Hello everyone and welcome to the first IntelliJ IDEA EAP in 2013.
We’re very close to the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 12.0.2 update and would like to get your feedback from one more preview build. There are some fixes for Darcula critical issues and a bunch of Retina icons for our Mac users.
Please download the build at IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP page.
The full list of changes can be found in Release Notes.
Every developer in the Java world has to deal with exceptions. An exception stack trace is the easiest way to tell, what’s wrong in your program. In IntelliJ IDEA we try to make analysis of a stack trace more convenient for developers. As you might know, IntelliJ IDEA has Exception Analyzer, which helps you analyze a stack trace.
Today I would like to tell you briefly, how you can save your time dealing with stack traces.
The everyday story about exceptions:
Now you can easily skip 4th and 5th steps. Just check the option in Analyze dialog to analyze with pleasure.
We know that one of the most popular ways to navigate within a file is File Structure popup. We’ve recently redesigned it to make the navigation more comfortable. New File Structure is tree-based and shows everything in your file when you first invoke it with Control+F12.
The following short screencast should explain better what we did.
Did you notice you can use Show Quick Doc and Show Implementations action from File Structure popup?
You can already try it in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 EAP. Let us know what you think and we can improve it even further before 11.1 is shipped.
When working with big projects we always come back to 10-20 items/files where we do the most of our work.
IntelliJ IDEA helps you collecting all these items in one place — ‘Favorites’. It’s easy to add a file, a class or a method to the Favorites by simply pressing Alt+Shift+F. You can also drag and drop items to the Favorites.
And now with ‘Favorites’ being a separate tool-window, just press Alt+2 (or Cmd+2) whenever you need to access one of your precious items again.
We’ve slightly redesigned Navigation Bar and added some new sweet features. Watch this short demo for the details and a general overview of NavBar abilities.
Did you know that IntelliJ IDEA 11 Diff Tool supports some of binary contents? Now, it’s not a problem to see changes from file history or a change list. Every binary content you’re able to open in IntelliJ might be compared in Diff Tool: UML diagrams, SWF files, of course images, and much, much more.
In IntelliJ IDEA 11 you can check your Regular Expressions while coding without leaving the IDE. Just invoke the ‘Check RegExp’ intention action on a regular expression and play!
Tip: You can turn any string into a regular expression by injecting RegExp language. Try the ‘Inject Language’ intention action.
We at JetBrains know how important it is to track what has been changed in your project from one version or revision to another. This is why IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 brings you new Diff Tools for comparing local directories, DB objects (Data Sources, Schemes, Tables). In later updates we’re planning on including even remote to local files comparison as well. Diff Tools are available via Ctrl+D, or from context menu, wherever you may need them.
Say, to compare two Data Sources (or Tables, or Schemes, come to that), all you need is select them in Data Sources tool window, and then invoke the Compare action either from context menu, or via toolbar:
Comparing two local folders is just as easy: the action is available in Project View file tree.
To run a single inspection in previous versions of IntelliJ IDEA you had to create a dedicated inspection profile for that or use “Run inspection on…” from inspection’s quick fix list. In IntelliJ IDEA X you can find and run inspection by its name on any scope without creating an inspection profile. Use Run Inspection by Name (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I) action anywhere to choose a desired inspection from hundreds of available,
then select a scope to run inspection on,
and get results.
This action is available since version 98.402 in Main Menu-> Analyze->Run Inspection by Name.
If you work a lot with WSDL, you will find new IntelliJ IDEA X refactorings, code completions and validations very handy. Be it schema or WSDL, import inside a WSDL document is not a problem anymore.
Also, we are looking forward to your feedback regarding WSDL.
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