Kyle turned me on to this idea today for using code snippets in flex builder, it took me a while to figure out the exact procedure so I will outline it here.

1. start up flex builder and navigate yourself to Help>Software Updates>Find and Install
2. search for new updates to install
3. now your gonna wanna add a new remote site, with the url http://www.cfeclipse.org/update and click finish.
4. after you install cfeclipse your flex builder will restart
5. go to Flex Builder>Preferences>General>Keys
6. in the filter text search for snippets and click on “Insert Snippet” and you will change the “When” variable to “Editing Text”

Snippets are now setup.

To add a snippet you can now go into your windows and “snippet tree view” and setup a code snippet. When adding a snippet keep in mind that the trigger text is like a shortcut so you can type in something like “psf” hit command + J on a mac and have it be replaced with Private Static Function. This really help out if you have code blocks you often type out and need to reuse.

Going to start transforming this blog into more of an information source for nerdy actionscript developers like myself rather than totally random ramblings. I am sure some of those will sneak there way into the blog though.