Allope,
I've recently bough Flex Builder 3 and I am completely dissatisfied with its reluctance to debug. It manages to debug a few times, but after that, it just doesn't want to "connect to the debugger".
Help?
There is no easy fix for this. You now have to join the rest of us waiting for Adobe to update Flex Builder with a fix they say they have.
You can find the long sad story here: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-16153:
Basically, this is an issue that has been around for months. Adobe says it has a fix - however - they've not released that fix yet. Adobe reports it's a threading issue...
For the rest of us (waiting for this) - if you need to move forward you can:
A) Live with the problem (painful)
1) Note that in the bug text there are several attempts to work around this - sometimes people find ways to soften the issue - but no one reports a full fix
2) Note that people trying the LocalHost fix - sometimes report a gain in productivity - but in most cases they do not.
B) Switch SDKs from 3.2 (or 3.3) to 3.1 ---- No one knows why - but it fixes the problem (you can then include the SWFs you need for 3.2 directly
C) Develop on Mac [Not a smart ass answer - honestly - for whatever reason this bug is not on Flex Builder for the Mac]
Join the bug discussion - on Adobe's site - it's still active as people are still waiting for the fix.
Make sure you have the required Flash Debug Player.
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
If that doesn't help, you might have to re-install Flex Builder.
Are you running it on windows vista? It may be this issue:
http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/03/16/page-cannot-be-found-issue-when-previewing-via-expression-blend.aspx
The page is about silverlight, but I ran into the same issue a while back with the flex debugger, and had to add the following to my host file (which windows defender removed):
127.0.0.1 localhost
This is expanded more upon here:
http://circstar.com/FlashLabUnderground/?p=64
I've had similar problems but every-time it refuses to connect to the debugger i have justed downloaded and reinstalled the flash debugger and it works fine. It's a pain but until adobe do anything what can we do?
Have you the tried FlashDeveloper ide? you can build flex project with it and it quite frankly alot better than flex builder for code writing (not ui work).
Hope this helps
Jon
I'm not sure if you have the same symptoms, but I came across a similar problem on one of our development machines after installing Flex Builder 3. When trying to run our app in debug mode, flex builder took a long time to launch the app and eventually timed out, displaying some message about not being able to connect to the debugger.
I found this solution which worked a treat. While Flex Builder is trying to launch the app:
Go to the browser page containing your app/swf, right-click on the swf to bring up the flash context menu.
Select Debugger
Select Other Machine
Enter 127.0.0.1 in the text field
Click Connect and hopefully it works.
NB: If Flex Builder tried to launch the app in Firefox, the page never appeared. It was only when it launched in Safari that I was able to access the browser page and the flash context menu.
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when searching the internet, i came across the TideSDK which I learnt was made for develoing desktop apps with HTML, CSS & Javascript. As an experienced web designer I downloaded it hoping to begin creating desktop apps with my HTML, CSS & Jscript experience immediately. But, that wasn't the case.
Immediately I launched it I saw just two buttons one to import, the other to create new project. Since I had nothing to import, i opt to create new project. After filling the spaces for project type(project type was fixed on desktop), name, app id, directory, company/personal URL,the Titanium SDK Version was left inactive ( I don't know why but i thought it was minor), I expected to see some spaces to write my codes but none. Rather after saving my changes, I brought to a 'console' which was also inactive. No cursor at all except some buttons with lauch app, kill app, package with Runtime, package without runtime which were all not yielding any result. Infact after clicking each of them, I still remained in the inactive console.
In my curiousity to get things working, I have done many researches on the net without a fruitful result. The best article I have gotten so far is from: http://seyekuyinu.com/how-to-set-up-the-tide-sdk-developing-desktop-applications-with-html5-css3-and-javascript/ but even that did not work fine. I downloaded the Tiv Community App which suppose to serve as the IDE but it could not be installed.The installer always stop on the way. I have tried to instal it on my home laptop and the office desktop but it could not be completed in any of them. Please if you want to reply to this question, i would love you to download the Tiv Community app and see what am talking about. I have also downloaded the helloworld from Github but when I try to import, it gives an error message something like "Importing desktop project, but not desktop SDK found in your system". I downloaded the desktopsdk-1.2.0.C4-win32 but the installer is not work - 'cannot locate application path'.
Please, am curious about this whole project and would appreciate any useful reply. I would also appreciate if TideSDK Developer team could write a comprehensive 'getting started guide' but the guide avaiable now is not meeting up with our curiousity for getting started in SDK. Thanks
Checkout Getting Started Guide http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated/#!/guide/getting_started
TideSDK's latest release version is 1.3.1-beta
You need to download the SDK from http://tidesdk.org and extract the same in appropriate directory as mentioned in getting started guide.
I'm a C++ programmer, but I'm a newbie in Flex. I'm developing a Flex 3 application for a social network using the FlashDevelop. For debugging I'm using the stand-alone FlashPlayer (10.3 debug) downloaded from Adobe. The application is a simple audio player which shows artist/album images.
The application worked properly on both local computer and remote server until I made some layout changes in Main.mxml. I added some HBoxes and changed Image placement. After that the application still works on my local computer, but it doesn't work properly after I upload it to a server.
Application buttons are not highlighted on over/out/click events, images loaded from the Internet are not displayed, text changed dynamically is not displayed, but when I click buttons a sound file is loaded from the internet and starts playing. It looks like some events which are responsible for components displaying are not dispatched, because some part of functionality not related to displaying still works.
To make sure that this is not a server problem, I rolled back to the previous revision. All works fine.
I suppose that this is a known issue, but I have no idea what is the reason.
Could anyone please help me to resolve the issue?
Thanks.
UDP: I observed the issue in IE and FF, I didn't test Opera and Chrome.
Are you tying to access the pixel data of the images in the new version? If so, that might be the problem, as pixel data for loaded images is not (always) accessible so that might throw a security error, which in turns breaks the rest of the interface.
Also, did you try running the remote version in the debugger? If so, is there any exception being thrown?
And no, it's not a known issue, it's the kind of annoying and hard to debug error that you sometime get when using the Flex SDK.
I seem to be having difficulties getting the trace function to output anything to the console in either Eclipse with the Flex Plug-in, Flex Builder, or even FlexBeans (the Netbeans plug-in for Flex). I have removed and then reinstalled the Flash player 10 debugger version for both Firefox and IE, rebooting after uninstalling them and then after re-installing them. I have removed all old versions of Java and updated to the most recent version.
mm.cfg is configured correctly to allow the trace actions to appear in flashlog.txt
I tried removing the Flex Plug-in for eclipse to re-install, and now that I re-installed, I cannot create new Flex projects. I would rather not uninstall Flex Builder for fear that it will also behave strangely.
ANY ideas would be useful. Ideally, I need the plug-in to work, but any way I could get tracing to output to the console (in ANY IDE) would be better than what I have now.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Flash debugger for both Firefox and IE"; are you referring the debugger versions of the Flash Player available here?
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
If not, you definitely need those installed in order to be able to write trace() output to the IDE console.
I'm almost positive that this is not the issue, but it has confused me on a couple of occasions.
The Debug Application (as opposed to Run Application) keyboard command is different on Mac and PC. I use both and have gotten them mixed up, which results in my Running when I think I am Debugging, which of course leads to know trace outputs in the console.
Most likely not it, but doesn't hurt to mention it (I hope) :)
-- Evan
How are you testing the debugger? Have you tried going somewhere like with lots of ads that generally still have their traces in? Or are you just testing it with your own swfs? Have you installed the projector debug version? How is eclipse / flex configured to launch test swfs? Is it in the browser, or in the stand alone player? Do you have any weird mxmlc settings?
I assume you've followed all these instructions?
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/193/tn_19323.html
This is actually a combination of issues. The minor issue was that one application was interfering with Flex Builder Plug-in. The major issue had to do with a setting which had gotten changed on the Flash debugger.
If you right-click the running SWF and then click Debugger, you can (essencially) tell the VM where to listen for trace actions. This had been set to another machine on the network, and not my local machine. As soon as that was switched, everything restored itself.
I have installed Flex Builder 3 and Flash Player 10 on my machine.
I don't know where the trace output goes because I just don't see it (I tried debug and output windows).
Also the breakpoints don't hit.
Salut Omule :)
If you press the Debug Icon(the bug thingy) or go to Run > Debug you should go to the Debugging perspective.
If might be handy to install the Flash Tracer plugin for Firefox to see your traces from the browser.
First you need to make sure you have the Debug version of Flash Player 10. You can do that by checking is Debugging is true using this test.
You can view traced messages in the console (Menubar - Window - Console).
But since you said that breakpoints are not hit, I guess the problem is somewhere else. Make sure that you are debugging instead of running the app (select Debug from the Run menu or just hit F11 while at the corresponding mxml file).
If that doesn't help, and if you are on Firefox, try uninstalling the last addon that you installed. Some addons (including older versions of google toolbar and adblock plus) have known to block swfs from connecting to the flex builder's debugger.
Flex Builder often fails to connect to the app that it's supposed to debug. After a minute or so it times-out and says that it couldn't connect. The only way I can get it to stop doing this is by restarting Eclipse.
Very annoying. Anyone know why this is?
I'm using FB 3.1 and Firefox on Win XP.
Many thanks!
This became an issue with Firefox 3, and the general workaround is to start disabling Firefox extensions until it works. I've found that the AdBlock and IETab extensions interfered with Flex debugging; once those were disabled in Firefox's Add-On Manager, things got better.
See this bug report on Adobe's website for much more information.
I think it may be because it's full of bugs. I haven't worked with it on windows but on os x it reeks. You have to restart the whole os to get it back to normal sometimes.