Customizing File Templates

${date}

Current date

Feb 15, 2009

${year}

Current year

2009

${time}

Current time

3:15 PM

${file_name}

Name of the newly created file

HelloWorld.mxml

${project_name}

Name of the Flex or ActionScript project

Hello_World_Project

${user}

Username of the author

jdoe

$$

${dollar}

Dollar symbol

$

${application}

${component}

${module}

Specifies the application, component, or module MXML tag names.

For a web application, ${application} expands to “Application.”

For a desktop application, ${application} expands to “WindowedApplication.”

${component} expands to “Component.”

${module} expands to “Module.”

These tags are typically used to position the starting and closing tags of a file.

The following:

<${application} ${xmlns}${wizard_attributes}${min_size}> 
${wizard_tags} 
 
</${application}>

expands to:

<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" 
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo" minWidth="1024" minHeight="768"> 
<s:layout> 
    <s:BasicLayout/> 
</s:layout> 
 
</s:Application>

${xml_tag}

XML version

${xmlns}

Resolves to the namespace definition, based on the project's Flex SDK type and the namespace prefix defined in Preferences.

For a Flex 4 SDK project:

xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"

${min_size}

Minimum size of an MXML web application.

${ns_prefix}

Namespace prefix for the project’s Flex SDK.

You cannot change the default values for this variable.

For Flex 3: mx:

For Flex 4: fx:

${wizard_attributes}

Specifies the position of the attributes defined by the New File wizard.

For a new web application:

${application} ${xmlns}${wizard_attributes}>

expands to:

<Application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" layout="vertical">

${wizard_tags}

Specifies the layout property for containers defined by the New File wizard

For a new application using Flex 4 SDK:

<s:layout>

<s:BasicLayout/>

</s:layout>

${package_declaration}

Generates the package declaration.

For a file in the com/samples package, generates:

package com.samples

${import_declaration}

For a new ActionScript class or ActionScript Interface, generates required import declarations .

For a subclass of TextBox, generates:

import flex.graphics.TextBox;

${interface_declaration}

For a new ActionScript interface, generates the interface declaration.

For a new Interface that extends IButton interface, generates:

public interface IMyButton extends IButton

${class_declaration}

For a new ActionScript class, generates the class declaration.

For a new subclass of CheckBox, generates:

public class MyCheckBox extends CheckBox

${class_body}

Generates all the required statements for a new class.

For a new subclass of Button that implements the IBorder interface, generates the following for the class body:

public function MyButton() {    super(); } public function get borderMetrics():EdgeMetrics {    return null; }

${interface_name}

${class_name}

${package_name}

Specifies the interface, class, or package name.

Typically used when generating comments.

For example, the following template specification:

/*  * ${class_name} implements. . .  */

generates the following code:

/*  * MyButton implements. . .  */

${css_namespaces}

Defines namespaces for Spark and Halo style selectors.

Default values for Flex 3:

""

(In Flex 3, namespace declarations are not required in CSS files)

Default values for Flex 4:

@namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"; 
@namespace mx "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo";