HowTo: Improve your workflow with Snippets, comments and ‘dormant’ variables
Sunday, January 25th, 2009I use FlexBuilder. I used to use FDT but the code-completion, hover-over links and - most importantly - ability to compile from MXML that FlexBuilder offers eventually tempted me away. Still, there’s one thing about FDT I miss: it wrote A LOT of code for me. Nothing complicated, stuff like getters & setters that are tedious and time consuming. It was great that FDT could take that off my hands.
These days, with FlexBuilder, I don’t have that any longer. Which isn’t great but I’ve managed to concoct a workaround using ‘Snippets’, comments and ‘dormant’ variables, which has sped things up for me and which could do the same for you.
Let me explain…