SourceMate

I was checking out some of the features on the Flash Builder plug-in SourceMate. Many of the features already exist in FDT (no surprise). But SourceMate takes some of those features and does it a little better. And then there are some features in SourceMate which would be an awesome addition to FDT.  I am curious if the release version of FDT 4 will have anything like some of the features in SourceMate.

I tried to see if it was compatible with FDT.  But apparently you have to be using Flash Builder 4 The stuff which I think would be useful are:

Code Generation

* Improved Getter/Setter Generation
* Override/Implements Method Generation
* Generate Constructor From Fields
* Generate Constructor From Superclass
* Generate toString()
* Generate ASDoc Comments

Refactoring

* Extract Constant
* Extract Interface
* Extract Method
* Extract Variable
* Change Method Signature
* Convert Local Variable to Field

Metadata Features

* Metadata Content Assist
* Metadata Tag Validation
* Import/Export Tag Configuration

Code Templates (i.e. Code Snippets)

* Available via Content Assist and Templates View
* Works in Both MXML and AS Files
* Create Custom Templates
* Import, Export, and Share Templates

Miscellaneous

* Disable All trace() Statements
* ASDoc Generation Wizard
* Generate Ant build.xml from Project Settings
* TODO, FIXME, and XXX Task Markers
* Generate Event Handler in Actionscript

If the release version of FDT4 doesn’t get any of these new features, I may have to look into using Flash Builder with SourceMate to see which is the better IDE.