I do have one thought on something else which can be added to this to make it even more useful. A lot of the time when Flex developers are using getters/setters it is so that we can hook into calling invalidateDisplayList/invalidateProperites/etc. A big part of this is setting a flag so that when the call to commitProperties/etc is invoked, it can check for those flags and act accordingly.

The basic format is as follows:

private var _foo:Object;
private var _fooChanged:Boolean = false;

public function set foo(value:Object):void
{
_foo = value;
_fooChanged = true;
invalidateProperties();
}

public function get foo():Object
{
return _foo;
}

…

override protected function commitProperties()
{
super.commitProperties();
if(fooChanged)….
}

If there were some way to generate the getters/setters where they include that accompanying boolean flag as well as call one or more of the invalidatexxx functions..that would be MONEY! I can’t tell you how many times I write that!

Bonus points if you can add the fooChanged..block to the function which we are scheduling a call to.

Another awesome thing would be to highlight a public var and then convert it to this private getter/setter format(and vice versa)

Thanks!

http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-25806