Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts that I use regularly and that helps me with life in Flex Builder. Obviously the list is not exhaustive but here are the most common: (feel free to leave yours in the comments to the list ...)

Edition code Flex / AIR:

• Clear the current line: Ctrl + D
• Or move the selected rows: Altl + Up Arrow or Down
• Duplicate the selected rows or Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow or Down
• Go to the location of the next or previous edition: Alt + Left or Right (Apple + Alt + Arrow on the Mac)
• Indent several lines selected: Tab or Shift + Tab (for désindenter)
• Find next occurrence of the selection in the file: Ctrl + K (Ctrl + Shift + K to above)
• Organize imports: Ctrl + Shift + O
• And Go to see the definition of a function or property in the file: Ctrl + O
• To review the selection: Ctrl + Shift + C (Marche in MXML, AS and CSS)
• Search the entire file: Ctrl + Shift + F
• Maximize / Minimize active editor: Ctrl + M
• Put the selected text in capitals: Ctrl + Shift + X (Ctrl + Shift + Y to lowercase)
• To go to a class definition: Ctrl + Click on the name of the class
• Find references to a function in a workspace: Ctrl + Shift + G

File management:

• Opening a class from its name: Ctrl + Shift + T
• Navigate through open tabs Ctrl + Shift + Left / Right
  
• Rename a file: F2

Execution and debug:

• Set / Remove a breakpoint on the line: Ctrl + Shift + B
• Navigation on the breakpoints: F5 (Into), F6 (Over), F7 (Return) and F8 (Resume)
• Run debug mode: Alt + Shift + D and F to start the debug Flex Application
• Launch the current application: Alt + Shift + X
• Run the Flex application: Alt + Shift + F
  
• Launch application AIR: Alt + Shift + R

... And finally, the need to Copy / Paste: Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V .... Oh you know!

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Developers Adobe Flex professionals have so far been frustrated by the lack of unit testing tools for Flex. Although FlexUnit has been developed for some time, developers have to Flex unit test tool worthy of the name ...

Rather than wait for someone (Adobe?) To do so Gorilla Logic has created a system called FlexMonkey open sourced. FlexMonkey allows us to record and read the interactions made with a flex interface, and generates ActionScript tests using scripts that can easily be included in a process of integration. It uses the Flex Automation API and was created by extending automation Adobe graphic AutoQuick.
The growing demand for such a tool was that even if the release is out there just 2 months, an active community has already begun this rough around open source project that has been downloaded nearly 1000 times.

For more info on the project FlexMonkey, here is a video presentation by its designers:

and resources is here: Google Code site or Gorilla Logic

From Wednesday 10 December, will be posted vidéso of MAX since 2008 to AdobeTV. The sessions were recorded at 1024 × 768 with 15fps to see all the details of the presentations contained in videos, animations and more subtle features of the Flash platform.

The MAX is online here and the first session is now online!

Flash introduction to Catalyst and the new generation of Adobe Flex

Ryan Stewart, Steven Heintz, Tim Buntel etHeidi Williams show you how Flash Catalyst, the interactive design tool, is about to change the collaboration between designers and developers of Rich Internet applications (RIAs). We also discover the next generation of the Flex Builder development environment for creating rich applications on the Flash platform. The meeting received a DVD with all the software.

Discover over 292 sessions on the AdobeTV!

Source: Ted On Flash

Cocomo is now available on Labs! It is a platform to introduce "social skills in real time 'in your Rich Internet Application (RIA) Flex. Network infrastructure using Adobe, the software allows you to integrate video, chat, VoIP or file sharing in your applications.

COCOMO adboe flex

The following links will help you learn and understand Cocomo:

• Cocomo Developer Guide - This document gives an overview of Cocomo.
• Cocomo API Reference - This document provides a list of all classes, functions, properties, etc.. Cocomo SDK.
• Examples Cocomo - Visit the Developer Portal for a user account and access the sample applications. Once the SDK downloaded and unzipped, navigate to the directory "example" in the SDK package.

Doug has posted the presentation he gave at Flash on the Beach ". He explains the decompilation of SWF from Flash or Flex and proposes to use some available tools, sample source code, and some advice scurité.

Here is the link to the PDF of the presentation: PDF decompilation Flex.

Tink launched a new website containing all the Flex effects on which he worked.

You can see a first draft of its site at the following address: www.efflex.org.

Currently, there is just a presentation and examples of its Flex effects.

Here is a video where Tink presents what are its effects and how to use them. It also shows how to circumvent the limitations of the Flex framework for the use of effects and using its new classes of effects that can exceed the limits of Flex and to develop new effects very impressive.

You need Flash 8 to view this animation. Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR are also made for you!

Adobe Flex 3 allows us to analyze the memory consumed by your application Flex at your development.

Alex Harui created a SWF to simultaneously view the presentation and learn to use the Profiler. He speaks of the differences between profiler memory System.totalMemory and processes in memory and shows us how he analyzes the 2 main scenarios ammené memory loss.

Watch the presentation here.

The presentation in this SWF is controlled by an XML file. One engine runs on XML parsing and the user interface creates widgets like dictation by the XML. To change the presentation, all that remains to do is change the XML format. The source is available here:

Download FlexBuilder Project

The SWF also demonstrates a technique to improve the startup time of Flex applications.

Hoping that this might help you. Feel free to leave your reactions concerning your best practices for using the Profiler in Adobe Flex 3

Source: Adobe Blog

For a reminder about the different features of the Profiler, I had already written an article on flex info: Using the Profiler in Flex 3

Hello everyone,

Back from vacation, I continue to drink you news which I have the secret
So here is to start the main news from the small world Adobe Flex during my vacation:

1. JeanPhi has posted an example video chat done in Flex / FMS (Flash Media Server). He also made available the sources of his application on his blog.
2. There is finally a magazine for Adobe Flex and Flex Authority is appointed. You can subscribe here for more ...
3. RicoOnFlex has posted the first part of a course on the use of PureMVC in Adobe Flex.
4. New sample applications with source code were provided by Adobe at the last MAX in Barcelona.
   We include examples of:
   1. Establishment of customs components
   2. Redefinition of the behavior of the son of a component MXML
   3. Metaprogramming with custom actionscript metadata

You can read more and find examples here: MAX 2007 Samples.

Flash and Flex allow you to create custom classes in order to provide items for repetitive tasks in a simple way. Here is a list of ActionScript 3 custom class that can help you develop better and faster

Read more ...

Since July 7, the solution OpenSource e-commerce Magento offers an API to access the content of shops Magento. This API supports SOAP and XML RPC and provides access directly to customers, orders and product catalog of a Magento site.

An introduction to API is available here.

This API is interesting to integrate Magento with all third-party applications in business and who must interact with a site ecommerce (ERP, CRM, Logistics, etc. ..)

This API will also develop an interface for a site e-commerce or Full Flex to develop a BackOffice Flex for Magento.