Is there a way to use axdt with eclim? - eclipse

I've got Eclipse 3.6 + eclim set up and working for PHP and JavaScript.
As I'm slowly moving away from the Flash IDE for my actionscript projects I've sucessfully installed the — limited but working — axdt plugin for Eclipse but eclim doesn't seem to work for actionscript files.
Neither FDT nor Flash Builder nor asdt/axdt being listed anywhere on eclim's site I think as3 is not supported by eclim. Am I Right?
As of now, vrapper is helping me a lot, but is there a workaround — other than buying Flash Builder/FDT/IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate — to this situation ?
Thanks.

Sounds like you are a Linux user, otherwise you would surely know about FlashDevelop (it's experimental now, but you should be able, to an extent, to run it through Wine, too...).
Other than that, I used this for some time and it was OK for what I needed. It has some problems on top of some problems the original has, some features entirely removed, but it's still better then AXDT.
Here are some other suggestions about AS3 editor on Linux: http://flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3973 . Unfortunately, they are not as good as commercial solutions for Win / Mac.

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Haxe/OpenFL in FlashBuilder/Eclipse?

I am looking for a possible solution of developing Haxe/OpenFL applications on a Mac.
While Windows has a very good IDE, the Macs are left much weaker support.
I tried every IDE I could find for mac that has a Haxe plug-in, but they often lack basic features and are pretty outdated and buggy.
Is there a way to install Haxe SDK and have an ability to use OpenFL API on Flash Builder (4.7 would be best)? Flash Builder is based on Eclipse, maybe I can find plug-in for Eclipse?
If not, how does one write their own plug-in?
NOTE: I know of Win emulators that helps to run FD on a Mac, but I cannot have that option right now.
there is a Haxe bundle for SublimeText 2 and i think it's quite complete for Haxe development
https://github.com/clemos/haxe-sublime-bundle
Lots of developer also say that IntelliJ is a way to go http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
But i have never try it yet.
There is a list of IDEs over here:
http://haxe.org/com/ide
I'm not sure how up-to-date the list is. If you want to build an editor, consider joining this project http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cactus-ide

AVR - Can't add Programmer on Eclipse

I want to use Eclipse to develop code I will be uploading to my Atmega 2560 microcontroller. I could easily use the Arduino IDE to do this, but in my opinion, developing on Eclipse is a whole lot easier.
So, I followed this guide.
I get to the step where I have to add a programmer, but when I click on the Add button, nothing happens.
Does anyone have an idea as to what might be the problem?
The issue here is that 6.0.x series of avrdude uses a different configuration file which the avr-eclipse plugin is not able to parse. There is a ticket filed for this in the bug tracker in SourceForge.
A temporary solution would be to downgrade to avrdude 5.11.x.
Cheers.
I tried to use Eclipse for Arduino development and I followed this tutorial too but it didn't work for me. Also I couldn't find normal description of how I have to use it. From the other side so called Arduino IDE in my opinion isn't IDE it's very primitive buggy editor(looks like amateur product).
To upload my program to Atmega controller I decided to use avrdude direct from the console, where I specify programmer type and hex file that I want to upload. In this case I write program in c and use avrgcc toolchain for compiling and linking. However the question about IDE is still opened for me(the main problem for me that I don't know how to debug my code without IDE).
Also exist Atmel IDE AVrStudio. I didn'y try to use it, my I will mention it like a variant that you can try if you want.
Getting AVRDude (used by the AVR-ecplipse plugin) running on Windows with USB connected AVR programmers can be a real pain, often involving very specific driver uninstall/install sequences, such as those described at the bottom of this forum topic. I used to use Eclipse for my AVR programming, but have since moved to the new iteration of Atmel Studio. Version 6 is now available, and its relatively straight forward to get everything working well. There are a few things odd about it, but it has improved a lot since AS4.

Start using netbeans for website development

Quite a while ago I used to use eclipse (or actually Aptana) for making websites. I never really got how it worked. After my laptop crashed I decided to install netbeans hoping it would be less complex, however it is still overwhelming. I know that working with a good IDE can help out a lot, but I just find it very complex (steep learning curve).
Does anybody know a few good tutorials to help me get started with this?
BTW I will be using it mostly for building websites (php, html, css) occasionally in a more abstract way (drupal) or using a framework (Zend). However I have done some Java programming and would like to start building some apps for android or maybe even learn c# or c++ for windows 8.
I would also like to start using subversion and if possible an integrated ftp client.
Help to get me started would really be appreciated.
Wow, thats really about 5 different questions. Firstly the benefit of using an IDE (for web development) is generally for refactoring tools, a good text editor, built in web previews and a built in development server like apache or glassfish. For your purposes eclipse and netbeans will work equally well, but I suppose netbeans has a slightly less steep learning curve but both are fairly straight forward. I'm going to give you a list of links that I think will help you:
Netbeans - http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/quickstart.html
Android - http://developer.android.com/training/index.html
Windows bassed svn client - http://tortoisesvn.net/
Free SVN repository hosting - https://www.assembla.com/home
Good FTP client - http://filezilla-project.org/
I don't think there are any combined svn and ftp clients, and it doesn't really make sense to have one either. A quick note on android development that may steer your choice of IDE, Android development is generally done within eclipse using the ADT plugin. Just a few thoughts...

drag and drop environment to start developing in gwt

is there any drag and drop environment to work with GWT widgets.
or any user friendly IDE or plugin on IDE's
i remember using some thing like MyEclips for developing Hibernate was better then working with .xml files.
The Eclipse-based WindowBuilder Pro supports GWT and is now free, courtesy of Google.
I tried GWT Designer, http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/index.html, but I think for now I'll stick to code the guis myself by hand.
The main reasons are:
Sometimes, it takes a little while (longer than I can wait) to load the design mode.
Sometimes it breaks after you modify code underneath.
Sometimes, does not do what you expect it to do.
I would suggest you giving it a try and see if it works out for your needs.
In my opinion, the experience using it has been frustrating than encouraging.

Is eclipse visual editor dead?

The Eclipse Visual Editor project seems to be dead, no commits, no updates. Any one know what is happening?
Update 2: The project has been archived (i.e. dead) since June 2011 again.
Update: The project has been revived and is now under active development again.
Its pretty much dead due to a lack of developer support. Here are some recent posts from their mailing list talking about a lack of movement on the project.
What's happening? It's called NetBeans, and it's already happened.
I'm going to get voted down for this but they know it's true. I love eclipse and have used it religiously since I started Java. I'm not saying I like Netbeans, it's just all I hear whenever the concept of a Java visual editor is brought up.
The Jigloo plug-in for Eclipse is a pretty great alternative to the Visual Editor. Though still not quite as nice as the Netbeans GUI editor it is fairly robust and fully featured, especially compared to what was available in the Visual Editor plug-in. Definitely should give it a shot.
Actually NetBeans has gotten MUCH MUCH better. I've used Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ for a few years each, and NetBeans is at least as good (performance, usability & features) as the others now.
It's also improving more quickly than the others are.
They have people working full time on alternate language support, so you'll find they have the best Ruby support in the industry, and I believe Python is about to become that good as well.
Of course, Eclipse still has that crazy-cool todo list that remembers which files you worked on for each bug and can take you back to the set of files/edits for any bug you've worked on, that's really amazing to use and I don't think it's available on either of the other platforms.
--- Revision from years in the future ---
I have used Netbeans more and really have to give the award to Eclipse. The difference has been in vertical programming environments--most will target Eclipse and ignore netbeans. You rarely need these, but when you need them there is often no way around them. If Netbeans does have an equivalent, it's often buggy to the point of not being usable, generally the biggest issue is emulator support.
You won't run into these unless you are working in a specific industry--Android development is one, the primary drive was to support Eclipse, NB seems to trail. Another I've worked on is in the TV/Cable industry.
For raw java development, however, I'd still give Netbeans a little edge because it's the environment that was targeted and supported by sun.
Visual Editor is doing a new release, 1.4, on September 16. Installation instructions for the RC are here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/VE/Update
FWIW, the project did stall for a while. But there is a new, and relatively diverse group of folks working on it again. Most of the recent work is concerned with making the new release compatible with Eclipse Galileo.
It's officially dead as of May 2011. It's archived here, but slow to download and tricky to install. Instead, there's a new editor, WindowBuilder Pro.
Currentlty Google have Open Sourced the Windows Builder Pro. It seems nice
yeap,
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t91368.html
Yes, sadly, it is dead. Looking at the aforementioned email threads regarding it's revival I get the feeling that even if it does get picked up it will quickly collapse under the weight of some new requirements ("make it universal, edit everything from SWT to HTML").
WindowBuilder can be a good alternative. I had several problems with VE and I end up with WindowBuilder who worked for me perfectly.
http://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder/