JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

How often do you use ‘Go To Class/File/Symbol’ feature in IntelliJ IDEA? Pretty often I would guess. But do you know everything you can do with it? Let me go through a couple of often overlooked gems.

Do you know that when you search for file or class you can preview an image (Ctrl-Shift-I) or see a quick doc (Ctrl-Q)?

It is also possible to open multiple items in the editor (multiselect with Ctrl or Shift) or run multiple selected tests right from the search (Ctrl-Shift-F10).

And you can open all search results in the ‘Find’ tool-window to process them one by one later.

Did I mention your favorite feature? No? Please, share it with everyone!

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.

Yes! The sunny Spring has finally come to St.Petersburg too. However, it’s not that “Spring” we want to talk now…

We realize that many of you use the Spring framework in your every day work. So, many should be interested in the new Spring-related features that can be found in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 release.

1. Better navigation between xml configs and annotated stereotype components

2. Advanced usage search for @Autowired beans

3. More inspections for your configs, for instance, deprecated classes and members highlighting.

4. More powerful placeholder support. All spring model inspections get and analyze placeholder values before highlighting.

5. More clear Bean Dependencies Graph view. For instance, it obtains beans and dependencies from custom namespaces. Check out this spring integration schemas example.

There are also smaller changes here and there…

Download IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 RC to try it and enjoy the improved Spring framework support.

If you use Client Bundle interface in a GWT application, you will enjoy an advanced navigation and coding assistance that IntelliJ IDEA 10 provides.

ClientBundle methods will be marked with icons allowing you to quickly navigate to a corresponding resource:

For interfaces implementing CssResource IntelliJ IDEA will also check that Java interfaces methods are consistent with CSS classes 

and will suggest to automatically add missing methods:

Download IntelliJ IDEA X EAP builds to try this new feature.

Maia provides a number of smart features to make working with Android resources simpler.

• Convenient navigation from XML resource descriptors to appropriate Java fields in an R.java class…
  
  … and from Java code to resource files.
  

• Usage search for resources. That is, when you are searching for usages of res/drawable/android.png resource file you will find both XML (@drawable/android) and Java references (R.drawable.android). By the way, searching for usages of R.drawable.android Java field yields the same results.
  
  Note that you can find usages of value resources (represented by XML tags) by pressing Shift+F6 when caret is positioned just before a tag:
  

• Rename refactoring. When you rename a resource file (i.e. res/drawable/android.png), all XML and Java references are updated automatically. Renaming of R.drawable.android Java field, as you may have guessed, has the same effect. Note that now renaming of a resource represented by an XML descriptor is possible only through renaming an appropriate Java field.

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):


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.

IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.1 will support Show Class Hierarchy action that displays class hierarchy of a selected type. Just place the caret at any type in the code editor and press Ctrl+Alt+U.