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Flash Develop and Flex Builder shortcuts comparison


03.13.09 Posted in Actionscript, Flex Development, community by admin

I gave a presentation on Open Source Flex Development to MMUG Dublin last night and provided a shortcuts comparison between Flex Builder and Flash Develop.  It only lists the ones that I use and know about.  Feel free to mention ones that I haven’t listed.


Flex Builder

Flash Develop

Description

 

 

 

Ctrl Click

F4

Jumps to class/method/property

 

Ctrl+F

Jumps to next occurrence

Ctrl+K /Ctrl+Shift+K (when text highlighted)

F3/Shift+F3

Quick find next/previous

Ctrl+F

Ctrl+H

Find and replace

Ctrl+Shift+T

Ctrl+J

Open Type dialog to jump to Class

Ctrl+O

 

Outliner

Ctrl+Shift+L

 

List of all shortcuts

Ctrl+M

Alt+Shift+Enter

Full screen the panel

 

Ctrl+M

Brings up code completion

 

Ctrl+Shift+1

Context sensitive code generator

 

Ctrl+B

Snippets menu

 

Ctrl+Shift+N

Create a copy of current file

 

F1

Google context search

 

Ctrl+Shift+K

Retrieve hexadecimal from colour dialog

Ctrl+Shift+P

Ctrl+M

Jump to matching bracket

 

Ctrl+D

Duplicate line

 

Ctrl+T

Transpose lines

 

F5/Ctrl+Enter

Test movie

 

F8

Build project

 

Ctrl+Q

Comment line

 

Ctrl+Shift+B

Comment selection

Ctrl+Shift+O

 

Organise imports

 

 

 

 


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4 Responses to “Flash Develop and Flex Builder shortcuts comparison”

  1. Steven Sacks says:

    Some more for FD

    CTRL+D – Duplicate Line (I love this shortcut)

    CTRL+T – Transpose Lines (I love this shortcut, too)

    CTRL+B is actually Snippet

    F5 / CTRL+ENTER – Test Movie

    F8 – Build Project

    CTRL+H – Find and Replace

    CTRL+I – Find and Replace in Files

    F3 / Shift+F3 – Quick Find Next/Previous

    CTRL+Q – Comment Line

    CTRL+SHIFT+B – Comment Selection

    Note that all of these shortcuts are very easily modified. I prefer to change the Code Generator from CTRL+SHIFT+1 to the much easier to press ALT+2.

    FlashDevelop also does not require that you press anything to bring up the code completion, or type things in the right order. You can make typos and it still is smart enough to offer what it thinks you meant to type. Take that Flex Builder. Eclipse is garbage at auto-completion, and, unlike FlashDevelop, if you make a typo while typing, you have to start over again.

  2. admin says:

    thanks for these Steven. I didn’t know about some of these. The comment selection shortcut is very handy.

    I’ll update the table with your list.

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