See now, this is the sort of stuff that really bugs me about the Flash IDE sometimes.

Now personally, I don’t care about the IDE actionscript panel all that much. I regularly use FlashDevelop as my primary edtior.

The way I see it - is that this is somewhat of a cop-out on Adobe’s behalf. There are several things they could do to improve this editor, and to neglect it and just say “use another editor” is a cop-out.

Sure, you really, really should not be using it as if it is some kind of robust OO actionscript class editor. I don’t have the “solution”, but I sure think they have other options than just saying “we couldn’t get to it”.

One suggestion I think would be pretty sweet, is if they were to acquire something like TextMate or E Text Editor and integrate it somehow into the AS panel. That would be pretty cool.

I also don’t want to take away from the fact that the improvements in Flash CS4 from what I have seen - are fantastic and significant. But with a release this large, from a company as large as Adobe. Sorry to say, but I expect the best when they have huge product releases like this.

I have a laundry list of other tiny little things flash bugged me in the CS3 launch of flash last year, that I will hold off on mentioning until I see if they’ve changed them or not.

But back to Lee’s point , he is right that you really should consider looking into using an external editor. I use FlashDevelop and I love it.