Thanks to everybody for the patience. The new Powerflasher FDT 1.5 version is available from now on. It is a free minor update for all FDT fans. We hope the development time for version 2.0 with AS3 support feels short with it.

New Features:

• Eclipse 3.2 support
• MAC help update improved
• Better UTF-8 Support
• New: Project- and workspace wide reference search
• New: Mark occurrence in the editor area
• New: External SWF Viewer (ESV) with ANT support (windows only for the first step)
• New: classpath editor (imports projectclasspaths to the Flash IDE)

Also new for everyone who was not involved in the public beta:

• New: fdt.flashCompile ANT new option failonerror="true/false"
• New: FSCommand2 added to TopLevel.as
• New: Help Panel rework, also works on mac now
• New: Quickfixes for foreign types
• New: Function Variable QF to create a method
• New: Console LineTracker for MTASC Problems(enables ProblemHover)
• New: Quick-View: Type Dependency (Ctrl-U)
• New: Texthovers and Declarations in Comments and Strings
• New: Editor "Mark Occurences"
• New: "Set Returntype" Quickfix with type-detection
• New: Search References
• New: Show variable-initializer in JavaDoc e.g. var a : String = "Hallo";
• New: TextEdit - Folding actions
• New: Other Perspectives from Flash Perspective available
• New: File associaton of AS-Files via Content Types ("ActionScript Source File")
• New: Ant-View available from Flash Perspective
• New: Parser Performance optimizations
• New: Folding of multiple singleline comments
• New: Autoclosing of blockcomments optional
• New: ANT Task "fdt.browse" opens external browser
• New: Editor Links to AS-Language Elements
• New: TODO Marker "//!"
• And of course bugfixes and small other improved things

IMPORTANT: FDT from now on needs Eclipse >= 3.1 and so is not running on 3.0.x any more!

The update is quite easy:

Launch Eclipse, Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install and select "Search for new features to install". Then mark the checkbox with the Powerflasher FDT site and its done.

We´ve made every update in the last months on the test URL for public beta test. If you participated on it, you already know some of the new features but especially the classpatheditor and the external SWF viewer will be new for all of you. So we hope that we were able to clean out all major bugs in this period but to be realistic, there might be still some. (Why does the bloggers need to be so fast)