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Cyanide
05-06-2007, 09:21 PM
I'm not sure if this is the place to ask for this kind of help, but frankly I'm at my wits end with this software and I don't care.

My problem is that I recently tried installing Flash CS3, which did not work at all. The installer wouldn't even function. I'm insanely disappointed in adobe's recent releases, which IMO were done for marketing purposes, not because they had great new features to release. Anyhow, the failed installation of CS3 seems to have screwed up my existing installation of Flex 2 somehow. So I reinstalled that, twice. And now I can not get the stupid thing to connect to the debugger. First it was giving me an error that it could not find the proper debugging version of the flash plugin in my Firefox plugin folder. So I downloaded the debug version from adobe's site and installed it. However, it installed to some other location. So I went and copied the DLL to the folder that flex wanted it in. So now it runs without giving me that error, but it comes up with this window asking me what machine the debugging host (which I assume is flex) is running on. When I tell it localhost, or 127.0.0.1, it just asks again. What the hell is going on? How do I fix it. And where do I send the scathing hate mail I'm about to write to adobe on a giant piece of sand paper that they can shove straight up their a$$. :mad:

Any help would be appriciated.

Macromedia would never have released products like this.

Mortimer Jazz
06-05-2007, 09:15 AM
The post and comments here may help:

http://nwebb.co.uk/blog/?p=43
and
http://nwebb.co.uk/blog/?p=44

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You can usually clear that error by closing your browser and performing a clean of the project (project->clean), although in your case it sounds as if there is a deeper cause underlying this issue.

I hope the above posts help

Cheers,
Neil

dr_zeus
06-05-2007, 05:58 PM
Also, the failed installation of Flash CS3 may have installed the non-debug Flash player. That doesn't screw up your Flex Builder install, it just means FB doesn't have a player to talk to for debugging.

You can download the latest version of the debug player (http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html) or get it from your Flex SDK installation under the "Players" folder I believe, to fix it.