TODO_FIXME plugin for Flex Builder 2

if you want to see TODO and FIXME on task view, check
this out, Dirk did a great job.

more flexbuilder short cut key

1. Ctrl +Shift after : in MXML tag

2.Ctrl+Shift+ Space. inside function () to see parameters

Eclipse 3.3: New and Improved

source :here

The highlights are:

* Label coloring for Java elements (enable it in Java > Appearance).
* Quick Access (Ctrl+3) for navigating around to a view or preference page.
* Triple click on a line to select the complete line, drag and drop text. This is very handy when using the mouse, but I am not using the mouse that often in Eclipse though.
* The new Java 6 debugging features rock. Introspecting references is really handy when trying to analyze memory leaks or weird object interactions.
* The Plug-in Development Environment is a lot more advanced. Code completion has become something people expect in Eclipse (it's everywhere), and the new user interface looks very nice.
* Specialized downloads for new users. This makes it a lot easier to try out the new Web Tools or C++ development environment. Just download and unzip, and you are good to go.
* No more mucking around in eclipse.ini to prevent perm space memory errors on Sun JVMs. This is now done automatically on Windows.
* Improved maximizing and minimizing (tiling editors is preserved when maximized) improves reduces the amount of useless whitespace.

What's cool in Eclipse 3.3?

source :http://techfeed.net/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/25/Whats-cool-in-Eclipse-33

http://help.eclipse.org/stable/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/whatsNew/platform_whatsnew.html

Expanded Undo options. You can now undo many more things. From the docs: "When you manipulate projects, folders, or files, you now have the ability to undo and redo the changes you have made. This includes resource creation, deletion, move, copy, and rename." Also: "Undo is now available for many task and bookmark operations. When you create, update, add, or delete a task or bookmark, you now have the ability to undo that change."

Compare editor improvements. Probably my favorite feature in Eclipse is the local history comparison. This is no replacement for a real SCM system, but it does come in handy sometimes. You can even select two different files in your Navigator and compare differences between them. Eclipse 3.3 has some cool improvements to the editor you use to compare/replace between two versions of a file. From the docs: "The contents of compare editors are now kept in sync with other editors currently open on the same file. Comparisons that used to take a long time now take a matter of seconds, thanks to a new text differencing algorithm. Many of your favorite editor commands are now available in compare editors, including find/replace, show whitespace characters, show line numbers, and the Show In sub-menu.

Keys preference page improved. One thing that has always been a pain in the butt is editing shortcut key bindings. It looks like they improved this. In the past, you had to really monkey with it sometimes to get an edited key binding to stick. What I would usually do is add a new one with the key binding I wanted, and then delete the default command that had the key binding I didn't want to use. It appears that you can now just plain edit these, with no more monkey business. :)

Drag/drop files into Eclipse. A long requested and missing feature in Eclipse was the ability to open a file in Eclipse by dragging and dropping it into Eclipse from the file system. This now works.

Spell checking! Source code can now be spell checked, and this feature is enabled by default. However, I'm not seeing this work in CFEclipse...maybe this is something that has to be enabled by the plug-in author?

Text drag/drop. A feature that is often implemented in plug-ins but was not available by default in Eclipse is drag and dropping selected text around your editor. This is now a feature in Eclipse.

Page scrolling. In an editor, hold down control and scroll with the mouse wheel. This will scroll down page at a time, very handy for large amounts of source code in one file.

Oh, and by the way, CFEclipse 1.3.1.5 does support Eclipse 3.3. However, Flex Builder 2 does not support Eclipse 3.3, according to Flex team member Mike Morearty. Flex Builder 3 will run on Eclipse 3.3, however.

Eclipse Keyboard Tricks

source : here
Found these in the Tips and Tricks section of the Workbench User Guide in the help:

Finding a string incrementally
Use Edit > Incremental Find Next (Ctrl+J) or Edit > Incremental Find Previous (Ctrl+Shift+J) to enter the incremental find mode, and start typing the string to match. Matches are found incrementally as you type. The search string is shown in the status line. Press Ctrl+J or Ctrl+Shift+J to go to the next or previous match. Press Enter or Esc to exit incremental find mode.

Go to last edit location
Navigate > Go to Last Edit Location (Ctrl+Q) takes you back to the place where you last made a change. A corresponding button markedﾠ is shown in the toolbar. If this toolbar button does not appear in your perspective, you can add it by selecting Window > Customize Perspective > Other > Editor Navigation.


Shortcuts for manipulating lines
All text editors based on the Eclipse editor framework support editing functions, including moving lines up or down (Alt+Arrow Up and Alt+Arrow Down), copying lines (Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Up and Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Down), inserting a new line above or below the current line (Ctrl+Shift+Enter and Shift+Enter), and converting to lowercase or uppercase (Ctrl+Shift+Y and Ctrl+Shift+X).

Exporting Archived Files from Eclipse

source:http://www.danvega.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/22/Exporting-Archived-Files-from-Eclipse

vi eclipse plugin

name:viPlugin, update site: http://satokar.com cur version 1.5.1

HELP! My FlexBuilder won’t start! No worries, try this …

i have same issue, see here for detail.

go to:

[workspace directory]/.metadata/.plugins/com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel/searchCache

backup the directories in there that end with “.index”. zip them up and put them somewhere safe. then delete the directories. leave the file “catalog.xml”.

start flexbuilder. it should work.

The problem is that the lucene index was corrupted or lost, probably during a failed FlexBuilder shutdown. So when FB starts up and it tries to load the lucene index it fails horribly and you can’t use it anymore. Hmm … maybe the FB team can add a “try … catch” block and save us the horror? :)

Make sure your log file has an error that says something like this:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: [workspace]\.metadata\.plugins\com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel\searchCache\SWCReference.index\segments (The system cannot find the file specified)

The log file is located in:

[workspace]\.metadata\.log