http://www.brandondement.com/blog/2010/01/02/flex-formatter-plugin/ Adventures in software development Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:34:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.brandondement.com/blog/2010/01/02/flex-formatter-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Ernest Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:43:05 +0000 http://www.brandondement.com/blog/?p=90#comment-13 Thanks for the writeup. A couple of comments about your post though: 1. The Format flex code button is for both mxml and actionscript. The format button will also perform the rearrange functions at the same time if that option is checked in the preferences. 2. Indent only affects leading whitespace, whereas format adds and removes newlines and space within a line (in addition to adjusting leading whitespace). 3. Rearrange flex code doesn't format per se. It reorders actionscript class elements, whether they appear in mxml or as files. This is exposed as a separate button because it probably doesn't make sense for most users to reorder their methods every time they format. However, they can set the option that does rearrange while formatting if they want to run the formatter over a large number of files. Thanks for the writeup. A couple of comments about your post though:
1. The Format flex code button is for both mxml and actionscript. The format button will also perform the rearrange functions at the same time if that option is checked in the preferences.
2. Indent only affects leading whitespace, whereas format adds and removes newlines and space within a line (in addition to adjusting leading whitespace).
3. Rearrange flex code doesn’t format per se. It reorders actionscript class elements, whether they appear in mxml or as files. This is exposed as a separate button because it probably doesn’t make sense for most users to reorder their methods every time they format. However, they can set the option that does rearrange while formatting if they want to run the formatter over a large number of files.

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