Sapien's Primal Script IDE has totally changed my experience with Flash 7. I'm thinking of buying two copies on Dec. 31st, maybe saving one for whomever forgot to purchase during the New Year's sale. This stuff is Good.
Features I will always expect for my Actionscript development experience after using Primal Script:
1. Primal Sense (code-hinting) for the entire mx namespace, such as mx.controls, mx.core, etc.
2. Primal Sense for custom-defined classes, including methods and properties, for custom components as well. It will code-hint for static methods, typed variables, and return types too.
3. Class Browser, babeeeeee. You can browse your own custom classes and namespaces, jump right to them.
4. Save multiple projects for multiple workspace configurations.
My only feature request is code-folding, but it's not so bad when you've got a class browser (which Visual Studio and many other IDE's already support anyways).
Chafic has information about the special release sale, and a list of features and tips on getting the most out of Primal Script.
Posted by samuel at December 29, 2003 09:21 AM