Dash: Actionscript code scripting in Eclipse

Who was tired of writing out getters and setters constantly? *raise hand*

Who especially didn’t like do it while trying to override commitProperties() and thus had to write a monkey-buttload of xVariableChange booleans for when a property changed? *raise hand*

Who found a really great Eclipse plugin for generating getters/setters, static consts, and other I-really-don’t-want-type-or-even-copy-paste-these-keywords-anymore constructs? *raise hand*

Posted in 2007,  eokyere’s blog post on Dash (the Plugin Formerly Known as Eclipse Monkey) is a nice little intro to the plugin with a little example (showing how you can actually generate getters/setters with minimal work) and a little script (showing how to get Dash to generate getters/setters).

Short, sweet, easy-to-read.  The Dash update site was down supposedly for a while, but as of today, it’s back up and in business on my new copy of Eclipse Galileo (Cocoa, 64-bit).