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Flash Builder: Wrong Debug Player!

Joseph Labrecque — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0000

Every once in a while, Flash Builder loses its mind when I attempt to debug a project and tells me that I don’t have a debug version of Flash Player on my machine. I do… FB is just crazy. Right.

Sometimes it’s looking at the player running in the browser, in which case I just need to perform a debug player install from:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

Other times, it’ll be pissed off about the player used by Flash Professional at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players

I’ve found a pretty foolproof (for me) way to fix this secondary problem. Just grab FlashPlayer.exe from:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder {such and such release}\player\win

Copy this into the Flash Pro location, restart FB, and you should be good.

Don’t know why this happens from time to time… but it’s happened enough that I feel the need to document it- at least for myself.

What’s Up with Flash Player 10 Final???

Joseph Labrecque — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:53:26 +0000

It seems a lot has changed from the release candidates to the final version- a lot of things people did not expect. For instance, last minute surprise changes to the Sound API… and then the previously announced security changes that Adobe has, in fairness, warned us about since Flash Player 9.

I’ve stumbled across something that I cannot understand in one of our Java applications. This is something that worked fine in 10.0.0.525 but is now broken in 10.0.12.36:

Simply put- a SWF (any SWF) that has loaded just fine in all previous versions of the Flash Player (including FP10 RC builds) now completely fails to load. I’ve looked at a number of different things but cannot figure this one out!

I’ll update this as I find answers.

Flex Builder 3 – “Building Workspace” Limbo

Joseph Labrecque — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:23:31 +0000

I have this problem with Flex Builder 3. If I have “Build Automatically” checked under “Project”, my workspace gets stuck in this “Building Workspace” limbo and can never launch any projects for testing unless I toggle this setting back off.

I’ve had the feature disabled for a few months now, but with the release of AIR 1.1 and the Flex 3.0.2 SDK, I decided to try and enable it again. Unfortunately, this has had no affect on this particular issue- so it must be more FB-related than SDK-related.

If anyone has any insight on this issue- I’m all ears.