Flex Builder 3 lives! (Once I solved ‘Flex builder cannot locate the required version of Flash Player. You might need to install Flash Player 9 or reinstall Flex Builder’ error)

26 06 2008

So I just managed to finally install Flex Builder 3 which is quite exciting and may even deserve a whoop :)
Flex Builder 3

It’s been a while since I did a good ‘Hello World’ app so all good. I spent ages meddling about with my Flash Players (I already had the debug versions so I could have FlashTracer installed with Firefox 3) but when I went to run my app I got this error:

“Flex builder cannot locate the required version of Flash Player. You might need to install Flash Player 9 or reinstall Flex Builder” when I tried to run a perfectly acceptable bit of Hello World action:

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Flex builder cannot locate the required version of Flash Player. You might need to install Flash Player 9 or reinstall Flex Builder

It turns out this is because Firefox 3 is not suported by the Flex debugger. This is all documentewd nicely by the nice chaps over at Adobe who are working on it…

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-13064

There’s a lot of guys on there saying the plugins are at fualt but I removed all of mine (Charles, ColorZilla, Firebug, the lot) restarted and rebooted & it still didn’t work). Only fix I could find is to use IE as the default browser for debugging. To set this up in the Flex GUI go:

Flex>Window>Preferences>General>Web Browser – Use Internal Web browser (Select IE7 )

Obviously using Ie7  is not great but it’s an acceptable workaround for now so thought I’d share. Hope tis useful

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