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Flex Builder Shortcuts
Useful Flex Builder keyboard shortcuts and hints

Adobe Flex Builder  has many convenient keyboard commands   and hints that make your programming faster. You can see the complete list of all available shortcuts by pressing Ctrl-Shift-L. But this is a list of Flex Builder   shortcuts  and hints that I use on a regular basis.
 
1.If you see a little asterisk in the tab with the your file name, this  means that this file  has some unsaved code changes.
 
2.Pressing Ctrl-S saves the file and compiles your code. If saving the file does not generate any messages, it’s the good news: your code does not have compilation errors.

3.Highlight the name of the class or a function and press the button F3 on your keyboard. This will take you to the source code of this class.

4.If some of the lines are marked with red error circles, move the mouse over the circle and Flex Builder will display the text describing this error.

5.Press Ctrl-Space to get  context-sensitive help.
 
6.Alt + / will complete the name of the variable or a class after you typed in a couple of its first letters.
 
7.Press Ctrl-F11 to run  the last-launched program again. Hit  F11  to run the program in a debug mode.
 
8.Place the cursor after a curly brace and Flex Builder will mark the matching brace.
 
9.Highlight a line or a block of code and press Alt-ArrowUp or Alt-ArrowDown. The selected code will move up or down.
 
10.Alt and arrow keys moves from one open class tab to the next one.
 
11.Ctrl-H will open a popup to search on multiple files, and Ctrl-F will let you find text in the open file.
 
12.To copy a class from one project to another, select the class and press Ctrl-C. Select the destination package and press Ctrl-V.
 
13.Highlight the MXML tag or ActionScript class and press Shift-F2. This will open a screen with the language reference help on the selected element.
 
14.Highlight a block of code and press Ctrl-Shift-C to comment out the selected block of code.
 
15.Ctrl-Shift-D inserts the <![CDATA[  ]]> block in your code.
 
16.To select surrounding containers, select a GUI control and press F4.
 
17.If your project relies on the code from external libraries, right-click on the project name, select Properties | Build Path and press the button Add SWC.
 
18.As you change you code in the editor, Flex Builder puts a vertical purple bar on the left of each modified line. This is quite handy if you’d like to have a quick look at the new code before pressing the button Save.

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About Yakov Fain
Yakov Fain is a managing principal of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters" in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Currently Yakov works on the book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Application Development with Flex".

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sunil wrote: great
Murali wrote: Great post!!! I'm new to flex builder these short cuts would save a lot of time for me. Just wanted to add some more short cuts to your list. To find text, double click on the text and hit ctrl+k to find next, ctrl+shift+k to find previous. For quick package outline hit ctrl+o To go to last edit location ctrl+q Thanks Murali
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