FlashTips #5: Copy Variables in Flash Builder

Have you ever wanted to copy all the values of the member variables of a Class instance you were debugging in Flash Builder? If the data types of those variables are simple, you can do this pretty easily by right-clicking on the variable name in the variables panel and selecting "Copy variables." This will copy the name of each member property and its value to the clipboard. Values that are Strings, Numbers and Boolean work, but XML does not--it just copies "XML" as the value--and I suspect that other complex types will not work well either.

As an example of how to use this, today I wanted to copy the contents of the loaderInfo.parameters (a.k.a. FlashVars) so that I could remind myself of what values are incoming. I right-clicked on the parameters object, copied the variables, and pasted into Notepad for future reference.