[osflash] Powerflasher FDT

Ralf Bokelberg info at bokelberg.de
Tue Jun 28 01:17:43 PDT 2005


Huh, i didn't even  know, there was a difference, thanks.
That's why my english mother-in-law always turns red when i was trying 
to praise her food :)

Ralf.

Ubi De Feo wrote:

> I guess ralf meant "awesome", not "awful", because that's what FDT  
> looks like.
> At the moment I'm just a starter, but I accomplish better results on  
> FAMES day by day.
> I like this new way of working, and probably will buy FDT when it's out.
> my workflow would be seriously improved, and this is key when you  have 
> big projects and short time.
> 
> anyway...
> ASDT stays great and will keep getting better.
> FDT is something we haven't had a real chance to try
> time will tell
> 
> congratulations to both teams
> 
> ciao.ubi
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 27, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Ralf Bokelberg wrote:
> 
>> Hi Carlo,
>> i appreciate your efforts to create a better eclipse plugin. FDT  
>> looks really awful and is a serious competitor of ASDT. It will  
>> surely be of great influence on the development of ASDT.
>>
>> Just to get one thing straight:
>>
>> [quote]
>> We were together with Ralf the first programmers on ASDT besides  
>> Peter Schreiber. ... and I think that pushed ASDT for miles.
>> [/quote]
>>
>> The founder of the project and author of most of the ASDT's code is  
>> Peter Schreiber. Even if Nico contributed some code, he surely  would 
>> not insist on calling his influence like "pushing ASDT for  miles". In 
>> fact, without ASDT, FDT would have never been happen. It  would be 
>> nice, to acknowledge this fact.
>>
>> Anyway, i'm looking forward to final Version of FDT.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>> Carlo Blatz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi OSFlashers,
>>> time to say something, he? :) I'm Carlo owner of Powerflasher and  so 
>>> one of the guys behind FDT. In the name of the full team - I  thank 
>>> you for the big interest in FDT. I want to clarify the specs  and 
>>> answer all questions to make it more transparent. We were  together 
>>> with Ralf the first programmers on ASDT besides Peter  Schreiber. The 
>>> 0.0.7 release was heavily influenced by us by  integrating 
>>> templating, quicknavigation, editor context menu and  key-binding. 
>>> Also the MTASC support was fully integrated by us  against the wish 
>>> of some ASDT members (at that time). That was our  attempt to combine 
>>> our development tools with ASDT and I think  that pushed ASDT for miles.
>>> Unfortunately the structure and speed in the project was not  
>>> acceptable for us. We needed a more advanced product faster and  had 
>>> to develop more independently than it was possible at that  time. To 
>>> accelerate the progress with our possibilities as  commercial 
>>> company, we had to stop developing at ASDT and came  back to our own 
>>> development.
>>> To show the dimension: ASDT has about 100 classes. FDT has over  600 
>>> and is a real consistent Eclipse Plugin.
>>> THERE IS NO LINE OF CODE OF ASDT IN FDT! But we like ASDT and the  
>>> way that the flashcommunity comes back to start working together  
>>> like in the pioneer days. FDT was originally planed and developed  
>>> just for us. But we know that every professional flashdeveloper  need 
>>> such a tool and that was the reason why we publish it. It  became 
>>> what we always dreamed of - working in Flash just like JDK.  It was 
>>> not planed to publish it, but in the dimension it is  acutally, we 
>>> just have to share :). It will be not expensive (more  info next 
>>> month). So everyone has the choice to decide between  ASDT and FDT. 
>>> OpenSource will save the world - but this time it  made definitly 
>>> more sense for us to develop it by own. You can see  the result in 
>>> the near future. We can also meet together with Nico  Zimmerman the 
>>> mainprogrammer behind FDT in NY at the FlashForward  to discuss and 
>>> ofcourse we´ll try to answer all questions here.  Carlo Blatz
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