I’ve obviously been using Swiz quite a bit lately and recently I added SourceMate to my arsenal of Flex tools — if you don’t know what SourceMate is, just think of what a good Java IDE can do and envision Flash Builder being able to do the same — it’s basically like feeding Flash Builder steroids or Big Papi in 2007 with PEDs. Anyways, here’s a quick list of goodies that it adds to the IDE.

Well my favorite set of enhancements is without a doubt the MetataData Features:

• Metadata Content Assist
• Metadata Tag Validation
• Import/Export Tag Configuration

No more trying to remember the exact syntax for custom metadata for frameworks like Swiz…and even better is the fact that the Swiz doods at UM created a metadata config/preferences XML file for you to import to just start your Swiz project with SourceMate. Grab the file here from the Swiz Github repo and simply add it to your projects’s SourceMate preferences: Project Properties -> SourceMate -> Metadata -> Import… browse for the file and boom, you’r
e good to go!

SourceMate Metadata -> Import Swiz Configs

Nice work Swiz doods.

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