Look at this bug on Adobe’s Jira. It’s not a show-stopper but it’s pretty annoying: FB keeps eating half the imports in any of my classes that use the flash.text.engine package, any time it adds an import. For some reason it “knows” about ElementFormat and TextElement but it doesn’t “know” about TextLine and GroupElement (and others) – all classes in the same package – so it helpfully deletes the imports, which causes errors. Nice one.
(There is a partial workaround for this: uncheck “Remove unused imports when organizing” in Preferences > Flex > Editors > ActionScript Code. But that doesn’t help with creating the imports in the first place, so I’m still manually adding imports – which breaks the principle of convenience, you know, the reason we use IDEs in the first place.)
So on the bug report, it says that the problem has been fixed in Flex Builder plugin 3.0.210014 and higher. And where, pray, does one download said plugin? Not on the Adobe site. Nowhere in fact. Apparently it’s an update via Adobe Updater. So I run it. Nothing.
So either:
- Adobe Updater is broken; or
- The standalone version of Flex Builder (which I am using) is not being kept up to date with the plugin version.
… whichever it is, it’s crap. Fix it!
adobe updater doesn’t update eclipse plugin too =(