Flash Builder 4 Code Hinting Pitfall

Working with Flash Builder 4 I hit a small pitfall in my development, no this isn’t a bug or anything huge, but something that tripped me up.

As a notoriously bad speller I like to see the code hinting popup and confirm what I am typing is correct. However this didn’t happen when I tried working with the
This “bug” has been filed by many different users and the solution is quite simple (See the bug report here). Here is the response I received from Adobe:

Jonathan,

This happens with a few other Halo controls as well. The general theory is that the Halo/mx Text control has a Spark equivalent, so users would be more likely to use one of the Spark versions instead. Same with the Halo HGroup/VGroup/ComboBox, etc.

mx:Text –> s:SimpleText, or s:RichText, or s:RichEditableText (depending on your needs). SimpleText and RichText aren’t editable/selectable, and SimpleText doesnt should HTML markup, whereas RichText and RichEditableText do.
mx:HBox/mx:VBox –> s:HGroup/s:VGroup.
mx:ComboBox –> s:DropDownList.

Peter

You can find the toggle option within your Eclipse settings at Flash Builder > Editors > MXML Code > Advanced, if you toggle off “recommended” you will see all the Halo components in a Gumbo project:

I hope this helps others not freak out when getting into Flash Builder 4.