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Aptana adds AIR Support

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Posted in | Posted on 06-12-2007 | 3,566 views

So before I even go into this blog entry - how many people think we are going to have a ton of "air" puns now that Apollo has been renamed???

So that aside, the very cool (and free) Aptana plugin has added support for AIR. You can now build your AIR HTML projects and do both compiling and packaging all from Eclipse.

Freaking sweet.

It gets even better though. You can supply mutiple AIR SDK locations. So in the future when 1.1, or 1.5, or whatever, is released, you can work with both on your system.

You even get an option to include popular AJAX frameworks when creating your project. Unfortunately this doesn't the best one, Spry. (Ok, so maybe I'm biased.)

You even get code hinting for runtime.flash, which if you remember from my earlier Apollo posts, is how you access the "extra" stuff from JavaScript.

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NateDog said on 06-12-2007 at 9:09 AM #
This is phat and pretty effing tight!
Scott Stroz said on 06-12-2007 at 9:12 AM #
Me likey Apatana.
Scott Stroz said on 06-12-2007 at 9:21 AM #
How to you check to see if you have this as part of Aptana? I juts checked for updates in Eclipse and received a message there were no new updates and I have not updated in a while.
Raymond Camden said on 06-12-2007 at 9:28 AM #
This got me to. Don't use the main URL. Use:

http://update.aptana.com/install/air/3.2/

for your updates. (Although my main Aptanta was old too.)
Scott Stroz said on 06-12-2007 at 9:34 AM #
Got it...now to check and see if that did anything to my old install.

I love Aptana. I use it for CSS and JS. I only wish there was a way in CFE to specify using Aptana when inside of <script> or <style> blocks.
Matt Williams said on 06-12-2007 at 10:43 AM #
Ray,

We really appreciate you AIRing your experiences with the new Apollo Beta. Unlike some people's blogs that tend to be nothing but hot AIR, yours is always informative and educational.
Erik-Jan said on 06-12-2007 at 1:21 PM #
Just downloaded Aptana after reading your blog post! Really love the HTML and CSS options. But is there a way to use the Aptana editor to edit all HTML and CSS, and let CFE handle all Coldfusion tags? Because, let's face it, you often need both on the same page! That would be sweet!
Raymond Camden said on 06-12-2007 at 1:27 PM #
As far as I know, no. You can't use two editors on one page.

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