Ahhh. "Artistic types". That would have been good to know from the start. As a Flex developer since Flex2 days dealing with command-line compilations, the install for 4.9 and the usage of the sdk is the easiest I remember. I was wondering what was going on. I think Alex and gang have greatly simplified things.
Best regards, Tom On Apr 18, 2013, at 22:19, "Joe Kryzak" <[email protected]> wrote: > Changed the subject to avoid further hijacking of Michael's thread. Thanks, > I'll forward this on - I've assumed they just have to change the SDK in the > IDE as well, but maybe FP was the problem, not sure. > > Some background for your user type here - we give our application with custom > mods to more artistic types, so they can analyze the effects of scale and > filter functions on the application structure and color decisions. For > instance, two thinner black lines surrounding a color when zoomed out view as > black. Glow usually doesn't work well, and they need to modify and learn that > on their own. They wouldn't be able to determine that without the tool.They > were asked to download 4.7, which doesn't contain the Worker class by > default, but is a combination IDE/SDK. When they got the error, they upgraded > to 4.9.1 thinking that it would update to the latest, and then asked me what > was wrong when the installer didn't have an executable. > > So they're really not Flex developers, but use the tool as a visual developer. > > The script sounds helpful, we are on macs. > > > On Apr 18, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > > Hi, > >> he wanted FP 11.5. Is this IDE integration information located anywhere. > Re exact steps on using an SDK for each IDE are not on our site as far as I'm > aware. I think we assumed (probably incorrectly) that most Flex developers > would know how to do that. > > Hopefully with the next version of the installer you'll be able to select the > AIR and Flash Player version you want. > > Using another version of Flash Player is fairly simple. > 1. Download the correct playerglobal.swc and place in > /frameworks/libs/player/<version> directory. > 2. Change your project to use that FP version. In FlashBuilder you just > change the flash player version in the compile > > There is no need to use a newer version of Flash Player unless you need to > take advantage of a newer feature. A swf compiled for FP 11.1 will run > exactly the same in 11.7 as if it was compiled for FP 11.7. > >> or is this resistance intentional to keep users more technical? > It's not intentional we want to try and make as easy to use and install as > possible. > > I also wrote a script that downloads and checks all flash player versions > (checkAllFlashPlayerVersions.sh) you can find it in the ide directory. There > are also scripts in the same directory change the Flash Player version and > the AIR version. However they only currently work on linux/OSX as I'm not > that familiar with windows and .bat scripts. > > Thanks, > Justin >
