Pig Development

I’m certainly not a fan of anything writing out code for me, but when it comes to Getter and Setter functions, it can get a bit tedious.  Flash Builder 4 comes with a command that will generate that code for you. To do so, position your cursor inside your variable, then select Source->Generate Getter/Setter. It even adds the underscore before your private variable, which I do anyway so I like that. This is all great, but I can’t stand the way Flash Builder formats code.  There seems to be two camps when it comes to code formatting. One places opening curly braces on the next line, the other does not. Here is a great post by Grant Skinner on the topic.  Personally, I keep the open curly brace on the same line and Flash Builder does not. I’ve come to just deal with reformatting when FB creates my new classes, it’s like second nature now, but now that I have this getter/setter feature, I’d really like to change the way it formats.

FB4 also has an Event Handler Generator which comes up in your code hinting inside MXML.