Thanks for your quick response Oleg. For my workflow i code in AS3 projects and the assets from from a .fla linked with a SWC. I still see people using nasty [embed] tags.
In any case, thanks for your reply. It made some sense to me. I decided id get rid of every adobe product. I installed FB4 then FlashCS5 and everything was ok. When you turn off the wrapper of the browser, FB will complain there is no debug player available. As you said, the projector debugger does not require any kind of install. You download the file called flashplayer_10_sa_debug.exe from the debug page and then move this file somewhere.... C:/dev/ Double click the file. When you go back to FB and hit debug, Flex automatically knows the location of this directory magically. So if your download folder is c:/downloads/ and you double click flashplayer_10_sa_debug.exe, then FB will look in c:/downloads/ for the debug player. If you move flashplayer_10_sa_debug the only way to get FB4 to notice the new location is by running the flashplayer_10_sa_debug.exe file first. There is no settings available to do this manually that im aware of it. So problem solved! Running the debug player directly lauches almost instantly which is why i spent so long trying to solve the issue. Cheers. On 14 May 2010 00:13, Oleg Sivokon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sorry, this may upset you, but FB and Flash player aren't really related... > also there's no need to install standalone player, it's just not a program > that requires installation, after you run any copy of it it will create a > file association to SWF files (will make itself a default program to open > files with SWF extension). You may also do that from "folder options" > dialog. It is true they may try to change that to whatever version of player > they came bundled with right when you install them, but later they never try > to change that. > Silly thing about FB though is you cannot configure it to use the copy of > the flash player that you want... it has no such setting... Regarding your > other issue with unistaller, I personally never had it, but, this page seem > to have some good info (although dated) > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Windows_and_Mac . Some other adobe > products may sometimes try to install their own versions of player. This > issue was discussed several times and Adobe promised to do something about > it in the future releases... > Since I need multiple different versions of Flash player for testing, I > first was switching the SDKs (every SDK comes with the set of debug players > - find them in the runtimes folder), but that's not comfortable, so, I move > them to the Program Files/Flash Player/version/{debug|release}. Could sound > a little messy, but once I made it a habit any time I need to get a new > standalone version I just put it there, it never gave me troubles. > > Best. > > Oleg > >
