Category: FDT
Eclipse Filename Search Filter
Because I keep forgetting this:
In Eclipse, Shift-Command-R brings up a dialog that can be used to find files by name.
Flash Debug Logging
Flash debug output can be captured to a log file, as described by Mark Walters here: http://yourpalmark.com/2005/07/01/trace-from-the-browser-using-standard-trace/. On OS X You can then display that output in Console.app. I've set up two aliases in my bash profile to do so:
- alias trace=’open -a /Volumes/[HARD DRIVE NAME]/Applications/Utilities/Console.app/ /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/Logs/flashlog.txt’
- alias cleartrace=’cat /dev/null> /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/Logs/flashlog.txt’
So whenever I want to watch the trace output from a site I can just open Terminal.app and type trace to open the log file, and cleartrace to delete the contents of the file.
FDT 3.5
Finally installed FDT 3.5 yesterday. I don't write Flex Apps, so the MXML support is nice to see but doesn't really affect me. I noticed a lot more templates, and today I was pleased to see that the quick fix to rename a class also automatically renames the constructor if it is present. It always annoyed me that this wasn't the default behavior in FDT 3.2.
I also recommend the three-part online training course on FDT by Alan Klement. More details here. Alan's blog is also a great resource for FDT tips and also general Flash development topics.
Project Names for Ant Build Files
Just posted this over at the DS Tech Blog: Project Names for Ant Build Files. Completely obvious, yet somehow it's taken me a year to realize this. It's not usually an issue when you only have one project open, but today I was staring at three build files in the Ant panel, all named "project". So, just another small step towards better workflow.