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FDT Tip: Boost Your Code Assist

October 23rd, 2008 · 14 Comments · FDT, Tutorials

This is the tip that I loved most from what I discovered, so naturally it’s the first that I’m posting. :D

FlashDevelop’s code assist is awesome. After you type two characters, it will automatically pop up the code assist to help you complete the job. It was in fact so awesome, I almost couldn’t pull myself away to use FDT for big projects.

For the uninitiated, to trigger the code assist in FDT, you have to press the Ctrl-Space, or a period “.”. That seriously hindered my productivity and quickly became my biggest gripe, which is understandable if you compare to how FlashDevelop handles it.

After digging around the settings, I found gold. ;) Here’s how to boost up your FDT’s code assist to perform just as superbly as FlashDevelop’s.

First go to:
Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Editor -> Code Assist
FDT Code Assist

In the field “Auto activation triggers for AS2:”, change the “.” to anything that you want!

For mine, I changed it to:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_.:

a-z : covers all my typing needs
_ : covers property names
. : covers after every dot notation
: : covers data typing

So there you have it! This small little change gave me at least a 25% coding speed boost without all the Ctrl-Space, Ctrl-Space, Ctrl-Space! :D

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14 Comments so far ↓

  • Jenson // Oct 23, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Hey, that’s awesome, and throughout my life I really like the “code assist” in the IDE I’ve ever used before. JCreator, Visual Studio, Flex Builder, haha..

    But well, after seeing the demo during The ActionScript Conference 2008 Singapore I really was amazed by how efficient can make one code, you must consider yourself lucky ok, you just won yourself a free Enterprise license ;-) While other people need to purchase from them =p

  • bartekd // Oct 23, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Hey man, that’s an awesome tip! Thanks.

  • john // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    SUPERB!!

  • bubbleboy // Dec 9, 2008 at 2:21 am

    good stuff!

  • Bob // Feb 14, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    Great tip! thnx

  • biteuljiouce // Mar 24, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    many thanks :)

  • Jerry // May 12, 2009 at 5:43 am

    WOW! This is the best software tip ever for me! I worked with Flashdevelop for 3 Years now and *had* to change to Mac (because of my new employer). I *hated* eclipse for all the “ctrl space here, ctrl space there”. You saved my ass big time!!!

    This is gold! Thank you very, very much! :)

  • Kodjo // Aug 30, 2009 at 10:16 pm

    Cool tip!
    Many thanks.

  • John Barrett // Oct 10, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    I just switched full time to FDT, I loved it before finding this, but this tip is the best I have seen saving me so much time!

    thank you so much for sharing this tip. I love this!
    Johnny

  • LaptopAces // Oct 31, 2009 at 4:00 am

    Thanks! Its realy cool. I think you make realy hard work.

  • funkybudda // Dec 8, 2009 at 12:20 am

    I dont see this option in my FDT 3.5 beta install, can anyone here point me in the right direction?

  • funkybudda // Dec 8, 2009 at 6:19 am

    nm, I figured it out.

  • kikko // Jan 29, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    woooow THANKS !!!!

  • jimmi heiserman // Apr 27, 2011 at 5:00 am

    I too had the same problem, being forced to leave FlashDevelop behind for a Mac. I am using Flash Builder 4.5. Is there a similar trick for Flash Builder? Perhaps I will just try FDT in the meantime. I can not find anything as superb as Flash Develop. Auto completes even when you misspell, organizes the auto complete window by what you recently used, and you can even type a word that is contained within a word, such as “big” will trigger and bubble up “getBigFunction()” in the auto complete.