Using the Bookmarks View in Flex Builder 3 for your presentations

I'm setting up the demo assets I'll show  in my speech  at the FOTB conference in Brighton. 
In a presentation where the speaker has to show a lot of code buried in several different classes it's extremely useful to have the ability to quickly  access to the right line of code.
That avoids the speaker from wasting a lot of time searching for the code or the file he needs and from those  embarrassing and long silences  ;)

This is where the Bookmarks View (panels in Eclipse IDE are called Views) of Eclipse and Flex Builder as well comes in handy.
The Bookmarks View is not opened by default in the Flex Builder Flex Development perspective. So you have to open it from the menu Windows > Other > Bookmarks.
Once opened, you'll be able to create a boomark choosing the file or the code fragment you want to point to. Then select from the menu Edit > Add Bookmark and a reference to the selected object is inserted into the Bookmarks View.
Now that you've bookmarked your file or code, a click on the bookmark is enough to quickly open and point to it.

Don't ask me why I did not use this feature in my previous presentations because I don't know :)

Comments

[Benz]

Hey very useful thanks!

[Chris Foster]

Thanks Marco! - It also works fine with Eclipse... To view the Bookmarks panel select Window/Show View/Other, then open the 'General' node and choose Bookmarks.

Adding is the same as your method but I found I needed to double-click the bookmark to activate it.

[Joeflash]

I'm using Flex Builder 3 standalone(PC), and there is no such command in my Edit menu. I got the Bookmarks view to come up, and the Keys preferences (Pref>General>Keys) indicate there should be such a command in the Edit menu, but it isn't there. Is this a FB bug? How do I add a bookmark?

[James Sun]

I had the same issue that Joeflash described above. I still don't know why the Add Bookmark menu item doesn't appear, but I discovered that I could right-mouse button on the left-hand side of the editor (where you add/delete breakpoints) and add bookmarks/tasks that way.