I am mostly quite enamored with Flex builder. Having it built on Eclipse was a brilliant move by Adobe. I also use CF-Eclipse for most of my CF development work. (I haven’t even installed Dreamweaver on my new laptop yet.)
With all that being said, there are a few things that I wish for in future versions….
1. Backspace support in intelisense. I have very fast fingers… too fast sometimes but I use the intelisense feature quite extensively in FlexBuilder. Mostly I use it to keep from fat fingering property and variable names. Being fast fingered means that I often type ahead of the intelisense and if you type past the point of matching characters in the intelisense, the drop-down list disappears. It would be nice if perhaps it would alert you, select the closest match, leave the box open but yet you continue typeing. The fact that the box disappears is rather frustrating especially when you consider the fact that in most cases if you do provide a property or method that is not in the list, it is also not valid so Flex builder is going to throw an error anyway. I find it frustrating to have to backspace and delete the last “”.”" in order to get the intelisense list back.
2. My wish for CF-Eclipse is … well funny thing, a better intelisense. It would be very handy if the editor could provide a list of my methods and properties inside of a CFC whenever I dot notate an instantiated instance in CFScript. This information is available in the services browser so perhaps there is a way to integrate this into the editor.
