FlexOOP

I just installed Subclipse 1.6 in my Flex Builder as there was some conflict between it and my TortoiseSVN install. I like to do my commits and updates via Eclipse so I’m not switching out to my Explorer window for quick commits. If there is any conflict resolution needed, or I need a little more fine grained control, I switch out to Tortoise (as Subclipse doesn’t do as good a job currently).

After I upgraded from Subclipse 1.4 to 1.6, for some reason (I pretty sure it was Subclipse as I didn’t upgrade anything else), it decided that it didn’t like my comment color in CFEclipse or my highlight color and decided to randomly alter those colors to something else…a really weird, dark green for the comment background color and a much darker shade of blue for the text highlight color. To my mild case of OCD, that is just unacceptable Plus it’s just really difficult to read *any* text with a dark green background

If you want to switch these options back to their original colors, do the following:
Window -> Preferences -> CFEclipse -> Editor -> CFML Colours -> CFML Comment Background
I switched this one back to white from dark green.
and
Window -> Preferences -> CFEclipse -> Editor -> Appearance color options -> Selection background color
This one I had to create a new custom color and set it to Red 49, Green 106, and Blue 197 (this, I think, is the windows highlight color).

So far these are the only things I’ve found that it changes. I’ll post new updates if I find anything else.

Gareth Eclipse, Flex Builder CFEclipse, Eclipse, Subclipse

Don’t know how many people this affects, but it’s been annoying me for a while.
When using CFEclipse in Flex Builder/viewing ColdFusion files, line numbers do not show up in the gutter, no matter how many times (or places) that you select “Show Line Numbers”.

In order to fix this, close out of Flex Builder or Eclipse and go to wherever you have Flex Builder preferences installed (which for me was in my “My Documents” on my C: drive), not the main Program Files directory.

This was where mine was located C:\Documents and Settings\(my logged in account)\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings

Once you are in this directory, back up then open up
org.cfeclipse.cfml.prefs

Once inside this, add the line
lineNumberRuler=true
and save the file

Now you can open Flex Builder/Eclipse again, and line numbers should be showing up for you when view ColdFusion files.

Just want to thank Francois Levesque over at http://blog.critical-web.com/blog for this.  This has saved me many headaches.

Gareth Eclipse, Flex Builder CFEclipse, Flex Builder