So first off, thank you everyone who came to see my talk at MAX, and thanks to everyone for all the great feedback about Flex Builder! One of the comments I heard the most though, was “Wow, I didn’t know you could do that in FlexBuilder?!?!?” so here’s a cheat sheet of cool editor features (in no real order).
1.) Open type (Ctrl-Shift-T)* – this lets you browse all the types (AS classes/interfaces, MXML files) in your project and quickly open them.
2.) Goto Definition (F3/Ctrl-click on identifier)* – quickly jump to the definition of an identifier (type/variable/function).
3.) Quick Outliner (Ctrl-O)* – get the outline view as a pop-up window, with the added ability to type and filter down to the function/member variable that you’re looking for.
4.) Context sensitive help (F1 on an identifier/tag) – for an MXML tag, function or class/interface, show the help entry for that item in the Eclipse Help Panel.
5.) Open context sensitive help (Shift-F2 on an identifier) – for an MXML tag, function or class/interface, show the help entry for that item in the integrated Help browser. This will most likely open a new browser window.
6.) Jump to matching brace (Ctrl-Shift+P)* – jumps to the matching brace if your cursor is to the left or right of a given balanced brace.
7.) Hover over an identifier – when you put your mouse over a variable, we display its type. When you hover over a function, we display its return type (if it has one).
8.) Add CDATA block (Ctrl-Shift-C) in MXML – wraps a given selection in a CDATA block
9.) Event type hinting (Ctrl-space) – addEventListener( will display all the events that are relevant targets for a listener function.
10.) Fold all functions/ASDoc comments/comments in ActionScript – With folding enabled, right-click on the vertical gutter, drill down to “Folding”
11.) Organize imports (Ctrl + Shift + O)* – Sorts the imports in ActionScript files, removes duplicates and consolidates when needed
Okay, that’s a small list. Enjoy!
Oh yeah, I’ll post some slides and code examples from my presentation in the next couple days
* – same functionality as the JDT
Thanks for the shortcut list and good job on the preso at MAX. I do a lot of copy and paste, and have a slight hiccup with the Ctrl-Click being assigned to “Goto Definition”. Funny thing was I didn’t know what was going on until I found about the Ctrl-Click shortcut.
Here is how the sequence goes:
1. I double click on a word, it highlights the whole word
2. I use my left hand to hit CTRL-C to copy, but i don’t let up on the CTRL button only the C button.
3. I navigate to the paste word. And when I go to double click on the word to paste over it does the “Goto Definition”
This is a small quirk that messes with my workflow about 10% of the time. I can live with it but maybe it might give some feedback for future hot keys.
Yeah, I can see how that might be a problem. Looks like Eclipse allows you to change that hot key, but it doesn’t look like Flex Builder likes that. I’ll file a bug. Thanks!
I too run into the Copy-Paste/Goto Definition problem. I couldn’t change the shortcut to something else, but I turned off “Support hyperlink style navigation” and that worked for my needs.
Some commands on the Mac version are mixed between the Apple-key & the Control key.
Chris, can you let me know which commands are mixed? Code Completion is one that comes to mind, but that’s to avoid conflicts with Apple’s Spotlight
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