JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

At JetBrains we not only bring you new powerful features that make your life better, but also take care to polish the good old stuff to perfection. Let’s take a look at the Move refactoring for ActionScript classes, Flex components and all other types of top-level declarations (namespaces, functions, variables and constants), that has just got a little smarter. By the way, this refactoring also works for inner declarations (also known as helpers or file-local declarations), defined in ActionScript file out of the package statement.

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Hello guys! Just recently we’ve published an update to our Flash/Flex Profiler plugin that gives you a powerful and easy to use toolset for profiling of Flash-based applications in IntelliJ IDEA.

Let us give you a brief overview of what you can do with it.

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Do you know how to navigate from a class to its test and back again or how to create a FlexUnit test quickly with IntelliJ IDEA 11? Let me tell you.

First of all make sure that flexunit.swc is within your module dependencies:

and just press Ctrl+Shift+T (Cmd+Shift+T on Mac) or select Navigate | Test from main menu:

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I’d like to highlight few useful features in ActionScript/Flex debugger, some of which are new in IntelliJ IDEA 11.

Better members presentation in Variables view (informative icons, sorting) with ability to jump to source:

Convenient collections view (size, Vector status, collection elements):

Mark any object instance and this instance will be highlighted in all views if met again until the end of the debug session:

[SWF] and [UnloadSWF] messages are now filtered out by default. Toggle respective button in Debug tool window to switch the filter off:

Debug with pleasure!

We’re working day and night to bring you more goodies in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5. Here are just a few more of them.

Introduce Variable (Field, Constant) refactoring now has a type chooser and makes it easier to work with untyped array elements (among other things):

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Latest EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 supports full cycle of Mobile AIR applications development: write code, compile, package, install, run and debug on emulator or Android device! Let’s look at common development workflow. (more…)

Do you know that one of the most effective ways of writing code in IntelliJ IDEA is Create From Usage approach, when first use a class, method, or other symbol, and IntelliJ IDEA then generates its declaration in a single click? Well, you do now, plus I’d like to give you two more examples of useful quick fixes that can generate routine code for you in no time.

Create Flex Skin

IntelliJ IDEA knows which MXML attributes must contain qualified name of a class. Class doesn’t exist? Invoke quick fix and get it right away.

In case of Skin class its behavior is even smarter. Write a skin class usage…

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Hi all ActionScript/Flex devs! I hope you enjoy using IntelliJ IDEA and I’m sure you’ll like it even more after you try Change Method Signature refactoring! It’s amazing how it allows you to quickly restyle your methods not only by renaming them, but also by adding, reordering, renaming, and deleting parameters, changing their types and default values.

All usages and overriding method declarations will be updated automagically, so your application compiles and works the same way as before with no extra care from your side!

Let me show you how it all works.

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We’ve mentioned the Flash on the Beach conference we attended last month. It was a great event with everything we hoped for and much more. Thanks to all who stopped by! We’re looking forward to visit FOTB again next year.

As promised we’ve ran a raffle of 10 personal IntelliJ IDEA licenses. The winners are listed below:
  1. Brett Jephson
  2. Christof Marte
  3. Conrad Winchester
  4. Gemma Evans
  5. Linas (Ovos media Gmbh)
  6. Mat Janson Blanchet
  7. Nick Forsberg
  8. Richard Guest
  9. Sarah Lewis
  10. Thomas Brekelmans
If your name is in the list, but you have not received an e-mail, drop us a line here.

And in the end of October we’re going to Los Angeles for another great event — Adobe MAX 2010. We’ll have a booth there with IntelliJ IDEA developers, some useful materials, cool giveaways and geeky T-Shirts!

So, if you’re there — stop by and say “IntelliJ IDEA is cool!” pass-phrase for a special ultra-cool prize!

Develop with pleasure!
The JetBrains Team

Adobe Systems Inc. has recently announced it is stopping further development of Flash Builder for Linux.

If this news makes you uneasy, take it as a great opportunity to learn some new tools!

We welcome all of you to try IntelliJ IDEA as Flex, ActionScript and AIR IDE for every OS, but we aren’t the only ones to do so.

James Ward, a Technical Evangelist at Adobe, has posted an article to his blog in relation to the Flash Builder Linux shutdown, “Flex Development on Linux with IntelliJ IDEA”. James says IntelliJ IDEA is “doing a great job”. He has also recorded a short overview video about using it as your Flex IDE on Linux that we recommend watching.

So, check out the short video below, try IntelliJ IDEA as your new Flex and ActionScript IDE and let us know what you think!

You can download 30-day trial of the latest stable IntelliJ IDEA. Alternatively, you can grab an Early Access build of IntelliJ IDEA 10 which was actually shown in the above video and offers some new cool features.

Develop with pleasure!