ActionScript and Flex

ActionScript and Flex Support

ActionScript and Flex support includes:

• 10.0+ Code completion, including completion of statements (Ctrl+Shift+EnterCommand Shift Enter) and Smart Type completion (Ctrl+Shift+SpaceControl Shift Space).
• Error and syntax highlighting.
• 9.0+ ActionScript and Flex code refactorings:
  • Change Method Signature.
  • Delegate Methods.
  • Extract Interface.
  • Extract Method.
  • Extract Superclass.
  • Inline.
  • Introduce Constant.
  • Introduce Field.
  • Introduce Parameter.
  • Introduce Variable.
  • Move a class or an interface to a package.
  • Move Inner to Upper Level for moving classes, functions, variables, constants and namespaces declared outside of packages into a package.
  • Move/Copy a file.
  • Move Static Members.
  • Pull Members Up, Push Members Down.
  • Rename a file, function, variable, parameter, property or label (both directly and via references).
  • Safe Delete a file.
• ActionScript and Flex code inspections and quick-fixes.
• Intention Actions for creating various application elements.
• Code formatting and folding.
• Advanced Search and Navigation, plus Structure View.
• Enhanced navigation with gutter icons.
• Navigation from CSS properties and selectors to their declarations in ActionScript (Ctrl+BCommand B).
• Possibility to build ActionScript and Flex applications using various compiler shells and compilation options.
• Support for breakpoints and specific run/debug configurations for debugging ActionScript and Flex applications directly from IntelliJ IDEA.
• ActionScript and Flex-aware debugger that lets you execute applications step by step, evaluate expressions, examine related information and find runtime bugs.
• 9.0+ Quick Javadoc (Ctrl+QControl J) for AsDoc.
• BlazeDS support.
• 10.5+ AIR application development support at all stages of application development cycle. Development of AIR applications for mobile devices is also supported. For basic how-to information, see New in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5: Develop Mobile AIR Applications for Android.
• Possibility to create pure ActionScript applications.
• ActionScript live templates: File | Settings | IDE Settings | Live Templates | ActionScript and JavaScript groups.
• Ability to wrap and unwrap code constructs in ActionScript and MXML (Ctrl+Alt+TCommand Alt T and Ctrl+Shift+DeleteCommand Shift Delete).
• 9.0+ Type Hierarchy (Ctrl+HControl H), Method Hierarchy (Ctrl+Shift+HCommand Shift H) and Call Hierarchy (Ctrl+Alt+HControl Alt H) for Flex sources (*.mxml and *.as files).
• 9.0+ Easy import of Flex projects created in Adobe Flash Builder.
• Import of Flexmojos projects. See Working with Flexmojos projects in IntelliJ IDEA. See the description of related import setting.
• 10.0+ ActionScript and Flex UML class diagrams. Among the features is the ability to view changes in ActionScript source files in a structured visual form.

FlexUnit Support

IntelliJ IDEA supports the versions 0.9 and 4 of FlexUnit, a unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript applications and libraries.

FlexUnit support includes:

• Dedicated FlexUnit run/debug configurations to run a single test method, test suite, all methods in a certain test class, or all test classes in a given package.
• Ability to perform the tests both in the run and the debug modes.
• Support for Flunit tests via FlexUnit 4 test runner.
• FlexUnit-aware code inspections (turned off by default).