Quick Tip: Flex 3 IDE
I have added a new Category to my blog called “Quick Tips” from which I plan to post various quick and simple, yet useful little things I come across from time to time.
This first Quick Tip has to do with the default state of the “Mark occurrences feature” in Flex Builder 3 (the feature which causes all methods, properties etc to be highlighted in blue).
Upon installation of the latest Flex 3 beta one of the initial features I noticed was the Mark occurrences feature. Personally I found it to be quite annoying and somewhat intrusive. In addition the feature was also pretty slow (however I believe this is currently being addressed).
In any event I wanted to disable this feature, problem was I couldn’t figure out exactly how to turn it off! After some exploring in the preferences panel I was still unable to find where the Mark occurrences feature could be disabled, so I posted a new topic on the Flex 3 pre-release forum, and luckily I got a quick response from Laurence Mclister explaining where the feature could be disabled - it was right there in the toolbar!
Mark occurrences can be turned off via the toolbar button which looks like a yellow highlighter it is typically toward the center of the toolbar). Below I have highlighted in red where the Mark occurrences feature is located on the toolbar.
Hope that saves someone some time down the road.
January 7th, 2008 at 2:31 am
I don’t know anyone who hasn’t turned this off as quickly as they found out how. Thanks for making this public - and needless to say this should be off by default.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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I could not turn it off so I made the highlight white in preferences->editors->text editors->annotations->actionscript occurrences - just so as to annoy me a bit less…Although, when trying to disable the show-in options there nothing happened (there was always a default highlight) , which could be a flex builder bug. I dunno; I still didint get around to report it…
Thanks for pointing out the tool bar button, man!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:06 am
yes annoying and yes the solution was right there in the tool bar, but it took to me a lot of time!! I belive it was or is a joke from Adobe. Anyway thanks Eric and please keep on with some more useful Design Pattern.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Wow, I must be the only person that likes this feature. I find it quite handy when copying code snippets and changing variable names and such..
January 19th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I think it might be handy if you could toggle it with a hot key. Thanks for the tip.