I have seen in a couple of places that the Flex Builder 3 could provide a split screen, but not a true split screen. Which is not true any more. If you want to edit your code using the “True” split screen mode, that is, you can edit in any duplicate window and it updates automatically.
Real simple, just right click on the tab of your editor and click on the context menu item “New Editor” to create the duplicate, but then, left click-hold and drag the tab down to the BOTTOM of the editor view. This is where I got stuck, so don’t panic. I didn’t realize you must drag it down towards the bottom of the window, until you see a line appear across the editor, then let go…
Hence, my insane preamble the day before. If you would like some more details on the IDE go to McCunes: what-my-eclipseflex-builder-setup-looks-like
I hope someone is helped by this.
Cheers,
HPP
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Hey! I tried it on regular Eclipse (ver. 3.4.2 Ganymede), and it works. I tend not to view the same file in two windows at once, but I do like being able to drag the tabs around to have side-by-side views. I usually like to put them on the left and right instead of top and bottom. Seems to make better use of a wide-screen monitor.
I like seeing as much code as possible at the same time, but not so often two parts of the same file. I get more confused about where things are relative to one another when the view is split. You could have the bottom view showing the top of the file and the top view showing the bottom of the file! Perhaps I’m too linear.
People think and work differently. That’s on reason why Eclipse is nice. It is highly configurable.
Posted 09 Mar 2009 at 5:22 pm ¶Cool. I didn’t really think to drag the tab to make the side by side views. That would work nice with the “quick dif” command to check contents, which I need to try sometime.
Posted 09 Mar 2009 at 5:29 pm ¶Post a Comment