setting up the Flex facet in IntelliJ 7

Note: this was originally posted February 6, 2008 on my old blog.

One of the new features of IntelliJ 7 is the support for Adobe's Flex language. You can enable this support by going to the project properties and adding a Flex facet, where you can specify the path to the Flex SDK. I set it up, but there was none of the expected IDE help for the ActionScript classes: no code-completion, class/type suggestions, not even syntax highlighting. Some Googling reveals a few more requirements: the JavaScript support plugin must be enabled (which it was) and the File Type needs to be registered for *.as files. In my setup, it was set to "Text files", adding the file pattern to JavaScript files (with a prompt asking if you'd like to reassign it from the existing text files setting -- very nice) and hitting OK then set off a somewhat lengthy parse of the ActionScript classes in the project. The Flex support is now working.

Kudos to Serge Baranov for the extremely quick support response and helpful guidance.

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