Flash Develop And Design

Pimp My Eclipse - Part 3

Posted in Flash by The Flash Blog on the 12-03-2008

Update: Last night I uploaded a slightly wrong version. Please redownload and install this to be sure things work smoothly. Sorry about that.

So I have now developed a new plugin project that contains the previous two that I have blogged about. Keeping everything I’m doing in a single plugin project makes it a lot easier to keep track of and update. I have also added a new feature. The CFEclipse plugin contains a button to launch a color picker. This works fairly well but I wanted one that would format the color in the octal format that ActionScript expects. Their plugin also doesn’t properly position the cursor after insertion. Check out the screenshot below to see the new toolbar containing Flash Test, Insert Snippet, and Insert Color.

To install the plugin, download the ZIP file and extract the contents into your Eclipse 3.4 installation. Make sure you remove the previous plugins that may have installed from me. You can go into the Eclipse preferences and add or modify the keyboard shortcuts for these items.

I’m about to start working on turning my Project Builder AIR application into an Eclipse plugin. This will make things smooth. Let me know if you have other ideas for the plugin.

Lee

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