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Since IntelliJ IDEA is so much loved by keyboard addicts, here is a tiny yet helpful feature introduced in version 9.0.2: you can change size of a tool window by means of your keyboard.

Say, you’re doing “find usages”, the tool window is popping up and it’s too small for you to comfortably look at the usages tree. Now you don’t have to grab a mouse to stretch it up, just hit Ctrl-Shift-Up (Meta-Shift-Up for Mac users) and your tool window is getting bigger.

So, if you need to resize a tool window: focus it (by Alt-number or Ctrl-Tab) and then use Ctrl-Shift plus an arrow key that points to the direction you want.

You can also use these arrow shortcuts to resize dialogs and actually any window that IntelliJ IDEA shows. Say, you opened the project structure dialog and it’s too narrow for you. Use Ctrl-Shift-Right and Ctrl-Shift-Down to make it bigger.

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.1, the first bugfix update for IntelliJ IDEA 9, is now available. With almost 200 resolved issues in such areas as Flex support, version control integration, Groovy support and others, it’s a strongly recommended upgrade for all users of both Ultimate and Community editions of IntelliJ IDEA 9.

Download IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.1 now, and check the release notes for the new update.

If you are working with Flexmojos Maven projects in IntelliJ IDEA 9, and have imported Flexmojos project as described in this post, and are planning to debug your application and browse through Flex SDK sources, this post is a must-read for you. Inside you will find details on how to configure IntelliJ IDEA so that it properly recognizes SDK sources and their ASdocs.

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It often happens that we need to edit HTML code inside JavaScript literals. With Maia this is at last possible, and even with pleasure!

Completion, quick documentation, and navigation for HTML, CSS and even JavaScript inside JavaScript literals is at your service

Editing CSS files in Flex applications becomes easier with the help of some new Maia features.

First, completion for CSS selectors, properties, and property values. For example, if you press Ctrl+Space in this context, you get all class names from
a default namespace http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml + global selector:

If a CSS property has a color format, IntelliJ IDEA helps you to select a color:

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GraniteDS technology allows to create enterprise web applications with Flex at client side and Java at server side. With IntelliJ IDEA you can develop GraniteDS projects with complete coding assistance both for Flex and Java, compile, deploy, run, and debug both client and server side in just few clicks!

Let’s create an IntelliJ IDEA project for Hello World example from GraniteDS developer guide. You may configure a project yourself or download it here
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In addition to other refactorings, Maia also has this useful refactoring: push members down the classes hierarchy.

Again, let’s try it on a simple example.

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Contexts and Dependency Injection (JSR-299) support in Maia has been significantly improved.

• Reworked tool window:
  

• New code inspections:
  • Injection points inconsistency. Detects Injection Points with ambiguous and unsatisfied dependencies
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  • @Typed annotation errors.
    

  • Unproxyable bean types inconsistency.
    

  • And more:
    
• Improved Rename refactoring for @Named beans
• Better navigation to @Typed beans
• Enhanced dependencies diagram, and more.

Sometimes when you are editing JavaScript/ActionScript code, you need to remove, say, an enclosing if statement without touching a current code block.

In Maia you can just invoke Unwrap/Remove action (Control+Shift+Delete in Windows keymap), which allows to precisely select which construct to unwrap:

Voila! The edited code block is unwrapped and in place!

BTW, this handy action works in XML/HTML/JSP files, where it removes enclosing tags.

Enjoy developing with pleasure!

Maia gives you an easy way of analyzing Web Bean class dependencies — just invoke a pop-up menu on any class in your editor. (more…)