Amethyst Feature List
This is a partial features list for Amethyst 2 Ultimate, SapphireSteel Software's Visual Studio IDE for the Adobe Flash Platform; and Amethyst 2 Personal, a free version of Amethyst (Amethyst Ultimate automatically degrades to Amethyst Personal following the free trial period unless a licence is purchased).
Amethyst 2 - Features |
Personal |
Ultimate |
| Debugger | ||
| NEW! 'Bubble' debugger (step through linked call-graph) |  |
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| NEW! Exception filtering | |
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| NEW! Step over Getter/Setter methods | |
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| Breakpoints (Simple) | |
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| Breakpoints (conditional) | |
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| Break on exception | |
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| Break on hitcount | |
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| Call stack navigation | |
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| Debug multiple SWFs concurrently | |
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| Debugger 'listen and attach' option | |
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| Immediate Window | |
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| Drill-down (variable expansion) in Watch Windows | |
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| Hovering drill-down in editor | |
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| Expression Evaluator for Watch and Immediate windows | |
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| Run/Debug via server or file | |
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| Step into/out/over | |
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| Trace console | |
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| Tracepoints | |
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| Debug windows: watch, autos, locals, callstack | |
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| Refactoring/Code Navigation | Personal | Ultimate |
| NEW! Add event-listener | |
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| NEW! Call Graph | |
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| NEW! Enhanced Search/GoTo | |
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| NEW! Implement 'Interface' wizard | |
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| NEW! Restructure document | |
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| Auto generate getter/setter (Encapsulate field) | |
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| Extract interface | |
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| Extract method | |
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| Find all references | |
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| Go to definition/Go to reference | |
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| Move class to new package | |
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| Organize Imports (add/sort/remove) | |
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| Preview before renaming | |
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| Promote local variable to parameter | |
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| Remove parameters | |
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| Rename variables, classes, methods (etc.) | |
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| Reorder parameters | |
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| SmartTags prompt to refactor | |
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| Imports added from completion list or SmartTag | |
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| Tools | Personal | Ultimate |
| NEW! Conditional compilation (C# style) using #if/#else/#endif | |
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| NEW! 'Bubble' Editors (Note, Debug, Method) | |
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| NEW! Document navigator | |
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| NEW! WebORB integration as standard | |
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| NEW! SWF Obfuscator | |
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| NEW! Profiler | |
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| NEW! Scratchpad (drag-and-drop to save reusable code snippets) | |
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| Snippet Editor to create custom snippets | |
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| Editor | Personal | Ultimate |
| NEW! Symbol highlighting | |
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| Code coloring (76 Options) | |
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| Code folding | |
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| Code formatting (23 Options) | |
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| Format entire document or selection | |
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| Auto indent/outdent | |
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| Auto insert ASDOC comments | |
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| Block comment/uncomment | |
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| Bookmarks | |
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| Bracket matching/highlighting | |
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| Collapsible regions | |
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| Line numbers (optional) | |
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| Rectangular block selection | |
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| Search/replace (code and files) | |
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| Smart or block tabs | |
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| Split-window editing | |
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| Tabbed (multi-file) editing | |
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| Undo/redo (multi-level) | |
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| Virtual space support | |
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| IntelliSense | Personal | Ultimate |
| NEW! Semantic error analysis (green squigglies) | |
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| Error indicators (Red squigglies) | |
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| Class View/Object Browser | |
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| Code reconstruction (builds library source-code by reflection) | |
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| Code snippets ('templates') with edit points | |
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| Completion lists (Tabbed: Common/All) | |
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| Completion for keywords | |
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| Completion for members | |
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| Completion for snippets | |
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| Completion for variables | |
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| Hovering tooltip information | |
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| IntelliSense for ActionScript | |
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| IntelliSense for MXML | |
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| Library references (SWC) | |
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| Project Library references | |
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| FLEX SDK Library references | |
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| Parameter completion tooltips | |
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| Project Management | Personal | Ultimate |
| NEW! Flash Forms ('Visual Flash') projects | |
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| NEW! Starling project templates | |
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| Add new or existing files and folders | |
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| Auto-Versioning | |
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| Build automation - batch/commandline support | |
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| Code behind for MXML files | |
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| Convert Flex/AIR/Flash IDE projects in original location | |
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| Convert Flash Builder Workspaces | |
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| Import existing projects (Flex/AIR/Flash) to new location | |
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| Import FLA to share codebase with Flash IDE | |
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| MSBuild configuration-dependent property pages | |
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| MSBuild support for project build order | |
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| Multi-project support in Solution Explorer | |
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| Open command prompt in selected directory | |
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| Pre- and Post-Build Events | |
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| Publish Project to URL | |
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| Deploy to mobile device | |
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| Source control support (TeamServer etc.) | |
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| Supports Visual Studio file types: HTML, text, CSS, XML etc. | |
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| Synchronize project in Solution Explorer | |
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| Visual Designer | Personal | Ultimate |
| NEW! 'Flash Forms' Visual Designer (form design for Flash, not Flex) | |
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| Flex 4.x Visual Designer | |
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| AIR Visual Designer | |
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| Component Visual Designer | |
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| "Live" controls when dragging/resizing | |
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| Align controls: top, bottom, left, right, centre, middle | |
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| Custom property editors (e.g. For Grids/Navigators) | |
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| Customizable layout grid (solid lines/dots/spacing) | |
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| Double-click control to create default event-handler | |
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| Drag+drop controls from Toolbox | |
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| Property panels: Properties, Events, Styles, Effects | |
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| Make same size: height, width, both | |
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| Snap to alignment bars | |
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| Snap to grid | |
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| Support for 3rd party controls | |
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| Undo/Redo (multi-level) | |
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| Miscellaneous | Personal | Ultimate |
| NEW! Conditional compilation (C# style) using #if/#else/#endif | |
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| NEW! Supports Visual Studio 2012 | |
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| Supports Visual Studio 2010 | |
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| Compiler Services for faster compilation | |
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| ToDo comments | |
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| User-defined comments | |
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| User tasks ('Project comments') | |
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| Supports AIR | |
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| Supports Flex 4.6 and above | |
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| Deploy to mobile devices (iOs/Android) | |