FDT Templates for PureMVC, Spark, and ASDocs

FDT is an awesome development tool to code Flash and Flex projects.  I love the ability to create custom templates.  I’ve recently been updating some old templates which I created for PureMVC a while ago.  Over time I have added new templates for classes which I now regularly use such as the AsyncCommand and AsynMacroCommand.  I also added stuff for using the StateMachine within my Mediator template.  One of the more recent changes is adding a lot of ASDoc style commenting to all the PureMVC related templates.  Adding comments and plenty of links to the PureMVC documentation for all methods and properties utilized in the classes.  This is good so that people new to using PureMVC will have an easier time by using the templates.  Secondly it will make documenting the code using these templates easy to do by generating the ASDocs for the project.  You can grab this template for PureMVC here:

puremvc_templates

I’ve also been creating some new templates for things new to Flex 4 such as creating skin classes and associated parts and bits that go along with that.  Things like:

• Skin Parts
• Skin Classes
• Skin States

I’ve also created some templates which help in better commenting code.  It’s easy for developers to overlook commenting code.  On top of that many times developers don’t know the proper way to comment the code so that it shows up properly in the ASDocs.  I have added some templates specifically for creating comments for:

• Event Constants
• Event Metadata
• Styles
• Getters and Setters
• Examples
• Constructors

You can get the templates for Spark components and comments here:

spark_and_comment_templates

Hope they help you.