Eclipse Snippets
Posted: 2009-05-01 00:00:00

As I was installing Flex Builder back, I found out that it doesn't work too well with 64 bit. After looking around for awhile, I found that the latest Eclipse (Ganymede) does support it, and, since I own Flex 3, I was able to download the flex plug-in for eclipse.

I looked around after that for any other plug-ins that I didn't already have - I use SoapUI, Subsclipse, PHPEclipse, CFclipse, and a few others already - but I found a new one that added a really simple but nice feature that allows you to save "snippets" of code that can be inserted with a click. Installing the Web Tools (WTP) adds in a dockable window that can be dragged into any perspective called "Snippets".

Currently, I have a few in there right now, mainly snippets for setting up code, such as my default comment structure (breaking up the public and private variables and methods from one another). I also have a snippet in there for creating a new module for a project I am currently working on for my job - in the future, I'll probably also put in some snippets for unit testing as well.

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