I m trying to install Flex Builder 3 into Eclipse 3.5.1 as a plugin on Mac 10.6.2.
During the installation phase, FB3 says it only support eclipse 3.3 & 3.4. But I started the installation anyway.
After the installation was done, I can't find Flex perspective from Eclipse. So I google around and found out the possible way to manually add this link file from folder "links" to point to the FB3 Plugin folder. I did that and FB perspective can be shown now. But when I try to switch to FB perspective, error occurs:
Problems opening perspective:
'com.adobe.flexbuilder.editors.mxml.ui.perspectives.development'
Anyone has done this successfully?
Unfortunately Eclipse 3.5 is unsupported by Flex Builder 3. There are a few bugs for this:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-21025
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-21284
Please comment on those bugs and vote for them.
I've created a work-around for one of the major issues related to displaying problems.
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I am using Windows Vista 32bit. I have installed Eclipse Helios Service Release 2.
I need to integrate flex in Eclipse. Can someone show give me steps to install or point me to a good tutorial that explains the process.
Note: I have downloaded flex_sdk_4.6
From your comments it seems FlashBuilder is your tool of choice.
Download it
Go to the FlashBuilder download page to get it. The automatic download will have you download an Akamai software, which is Adobe's download crapware. If you're behind a proxy, you're out of luck: your download won't work. You can get a direct link though: simply cancel the automatic download and on the download page select the "File 1 of 1" link.
Install it
You can find the installation instructions here for both a standalone installation or as an Eclipse plugin: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-builder/release-note/flash-builder-4-6-release.html#main_Install_your_software
You can't really integrate Flex into eclipse without a plug-in - it would let you edit the text files as text, and run the compiler, but you'd have no actual IDE support.
As for plugins/eclipse-based IDEs: Right now, there's Adobe Flash Builder and FDT, which are both good products (they each have different advantages and shortcomings, though -you probably want to try them out and see which fits your needs best), but they are both neither free nor cheap.
Another very good commercial IDE is IntelliJ IDEA, but that's not eclipse-based.
If you need a free IDE for ActionScript on Windows, check out FlashDevelop - it is not quite as sophisticated as the eclipse-based commercial products, but a good start if you want to get into ActionScript, or try out IDE alternatives to Flash.
I want to work with flex from eclipse, could you tell me how to install the flex plugin within eclipse:
What version of eclipse do I need?
Where can I download the flex plugin?
Thanks in advance.
I have not tried Flex with Eclipse, I know for sure you can work with NetBeans IDE using FlexBean plugin. You can find the Eclipse/Flex plugin details below.
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/2005/08/setting-up-eclipse-for-flex.cfm
Hope this helps.
Go to https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flash_builder and download the Eclipse Plug-in of Flash Builder 4.
The installer will allow you to install the plugin into an existing Eclipse installation. One of the installation steps lets you select the Eclipse installation folder.
The system requirements state that the plugin works with "Eclipse 3.4.2 or 3.5". However, in my experience it works fine in Eclipse 3.6 too.
i am really going to be crayz. I did everything to install nightly compiled SDK 4 to FB. When i am going to design mode it says,
Design mode: Cannot load textLayout.swc (reason: ERROR: Load Verify). It may require classes (such as Adobe AIR components) that are not supported by design mode. Check the Eclipse error log for more details.
and also when i'm pressing CTRL+SPACE, code complition is not working.
Do you have an idea?
Have you seen this page: http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/02/using-the-beta-gumbo-sdk-in-flex-builder-3/
(note: I haven't tried Flex 4 yet, so can't really offer much more than google-fu).
The official word is here.
I installed Flex Builder plug in (3.2) into Eclipse 3.4. The installation had no errors, but I get this error when trying to start a new Flex Project.
The selected wizard could not be started.
Plug-in com.adobe.flexbuilder.apollo.ui was unable to load class com.adobe.flexbuilder.apollo.ui.wizards.flex.FlexApolloProjectWizard.
com/adobe/flexbuilder/editors/common/ui/project/wizards/AbstractFlexProjectWizar d
I have tried re-installing several times, even tried the older eclipse versions.
Any thoughts ?
When Flex is installed on a Windows machine, it generates two versions of the Flex SDK, one in C:/Programs Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in and the other in your Eclipse directory (not sure if this is true on a Mac). I've fixed similar issues by copying missing files from the Flex Builder folder into the parallel Eclipse plug-in directory. That would be my first guess.
If that does not work, you may have to contact Adobe.
Sometimes Flex is... terrible. I mean absolutely awful.
There was a major kerfluful with the fact that FlexBuilder would install correctly in Eclipse 3.4. The new Flashbuilder, for version 4 is designed to work with 3.5(galileo), I'm hoping that it will work with Helios, so I will no longer need to keep multiple Eclipse versions going. Here's a link on how to make it work. I just hope we don't have to keep repeating this.
when i open .mxml flex file in eclipse it gives error
Could not open the editor: Assertion failed:
Does any one know about it
First of all you can give which operating System and version, IDE version, Flex plugin version, detail of error message. You can try ;
Check eclipse and flex plugin version compatibility if you use flex plugin. (If you use Linux operating system flex plugin compatible with eclipse 3.3 ide if not You can try to install flex plugin on eclipse 3.3 if you use 3.4 or 3.5 and so on)
You can download full package of flex ide instead of flex plugin on eclipse
I think its better to stop searching when you are in Flash and Linux. Here in this link its very much transparent. I tried all the fix provided out there, nothing did really worked what new comers are looking for.
Details: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/releasenotes.html#sysreq
Note: GUI will never work, which we are thinking and Autocomplete etc will also not work. So Flash and Linux is actually useless and time lose. The best thing is keep reporting Adobe for this. Because they are counting our Linux Vote.
Try changing your current workspace to another one, it helped in my case.
If you have disabled asking for workspace at startup you can change it here:
Window > Preferences > General > Startup and Shutdown
I just got the same error, after moving my project to a new computer. Turns out the build paths needed to be changed in the new computer. After updating those it seemed to fix the problem.
I struggled with this a couple of hours: my own "solution" to this was that I had Eclipse Galilieo / Weblogic 10.3.2 / Windows 7 set up correctly, but was accidently opening an old Eclipse Helios install pointed to the same projects. In other words yes, its likely a slight path difference or a new name for an updated resource along one of your paths. "assertion failed" is such a generic exception that you could get with so many different softwares, that I thought this input wouldnt hurt...