Flex Builder set default browser

When we run or debug our flex applications, Flex Builder by default launches the default system web browser. Want to set some specific web browser to be opened by Flex Builder instead. Here’s how…

1. Open Flex Builder.
2. Select Window > Preferences.
3. From the Preferences tree, select General > Web Browser.

Here you can set which browser flex builder will use while running or debugging. If default system Web browser is selected, Flex builder will open the default browser set by windows. Otherwise we can explicitly set the browser you want.

Happy Flexing….:-)

Detecting flash player version

For detecting the flash player version we can do the following,

1. Right click on the flash/flex application, you will get a pop-up menu as below, click the last option – About Flash Player 9.. and in a new page/tab you can see the exact version number of installed flash player, as well as the details of the latest version available.
   
2. You can go to the following link directly to get the same info as above, http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/
3. If you need some more details go to the link . Here you can get some more details like whether debug version is installed or not etc..
4. By writing a small piece of code in ActionScipt also you can get the information about, installed version of flash player, check here.

Flex Error – Flash Player Not Found

While debugging flex applications using Firefox browser I used to come across a peculiar error, as follows…

Although this is not a critical error and clicking ‘yes’ button will Run/Debug the application as desired, but many developers may feel irritating while debugging like me. This error typically comes because of flashplayer upgrade or uninstalling the flash player by flash uninstaller. After some research and goolgleing I found out a solution as follows.

As this error shows, Inside Firefox plugin folder “NPSWF32.dll” file is missing. Coply this file from “C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash”, and paste it inside “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins”, and we are done.

Happy Flexing…:-)

Posting HTML, XML, MXML codes in your blog

While writing blog I always come across a typical problem. When I was trying to put HTML or MXML code in my post it was getting rendered and won’t show as it is. Many of you also might be facing this particular problem.

The quick and best solution I found is Windows Live Writer. It will make blogging very easy and it will take care of the formating when you put HTML or MXML code etc. in your posts. Also you can manage your blog very easily using this. You can download it here.

The second solution is, copy your HTML or MXML codes in notepad, then find and replace all the special characters as below…

Find	Replace
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
“	&quot;
&	&amp;

Happy Blogging…:-)

Firefox 3 version 3.0.3 update problem

After the release of Firefox 3 update version 3.0.3, some how the auto update feature of firefox was failing repeatedly. So the workaround I tried is, insted of updating automatically I downloaded a fresh copy of Firefox 3 version 3.0.3 and installed above the current installation. Now the update was applied without any issue.

Flash Player 10 Released

Adobe recently released the all new version of flash player that is, Flash Player 10. The exact version number is 10.0.12.34. You can download it here.

The debug version is also available for download now. Check the following link.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=1

Happy Flexing…:-)