[Edit: there's a workaround for the preferences issue here]

I’ve been literally sucked up into a black hole of work recently (hence the obvious lack of activity on FlexStuff.co.uk), but not to the point I couldn’t check out the brand new Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 and its counterpart Flash Catalyst Beta 2 (like all good geeks I like novelties). So I took a couple of hours to see how the two of them behaved with CatalystBuilderSync and for what I’ve seen so far it’s still all good, with the usual caveats (not all your Flash Builder 4 code will necessarily play well in Catalyst). It looks like my approach remains entirely valid and I suspect it’ll remain valid even after Catalyst 1.0 release, but I can be wrong and obviously Adobe doesn’t warmly encourage this approach according to Andrew Shorten’s (excellent) article: Exploring Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder workflows:

Other workflows

Whilst not an official list of recommended workflows, the approaches described in this article are all supported within the current versions of the Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder.

There are a number of third-party tools and alternative workflows that you might like to consider as you work with Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder; these can often improve productivity further for advanced developers. Note, however, that some of these tools may use unsupported or non-recommended approaches that may not work with future versions of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder.

So CatalystBuilderSync works well, BUT (of course there has to be a but) unfortunately Adobe limited one thing in Catalyst: there’s no right-click available anymore in Catalyst’s code view. Which means you can’t manually refresh the content of your project folder nor access Catalyst’s preferences in order to activate the Automatic Refresh (as explained in this previous post). There are a couple workarounds (like switching back and forth between design and code view or saving Catalyst project then choosing “Revert” in the file menu) but it’s a bit of a shame as we’re not children and I don’t really see the point of removing this functionality (now I’m also doomed to use the system’s default browser which is all but a convenience for me). I guess there must be somewhere in Catalyst some .ini file to edit (after all Catalyst is just another Eclipse distro) but I must say I don’t have a clue where this might be.
I’ll keep searching when I have the time but if someone has a suggestion I’d love to hear it. Now the good thing is CatalystBuilderSync is still working and it’s even more useful now with all the new Catalyst’s functionalities.

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