Archive: August, 2005

Eclipse - ASDT Keyboard shortcut tips

by Daniel Wabyick
Friday, August 26th, 2005

For the past couple of months, I have been using the FAME ( Flashout, ASDT, Mtasc, and Eclipse) architecture for Flash development. Overall, its been a great experience, but like most open-source projects, documentation is often passed on in informal settings, like this weblog !

The following are a few of the most useful keyboard shortcut tips used in ASDT (Actionscript Development Tool) culled from the highly recommended OSFlash mailing list.

  • F3: Open the declaration of an Actionscript element.
  • CTRL-SPACE: Opens available code completion. Hit the UP arrow to see available template functions.
  • (tmpl. name) CTRL-SPACE: Inserts template with for the given name.
  • CTRL-SHIFT-G: Generate getters and setters. (yes!)
  • CTRL-SHIFT-D: Duplicate line
  • CTRL-SHIFT-S: Open super implementation of a method

Another useful tip: To see all keyboard shortcuts available in Eclipse, goto Preferences -> General - Keys.

Hope this speeds your development along. Thanks again to the ASDT team for their hard work and great tool !

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