The lowest flash player supported by Flex builder

[kotime42]

Hi all,

I use flex builder 3 to create an Actionscript project, and IDE will automatically build *.swf for me.

But, when I look into the html it generates, I found that the required version of fp is like those below (v9.0.28):

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Globals
// Major version of Flash required
var requiredMajorVersion = 9;
// Minor version of Flash required
var requiredMinorVersion = 0;
// Minor version of Flash required
var requiredRevision = 28;
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// -->
</script>


So, it seems that flash player 8 doesn't work when you use flex builder, right?
Or could we find a workaround to support browsers which installed fp8 or lower versions? Thanks!

[grilldor]

I think you should save yourself alot of trouble and start coding for flash 9, it has over 98.6% vs 99% for flash 8. Were already as version 10. People have to move up!

[lordofduct]

Flex Builder 3 assumes you're building an AS3 project, which needs FP9.

If you want FP8 you need to write in AS2 which means you need to use the Flex2 SDK. When you create a project select the option to configure your flex SDK, and mark it to be a Flex 2 project.

Though I agree with grilldor, move on to Flex 3 and FP9. AS3 is the future and yet another reformation of the language is coming soon with the likes of what is appearing in Flash CS4 with the faux-3D capabilities. I'm still waiting for better OpenGL damn it!!!!

[kotime42]

Yes, thank you guys. I just consider some old guys with older fp versions.