Flex in Eclipse tips

2009
02.12

I’ve been working with Eclipse (and the Flex Plugin) for a while now, but today I started to make it work for me. Some of the things I did:

Installed the Eclipse Notepad Plugin so I have a nice scratchpad for copy/paste and whatnot
Since I’m in a dual monitor environment, I pulled a lot of the tabs into their own window. Now I have 4 windows. On the main screen is my Editor & Navigator, on the second screen is the Problems, Notepad (see #1), and “Misc” window (everything else is docked in the Misc). I then saved this as a perspective
Added a “Internal” working set to my Navigator so I didn’t have to deal with the libraries that we import.
Exported my Prefs using File->Export->Preferences so I can import them into other workspaces.
Installed KyrSoft’s Eclipse Status & Memory Monitors so I could watch my memory usage (and trigger Garbage Collection if needbe)

So far, I like what I’ve done, and now I’m using both monitors all the time rather than just when I’m debugging.

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