Archive for July 10th, 2009

More Colors with Maia

Friday, July 10th, 2009

IntelliJ IDEA 9 (Maia) lets you assign custom colors to arbitrary sets of files (Scopes) in Editor tabs or Navigation lists (Go to class/file, etc):

File Colors
This helps you even more quickly than before understand which class you are looking at: JDK, a library, or your own app. The feature is available in Maia builds that you can get from EAP under Settings/File Colors.

Upgrading Event Listeners to GWT 1.6

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Google Web Toolkit 1.6 replaces EventListener class with EventHandler, so the existing code base needs an upgrade. In most cases IntelliJ IDEA can do this automatically — all you need to do is to press Alt+Enter on a highlighted listener and select Replace quick-fix.


IntelliJ IDEA will then upgrade your code:


This feature is available in Maia builds that you can download from EAP.