ant build for compiling all of the .mxml and .as files then IDEA for the remaining part of the App. Hibernate, Tomcat etc support is great…So i think i’ll stick with it for the time being. Would be nice for tighter integration b/w .as files and pojos etc at the moment it’s like rolling the dice and hoping everything compiles and runs in the browser.

My other concern is whether there will be any support for things like Cairngorm?? This looks like it’s shaping up to be the framework of choice for flex dev.

Tried FB2 and FB3 trials…very painful especially on a slow mac.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:28:14 +0000

Disregard my previous question… It seems the stack trace is there and is fairly obvious.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:23:56 +0000

I agree it’s a bit half baked. Based on IDEA’s track record, however, I am very much hoping that it will be what I want in the end. I feel, IntelliJ is the best IDE out there. I am really not excited about the thought of having to buy Flex Builder.

Is there a way to get a stack trace in the debugger when you’re at a break point? (It doesn’t seem like that works in flex debugging mode)

By: codecraig

codecraig — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:51:19 +0000

Here’s an interview about IntelliJ IDEA 8:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/intellij_8_M1

By: polesen

polesen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:27:38 +0000

To be fair, IDEA8 *is* way better than v7. And it does have auto-generate setters and supports some navigation. It also understands mxml, supports navigations in mxml etc. There are just still some of all the basic stuff missing, which really spoils the party.

By: Charlie Hubbard

Charlie Hubbard — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:36:45 +0000

Bummer, I was excited and encouraged about IntelliJ 8 support for Flex. It finally looked like it was going to be a decent option to replace FB3. FB3 works, but it sucks. Especially the debugger.

IntelliJ 7 Flex support is non-existent for Flex projects. Flex compiler is very dependent on what constitutes the main application without it the compiler can’t say what errors are there. If a file is not attached to the main application errors are never detected in FB3. It’s like it doesn’t exist. In IntelliJ since there is no project description/module creation it seems like it couldn’t operate correctly. Actionscript editing seems more based on the Javascript support than Flex. But, if we expect all of these features like refactoring, auto-completion, runtime error feedback, or a descent runtime debugger you have to create a project description to control the compiler.

I was really hoping for auto-generate property functions (ala getters/setters) something FB3 doesn’t do. I forgot how much time I save myself with Java using that feature.

By: polesen

polesen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:01:08 +0000

About rename, I was talking about rename file Clazz.as to Clazz2.as, which does not rename constructor nor class name.

By: nicity

nicity — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:52:23 +0000

Thank you for the constructive critic. I wish you provide particular examples when rename class / method does not work.

By: bokel

bokel — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:38:45 +0000

My reception always was, that JetBrains builds exceptional quality products. That’s why i bought it, when v7 came out. Flex was advertized as a working feature at this time already. As the other guys said, it was a joke really. I dont think, that JetBrains is doing themselfs a favor, if they proceed like that. Unless they want to ripoff Flex developers.

By: melix

melix — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:26:00 +0000

Hi,

I’m not using the Flex support in IDEA for several reasons :

1. It was announced as a facet in IDEA 7, and yet, you can’t do anything but editing action script. To be brief, that’s not Flex support
2. Planned for IDEA 8, which makes it mandatory to upgrade, which is too much for something announced for v7
3. unusable yet, as you said