If you’re looking to launch Eclipse passing in the -clean parameter on OS X you’ll want to cd into the eclipse directory that contains your Eclipse.app package and use the following syntax in bash or your favorite shell terminal:
./eclipse -clean -vmargs -XstartOnFirstThread
The arguments following ./eclipse are all passed to Eclipse and the arguments following -vmargs [...]
The other day I kept on getting annoying “out of heap space” errors in Eclipse while running a memory intensive Java application I had written and it took a bit of searching to find the answer, so I thought I’d make a quick screencast that demonstrates how to increase the heap size of the JVM [...]
I was bored and wanted to check out the latest ASDT features / fixes, so I downloaded the ASDT source files from CVS and figured out how to compile them for use in Eclipse. I put together a Camtasia Studio video tutorial of the whole procedure which can be cound via the link below. [...]
I finally got around to setting up my Eclipse environmet using the new ASDT .8 plugin auto-update feature. There are a few gotchas which I stumbled upon along the way, so I decided to create a captivate tutorial covering installation, configuration and use in addition to the outline that follows:
ASDT .8 auto [...]
I’m sure this is old hat for all the “real” developers in the Flash community, but I recently began exploring downloading source files from CVS and Subversion using Eclipse. CVS and Subversion are version control repositories which allow you to track the history of source files. They are especially useful for teams where multiple developers [...]
One of the more useful features of the Eclipse platform is the organizational capabilities it gives you. In particular, Working Sets allow you to group your projects together in logical categories or sets. What’s really nice is that a project can belong to more that one Working Set which allows you enormous flexibility in how [...]
I just installed the 7.1 release of the ASDT Editor plugin for Eclipse and noticed a feature which is either new, or that I was unaware of previously. You can now auto generate getters / setters for all private properties in the same manner that the Eclipse Java Editor allows you to. In order [...]
Editor templates are simply code templates which can be invoked by typing in a shortcut command (i.e. “singleton” or “class”) and hitting CTRL+ SPACE on your keyboard. The are some useful default templates which are part of the ASDT plugin editor, but I’ve found that everything really needs to be modified to taste and customized to reflect user specific attributes.