associate Flash CS3 with new Flash Player Debug

[anyuser]

Hi,
Quite undocumented supject - How do you associate (or target) Flash CS3 IDE with updated FlashPlayer.exe?

I've downloaded updated players from adobe website. My Flash CS3 was using Flash Player 9.0.28 so I wanted to update it to say 9.0.115 or 9.0.124

To do so, I replaced the original files from Program Files>Adobe>Flash CS3>Player with new ones but when I run debugging from Flash IDE (ctrl+enter+shift) Flash Player prompts that couldn't find the debugger, and wants some IP address of where the debugger is running. "Where is the debugger or host application running" - [*Localhost *Other]

I could only make it work with 9.0.45 version (paste into Flash CS3 Player dir) of Flash Player, but you can't really consider it a huge update from 9.0.28 ;)

Is is there any way to make Flash CS3 recognize new, updated Flash Player Debug? I was trying to run .exe files from Windows>SysWOW64>Macromed>Flash but it didn't help either.

Hope there is some solution to this, it really drives me mad, and can't find any info about the subject. You would think that updating ones Flash Players is of a high importance... but maybe not, hence no documentation at all :)

Cheers!

[DjevBunny]

Oh my goodness. Exactly the same problem as me, and as I've seen no other responses to your query elsewhere online, infuriatingly no solutions. I feel like I've lost years of my life trying to solve this problem - very poorly documented and no solutions anywhere on the net seemed to work...

Anyway, finally what (seems to have!) worked for me, in the sense that it at least recognises breakpoints again (still can't get it to "connect"), after about a million uninstalls/re-installs etc, was this:-

- restart Flash
- open your project
- select DEBUG -> REMOVE ALL BREAKPOINTS IN ALL FILES

then re-add breakpoints as needed. Goodness knows if this is a permenant solution or not as it happened before as well but now it is debugging with Flash 9.0.159...

[_forumSteve]

I just experienced the same or a very similar problem. In my case the debug player would connect from the IDE, but ignore all breakpoints. I didn't have any luck with restarting and removing breakpoints. I had limited success by disconnecting the player from the debugger and then reconnecting. In certain files it would break at a breakpoint, but I would not see the yellow arrow and after stepping in a few times, the player would crash.

I reinstalled CS3, which as mentioned, did not help at all. Then I uninstalled CS3 and deleted every folder in "program files\common" and "adobe" that appeared to be related to CS3. I also deleted several folders in the hidden "local settings" folder under my user. After doing that... a new install is working fine.

I also replaced the "players" folder with r159 players and it still appears to be working fine.

Unfortunately, I don't recall what I updated or installed (if anything) that broke the connection.