Flex Package Explorer

The Flex Package explorer exposes all Flex projects in the workspace in a hierarchical tree. For each Flex project the explorer displays all project packages, classes and interfaces. Each class displays its members including variables, functions and constants. Project classes defined in the Flex frameworks or SWC libraries linked into the project are displayed under the Flex/Framework folder.

The Flex Package Explorer is a main part of the Enterprise IDE perspective. It is located by default in the top left quadrant of the Flex Builder window, on the left of the main editor area. It is also available for display from other perspectives by clicking on the Flex Package Explorer icon on the toolbar, by choosing the Show View menu item on the Window menu or by using the Show Flex Package Explorer in the Enterprise Flex menu.

Most of the functionality of the Enterprise Flex plugin is accessible from the Flex Package Explorer context menus (for project, package, class, variable and function). The "Generate getter and setter" action for variables is only available from the variable context menu.

Any source file can be opened in an editor by double clicking the respective node in the explorer tree or right clicking the node to access the class context menu.

Note: The context menus or double click action are not available for classes/interfaces defined in the Flex/Flash Framework or in a SWC library dependency.

Usage

Select Enterprise IDE > Show Flex Package Explorer View in the top menu or

Click the Flex Package Explorer icon in the toolbar.

The Flex Package Explorer will appear. It is a view so it can be manipulated as any other Eclipse view, including dragging to a new position, maximizing, resizing etc. the view can be refreshed by using the "Refresh" button. As mentioned above double click on a class or interface node to display the class or interface contents in an editor.