6 Quickies for Flex Builder

1. Press Ctrl and the class or method becomes a hyperlink that brings you with a click to its declaration. The other option is pressing F3.
2. Tab flipping like in Firefox: Window > Preferences > General > Keys > View then in category “Window”, find “Next Editor” and assign Alt+Tab to the command. Don’t forget to really add the key sequence.
3. I have always two Eclipse windows: One for the client in the Flex Perspective and the other for the server in the Java Perspective. You can do this with a right click onto the Java-Project and choosing “Open in new Window”
4. For performance reasons, I had to disable subclipse. Eclipse became very slow recently.
5. For digging libraries, I like to see the type hierarchy: F4 helps.
6. Ctrl+H is the information desk. “Select resources” cuts the time for the search down.
7. [Update] Like in Acrobat Reader or FireFox, you can skip to your last position with Alt+<-
8. [Update] Reading the source of the some Flex components came be very helpful: You get the class browser with Ctrl+Shift+T.
9. [2nd Update] I just learned about Dash that remains me of Greasmonkey. You can write your own little scripts in any Eclipse project. EOkyere shows a useful script for creating getter/setters in ActionScript with only writing var test:String.

And here a quickie for FREE in Firefox

Use Quick Searches! When I want to know how much fat a radish has, I type in Firefox:

• F6: brings me to the URL field
• wp radish
• = it’s 1g per kg

You can do this for the Flex search or any other site that allows to insert the search term in the URL. For Wikipedia,

1. Create a bookmark in the “Quick Searches” folder
2. Open the properties of this bookmark
3. Insert in Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
4. Insert in Keyword: wp
5. et finito
   

Maybe Google could integrate this feature in a personalized search? So I only have to use one input field for searching.