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Contents 1 Aptana Studio Online Help 1.1 Community Resources 1.2 How to use and contribute to the documentation wiki 1.3 Aptana Basics 1.4 Aptana Studio Pro 1.5 Aptana Tutorials 1.6 Getting to know Aptana Studio (General IDE Concepts) 1.7 Displaying Aptana Views 1.8 Navigating Aptana 1.9 Setting your Aptana preferences 1.10 Creating Aptana Projects 1.11 Previewing Aptana projects 1.12 Code Formatting 1.13 Developing with Jaxer 1.14 Debugging your JavaScript code with the Aptana debugger 1.15 Inspecting and debugging with Firebug 1.16 Transferring Files with FTP 1.17 Using Code Assist 1.18 Scripting with Eclipse Monkey 1.19 Using other libraries with Aptana 1.20 RadRails 1.21 RDT (Ruby Development Tools) 1.22 PHP 1.23 Developing Adobe AIR projects 1.24 Developing for the Apple iPhone 1.25 Reference 1.26 Aptana Release Notes 1.27 Aptana credits and acknowledgments

Aptana Studio Online Help

  Additional resources:

• Studio FAQ
• Studio Forums

Community Resources

• Translating Aptana
• Contributing to Aptana development

How to use and contribute to the documentation wiki

Aptana Basics

• Installing Aptana
  • Downloading and installing Aptana Studio
  • Plugging Aptana into an existing Eclipse configuration
  • Installing Aptana on Linux
  • Installing and running Aptana on Vista
  • Updating to Aptana Studio 1.0
  • Upgrading to Aptana Studio Pro
  • Running two versions of Aptana Studio
• Determining your Aptana version
• Aptana System Requirements
• Aptana and RadRails compatibility chart
• Reporting an Aptana bug or requesting a feature
• Updating your version of Aptana
• Reverting to a previous build of Aptana
• Changing your update version type of Aptana
• Using Aptana from behind a web proxy
• Adding a source control plugin to Aptana
• Accessing your Aptana log
• Reporting an error or crash in Aptana
• Changing the VM used with Aptana
• Changing the Aptana Studio interface to a different language
• Installing a plug-in
• Uninstalling a plug-in
• Updating a plug-in

Aptana Studio Pro

• Upgrading to Aptana Studio Pro
• FAQ for upgrading to Aptana Studio Pro
• Installing the IE debugger
• Importing a remote project
• Generating a project report
• Creating a custom project report
• About the Aptana JSON Editor

Aptana Tutorials

• Creating a new AJAX library project
• Enabling Code Assist to work with AFLAX
• Getting started with Aptana and AFLAX
• Getting started with Aptana and jQuery
• Getting started with Aptana and MochiKit
• Getting started with Aptana and Prototype
• Getting started with Aptana and Yahoo UI
• Getting started with the Aptana debugger

Getting to know Aptana Studio (General IDE Concepts)

• Understanding how Aptana works with the Eclipse IDE
• About the Eclipse IDE
• Eclipse community resources
• About plug-ins
  • Quick reference for popular plug-ins
  • Installing a plug-in
• About the Eclipse Workbench
  • About Eclipse Perspectives
  • About Eclipse Views
  • About Eclipse Workspaces
  • About Eclipse Projects
• Changing your Eclipse Perspective
• Switching your workspace
• About the Aptana toolbar
• About the Aptana menubar
• About preferences
• About Editors
• About projects
  • Importing existing projects
  • Building a project
  • Debugging a project

Displaying Aptana Views

• Displaying the Bookmarks View
• Displaying an Editor View
• Displaying Fast Views
• Displaying the File View
• Displaying the Help View
• Displaying the Jaxer Activity Monitor View
• Displaying the Jaxer Shell View
• Displaying the Project View
• Displaying the Outline View
• Managing Plugins with the Plugins Manager View
• Displaying the Properties View
• Displaying the References View
• Displaying the Samples View
• Displaying the Search View
• Displaying the Servers View
• Displaying the Snippets and Scripts Views
• Displaying the Sync Manager View
• Displaying the TailView View
• Displaying the Tasks View
• Displaying the Validation View
• Displaying the Visual ScriptDoc View
• Displaying the Walkthroughs View

Navigating Aptana

• About the Aptana JavaScript Editor
• About the Aptana HTML Editor
• About the Aptana CSS Editor
• About the Aptana PHP Editor
• About the Aptana JSON Editor
• Searching Aptana
• About Local History
  • Setting Local History preferences
  • Comparing different versions of a file using Local History
  • Recovering a deleted file with Local History
• Rolling back a file version
• Navigating open files with Next Editor or Previous Editor
• Using Goto to jump to a location
• Adding a bookmark
• Adding a task
• Searching for files using Open Resource
• About Aptana Snippets
  • Editing with Snippets
  • Adding a new Snippet
  • Editing a Snippet
  • Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a snippet

Setting your Aptana preferences

• Displaying or hiding line numbers
• Viewing code changes with Quick Diff
• Modifying your shortcut keys
• Shortcut key Quick Reference
• Changing the Editor font
• Changing your file association preferences
• Setting your HTML preview preferences
• Adding custom error message filters to the Validation View
• Setting your View Source preferences
• Customizing your colorization preferences
• Customizing your formatting preferences
• Customizing your typing preferences
• Exporting and importing colorization preferences
• Exporting and importing preferences
• Setting your TailView preferences

Creating Aptana Projects

• About Aptana projects
• Creating your first Aptana project
• Creating a new Aptana project
• Importing an existing project from Dreamweaver or HomeSite
• Adding a project reference to your project
• Opening an existing Aptana project
• Importing a file into a project
• Exporting a file from a project
• Creating a working set of projects
• Creating a project from an existing folder
• Creating a new JavaScript file
• Creating a new HTML or CSS file
• Sharing an Aptana project
• Applying a patch to an Aptana project or file
• Creating a new JavaScript library project wizard
• Updating an Ajax library project
• About using a Strict vs. Transitional DOCTYPE in HTML
• Importing existing projects
• Generating a project report
• Creating a custom project report

Previewing Aptana projects

• Setting up your web browser configuration
• Adding a web browser configuration to your Favorites
• Previewing a project in a web browser
• Setting up an external web server to preview PHP and other non-HTML pages
• Previewing PHP, ASP and other non-HTML pages
• Configuring Aptana to use an external web server
• Previewing CSS
• Setting your HTML preview preferences
• Previewing a Jaxer project

Code Formatting

• JavaScript Formatting

Developing with Jaxer

• About the Jaxer server
• Getting Started with Jaxer in Aptana Studio
• Creating a new Jaxer project
• Previewing a Jaxer project
• About Jaxer Views
  • Displaying the Servers View
  • Displaying the TailView View
  • Displaying the Jaxer Activity Monitor View
  • Displaying the Jaxer Shell View
• Configuring your Jaxer servers
• Setting your TailView preferences
• JaxerManager_Command_Line_Interface_(CLI) Reference
• Running the Jaxer server diagnostic tools

Debugging your JavaScript code with the Aptana debugger

• About the JavaScript debugger
• JavaScript debugger feature comparison
• About the Aptana Debug perspective
  • Using the Debug View
  • Using the Variables View
  • Using the Breakpoints View
  • Using the Expressions View
  • Using the Console View
  • Using the AJAX Monitor View
• Installing the JavaScript debugger
• Installing the IE debugger
• Uninstalling the debugger
• Running the debugger
• Accessing your debugger log
• Stepping into and over functions
• Adding a breakpoint
• Using the Assert API
• Remote browser debugging

Inspecting and debugging with Firebug

• About Firebug
• Installing the Firebug extension
• Inspecting HTML
• Inspecting CSS
• Stepping through your code
• Adding watch expressions
• Monitoring XMLHttpRequests
• Editing a web page
• Writing to the Firebug console
• Setting breakpoints in Firebug
• Profiling code performance
• Firebug hotkey reference

Transferring Files with FTP

• About the Aptana FTP tool
• Adding an FTP site
• Adding a site connection
• Synchronizing your files
• Editing a file from a remote site
• Uploading or downloading a file or folder
• Cloaking files or folders
• Setting remote file permissions
• Importing a remote project

Using Code Assist

• About Code Assist
• Displaying Code Assist
• Setting up Code Assist using ScriptDoc
• Documenting your code using ScriptDoc
• Documenting your code in an .sdoc file
• Documenting dynamic properties and functions with ScriptDoc
• Documenting inheritance with ScriptDoc
• Using Open Declaration to jump to a function in your code
• ScriptDoc comprehensive tag reference
• ScriptDoc tag quick reference
• Generating HTML documentation from ScriptDoc

Scripting with Eclipse Monkey

• About Eclipse Monkey
• About the Eclipse Monkey sample projects
• Creating a new Eclipse Monkey script
• Adding metadata to an Eclipse Monkey script
• Tips and tricks for writing Eclipse Monkey scripts
• Eclipse Monkey scripting with Ruby
• Example scripts
  • Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a snippet
  • Wrapping selected text
  • Toggling word wrap

Using other libraries with Aptana

• About AFLAX
• About Dojo
• About jQuery
• About MochiKit
• About Prototype
• About Rico
• About script.aculo.us

RadRails

• RadRails FAQ
• Aptana and RadRails compatibility chart
• Helpful RadRails links
• Mac OS X Tips
• About RadRails
• Installing and configuring RadRails
  • Installing RadRails on Ubuntu Linux
  • Integrating RadRails with Aptana
  • Configuring your RadRails setup
  • Uninstalling RadRails
• Getting started with RadRails
  • Tutorial: Getting started rolling with Ruby on Rails in RadRails
  • Tutorial: Setting up the Cookbook database in RadRails
  • Starting a new RadRails project
  • Importing an existing project into RadRails
  • Building an application in RadRails
  • Running a unit test on RadRails
  • Creating and running a WEBrick server
  • Executing SQL statements in RadRails
  • Browsing a database in RadRails
  • Using a Mongrel server
• Using RadRails Views
  • Using the RadRails Console View
  • Using the Servers View
  • Using the Generators View
  • Using the Rails Plugins View
  • Using the RegExp View
  • Using the Rake Tasks View
  • Using the Ruby Explorer View
  • Using the Rails Shell View
• About the Ruby Profiler Perspective
  • Using the Call Graph View
  • Using the Hot Spots View
• Configuring the Eclipse SQL Explorer plug-in for RadRails
  • Installing the SQL Explorer plug-in
  • Deploying ConnectorJ
  • Creating a new driver in Eclipse
  • Creating a new connection in SQL Explorer
  • Connecting to the database application
  • Using SQL Explorer
• Fast Rails Debugging using Aptana Rails IDE
• Eclipse Monkey scripting with Ruby

RDT (Ruby Development Tools)

• Getting Started with RDT
  • Preparing the RDT Workbench
  • Important Ruby Settings
• Ruby development concepts
  • Ruby projects
  • Ruby gems
  • Ruby perspectives
    • Ruby Perspective
    • Ruby Debug Perspective
    • Ruby Browsing Perspective
  • Ruby Resources View
  • RHTML Editor
  • Ruby Editor
    • Ruby code completion
    • Ruby code formatting
    • Ruby code folding
    • Ruby go to declaration
    • Ruby find references
    • Ruby open type
    • Ruby custom syntax highlighting
    • Ruby quick outline
  • Ruby Console View
  • Ruby Outline View
  • Ruby Gems View
  • Ruby Call Hierarchy View
  • RI View (Ruby development)
  • Ruby Search
  • Syntax Errors and Problems View (Ruby development)
  • Task List (Ruby development)
  • Running a Ruby application
    • Starting from Ruby Resource View
    • Starting from main menu (Ruby)
    • Run configuration (ruby)
  • Running a Test::Unit Test (Ruby)
    • Starting from Ruby Resource View
    • Starting from main menu (Ruby)
    • Running a Test::Unit Test Run Configuration (Ruby)
  • Ruby Debugger
    • Ruby debugger prerequisites
    • Starting a Ruby debug session
    • Ruby Debug Views
    • Automatic Ruby code reloading
    • Inspection shortcuts (Ruby)
    • Debugging into ruby libraries
    • Known Ruby debugging limitations

PHP

• PHP extensions embedded with Aptana Studio
  • CGI extensions
  • CLI extensions

Developing Adobe AIR projects

• About Adobe AIR
• Getting started with AIR development
• Configuring the AIR runtime
• Creating an AIR project
• Running an AIR application
• Exporting an AIR project

Developing for the Apple iPhone

• About Apple iPhone development
• Installing the iPhone plug-in
• Previewing an iPhone sample project
• Creating a new iPhone project
• Creating an iPhone run configuration
• Viewing a project on your iPhone
• Using console logging for the iPhone

Reference

• HTML Entities
• URL Escape Codes
• Scripting Aptana
• DHTML Cookbook
  • Overlay an Image on Rollover
• Libraries
  • Prototype ScriptDoc

Aptana Release Notes

• Known Issues
• Known Issues for Eclipse 3.3 users

Aptana credits and acknowledgments

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