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Favorite Flex Builder Shortcuts

I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts
By Ben Forta
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June 9, 2006 01:30 PM EDT
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Favorite FlexBuilder Shortcuts

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I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts. Some of these are actually Eclipse shortcuts, but regardless, these are some of my favorite:

  • Ctrl-F11: Run
  • F11: Debug
  • Ctrl-Alt-Down: Repeat current line
  • Alt-Up: Move line (or selection) up
  • Alt-Down: Move line (or selection) down
  • Ctrl-Click: Go to definition (also F3)
  • Ctrl-D: Delete line
  • Alt-/: Word completion (cycles through possible matches)
  • Ctrl-Up: Scroll up
  • Ctrl-Down: Scroll Down

What shortcuts do you rely on? Please share!

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Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Technical Evangelist. In that capacity he spends a considerable amount of time talking and writing about Adobe products (with an emphasis on ColdFusion and Flex), and providing feedback to help shape the future direction of the products. By the way, if you are not yet a ColdFusion user, you should be. It is an incredible product, and is truly deserving of all the praise it has been receiving. In a prior life he was a ColdFusion customer (he wrote one of the first large high visibility web sites using the product) and was so impressed he ended up working for the company that created it (Allaire). Ben is also the author of books on ColdFusion, SQL, Windows 2000, JSP, WAP, Regular Expressions, and more. Before joining Adobe (well, Allaire actually, and then Macromedia and Allaire merged, and then Adobe bought Macromedia) he helped found a company called Car.com which provides automotive services (buy a car, sell a car, etc) over the Web. Car.com (including Stoneage) is one of the largest automotive web sites out there, was written entirely in ColdFusion, and is now owned by Auto-By-Tel.

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Web Developer's & Designer's Journal 06/09/06 01:17:14 PM EDT

I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts. Some of these are actually Eclipse shortcuts, but regardless, these are some of my favorite: