MACROMEDIA FLEX BUILDER-USING FLEX BUILDER, Use Manual

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8 Chapter 1: Getting Started with Flex Builder
The Data panel
lets you inspect the data services (such as web services) and data models in the
current MXML file, as well as insert or delete services in the file.
You can work in Design view, Code view, or both.
To switch between Design and Code views:
1.
Open any MXML file in Flex Builder by double-clicking the file in the Files panel
(Window > Files).
2.
If you’re in Code view and you want to work in Design view, do one of the following:
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Click the Design button on the Document toolbar.
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Select View > Design.
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Press ’ (the slanted quotation mark that usually shares the tilde (~) key).
Note: You can’t work on ActionScript files in Design view. Because ActionScript files don’t render
in Flash Player, they would appear blank in Design view. As a result, Flex Builder always displays
ActionScript files in Code view.
3.
If you’re in Design view and you want to work in Code view, do one of the following:
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Click the Code button on the Document toolbar.
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Select View > Code.
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Press ’ (the slanted quotation mark that usually shares the tilde (~) key).
4.
To split the view to see both Design and Code views, do one of the following:
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Click the Split button on the Document toolbar.
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Select View > Code and Design.
5.
To place Code view on a separate monitor, open the Code inspector (Window > Code Inspector
or F10) and position it on the second monitor.
For more information on the coding environment, see “Working with the code in Flex files”
on page 76 . For more information on the visual environment, see Chapter 4, “Building a Flex
User Interface Visually,” on page 95 .