IntelliJ Idea Flex and Actionscript 3 Workflow: [Part 1] Creating a Flex Project

21Mar/1020

IntelliJ Idea Flex and Actionscript 3 Workflow: [Part 1] Creating a Flex Project

I've been using IntelliJ Idea 9 quite a bit in both production and personal work lately. It is a great IDE, with lots of useful features. This is going to be a series of short screencasts that highlight the workflow in Idea for Flex/Actionscript development. The first is a quick introduction and how to set up a Flex project. If you have any questions or requests for future videos in the series please feel free to leave them in the comments.

direct link to the video (42mb QT)

Resources

IntelliJ IDEA EAP Download Page
Jesse Freeman's IDEA Workflow series on InsideRIA

The IntelliJ Idea Flex and Actionscript 3 Workflow: [Part 1] Creating a Flex Project by Joel Hooks, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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hpeide

Link broken?
Joel Hooks

It is back now. I changed hosts so not everything made the switch :>
sine1

Many thanks... looking forward to more. IntelliJ looks like an impressive ( almost overwhelming) collection of tools for a developer - but aesthetically it's pretty ugly. I wonder, is it easy to theme the coding environment? E.g. code on black...that's a pain in eclipse. One thing: on mac, when I right click on the mxml file as you suggest, there is no option to run that I could find.. I had to go and set up a run configuration in Edit configurations.
Joel Hooks

Changing colors and customizing is coming up next! I've got a sweet
dark theme I cooked up.
Rick Reumann

Anyone know how to get IDEA to display the actual string value of XML when using the debugger? It seems to only display some object reference. I'm stuck having to manually put in log.debug or trace statements to output the xml string value. (Still think IDEA rocks though, it seems a billion times better at refactoring than Flex Builder or flash Builder.)
newtriks

Nice one Joel, I am in the same camp as yourself i.e. enjoying IntelliJ but also using FlashBuilder. I can see the pro's of both and am continually undecided which camp I am leaning towards more. IntelliJ seems to be a lot more powerful as a _developer_ IDE but FlashBuilder seems to be better for all the Flex related functionality. With SourceMate FlashBuilder is most certainly improved but there are still niggles, especially the longer you spend developing within Eclipse. Time will tell....
Helmut

I would like to see how long it will take you to be able to fly in Idea as fast as you did in FDT :).
Joel Hooks

That was Mr Lindquist flying in FDT. That is one thing I do need to work on in IDEA (my hotkeys)

http://pv3d.org/2009/11/18/robotlegs-hello-world-video-tutorial/
Razouille

Thanks for the video. Ready to see some more and find out why you prefere Idea to Eclipse.
You should put the link to the Idea download url in the post it would have been easier to just click on it for getting the same version as you.
Joel Hooks

I don't know that I prefer it yet. I still use Flash Builder. They have different strengths. I will try and cover the cons as well as the pros in the series.
Razouille

There have to be some good pros as it costs about the same price as FB4 Premium who has some new cool stuff and to which you can add Sourcemate for some extra cool stuff)