Open multiple instances of flex builder on OSX

Published on July 18th, 2009 by DannyT. Filed under Development Tools, Flex

I keep various workspaces in Flex Builder for things like client projects, tests, examples etc. Sometimes it’s a pain to have to restart FB just to check something from one workspace, so to be able to have two (or more) workspaces open at a time you can launch multiple instances of flex builder by doing the following:

cd /Applications/Eclipse [or your path to flex builder folder]
./eclipse &

One Response to “Open multiple instances of flex builder on OSX”

asciiman

March 2nd, 2010 at 7:33 pm

Great tip! Thanks.
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