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Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA

February 5th, 2008 by Egor Malyshev

We’ve got great news for those of you who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA.

Many advanced features are supported by the upcoming version 7.0.3 that is already available throught the Early Access Program (EAP):

  • Smart code completion for MXML and AS files, with cross-resolution of code symbols between them, even inside of mx:Script blocks and attribute values
  • Automatic code formatting, highlighting and styling
  • On-the-fly code validation with instant quick-fixes
  • Code insections to hunt perfomance bottlenecks, bad code practicies and other problems
  • Rich set refactorings

We’ve composed a comprehensive tutorial, for you to quickly start over.

To get your hands on IntelliJ IDEA Flex experience, you only need:

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15 Responses to “Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA”

  1. Peter Jacobsen Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 3:46 am

    Good news to see IntelliJ IDEA support Flex. I have been using IDEA for years for all my Java coding and I think it is a very strong competitor to Flex Builder and FDT. I do not expect IntelliJ to develop a design view feature - for that I can use Flex Builder but you could make me really happy with an IDEA Flex debugger. Any plans?

  2. Henrik Winther Jensen Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 4:50 am

    Great!

    Thanks a bundle
    Henrik

  3. Den Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Thank you guys

  4. Nathan Voxland Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Any chance of getting a Flex debugger? With these new features in IntelliJ, the debugger is the only really compelling reason to still use the Flex Builder IDE.

  5. Fahim Ilyas Says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 5:07 am

    Looks very promising…

  6. Egor Malyshev Says:
    February 8th, 2008 at 5:53 am

    I’ve slightly updated the PDF tutorial - replaced the confusing screenshot, showing the Flex module, which is not required for working with Flex in 7.0.x, and appeared because this screenshot was occasionally taken from from one of Diana builds :)

  7. Mansour Raad Says:
    February 9th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Great news - thanks.

  8. Scott Williams Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Thanks for the update, I can’t wait to get my hands on the new Flex functionality! Can you give us a clue as to when 7.0.3 is going to be released?

  9. Egor Malyshev Says:
    February 13th, 2008 at 8:42 am

    It’s coming out the next week, sometime between 17th and 23rd of February :)

  10. Ben Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Yahoo!!

  11. Alexey Epishkin Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 5:00 am

    thanks a lot for flex support!!!!

  12. Asif Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    How about Flex debugger?

  13. Egor Malyshev Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 8:39 am

    Asif, watch for IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 EAP releases - Flex debugger should be available by that time.

  14. Misha Says:
    March 14th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    Is there rough E.T.A. for IDEA 8 EAP? beta? GA?

  15. Errol Dalgic Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Woohoo great to see flex support. Thanks!

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