Hi

I Have multiples project using Flex sdk 4.1 and the FB 4.5 design view does NOT work! Why ???

I'm very very disappointed with FB 4.5.

Best Regards,

Miguel

I had the same problem. Tried the 4.5 trial.. and it didn't even come with the 4.0 and 4.1 SDKs .. which seems like a bizarre thing to leave out. So I pointed it to the SDKs on my FB 4.0 install and it says "Design mode is disabled as the project uses an incompatible version of the FLEX SDK"

pretty bad experience with the new version so far!  you'd think they woulda thought people would be using flex 4 projects in it...

i love the thread hijacking going on.

try going import flashbuilder project - folder option - select your project folder and try that

aaaarrrggghh

I installed a plugin from http://www.elementriver.com/sourcemate3 and also a code-color plugin from eclipse

and now suddenly after a restart my design mode is greyed out!!!!

What can I do??

in my opinion

flex builder 3 only fullly supports flex 3 and 2, flex 4~ are not supported and the ide cannot create setter/getter and format/cleanup the source code

flash builder 4 supports flex 4 and 3.X as well but compiler is huge slow and has memory leak and crash issue even tune up xmx=1024

flash builder 4.5 only supports flex 4.5 and 3.6 but 4.0, 4.1, 3.0, 3.2 are not supported and compiler still huge slow has memory leak and crash issue even tune up xmx=1024

and in my case upgrade project from (below 3.6) to 3.6 or (below 4.5) to 4.5 will occur a compile error

so you can only use flash builder 4.5 to build flex sdk 3.6 or 4.5 project currently i think

and need an i7 CPU for all version ide

False statement.

I have the 4.5 SDK selected and design view does not work with the FB 4.5 Plugin on my Mac with Eclipse Cocoa 32 bit.

Design View is the ONLY reason I haven't switched to IntelliJ.

@Markster7778 Did you enabled other platforms for your application in the project properties?

I'm using FB 4.5 for more than 2 months (7h/day) and my debugger didnt crash once... my design view also works well (didnt try older sdk projects). In fact, I dont think the IDE crashed once since I use it. My service is also connecting as it should on every attempt...

I use the standalone version. Sorry, I didnt notice you were talking of the eclipse plugin

No you can develop apps for iOS from Windows. It's a little bit more complicate (you must generate a certificate from the command line) but I did it and it works well. I have a mac but I didnt use it and I am debugging an app on my Ipad 2 without any problem! There is a page on the adobe website about the signing process for ios on windows : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666a de46-7ff0.html#WSfffb011ac560372f284e44b012cd1e700c0-8000

You will have to pay anyway... You need a file that you download from the Apple dev acount page...

In fact, you should use the AS3 API for those platform. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook.html (for facebook). NOTE : I didnt try the library and it might not work on a real iOS device (if the library try to do unautorized call to the OS).

You must understand that you cannot import an iOS library in AIR (coded in objective-c) or a java library (coded for Android). You are in AIR, you must develop in Actionscript and use AS3 libraries and you must keep in your mind that some libraries aren't design for mobiles and might crash the app on iOS (real device only, not emulator and only when you do a standard deployement).

For the callResponder, the s:view scope is where it should be placed, you are ok.

For the viewActive, I think Adobe renamed this event viewActivate after the beta (I might be wrong on this one, but i'm pretty sure you can use viewActivate). It will call refresh() everytime the view is loaded. (after the creation, after a push or a pop or when the user come back from the OS).

The reason why you see an empty home page when you launch the app is because you can't run an app containing errors so the version launched is the last working copy of your app (in your case, an empty app).

I downloaded FB 4.5.1 and imported my Flex3 project. I have the same issues, http://forums.adobe.com/thread/894388. Many windows (TitleWindow) don't appear in the Design view.

I'm disappointed in Adobe. Further complicating the issue,  FB3 doesn't work on Mac 10.7 (Lion).

I would upgrade my project to Flex4.5 but that requires Flash 10.2, which I'm sure some of my existing end-users don't have yet (have a SaaS solution that targets enterprise customers).

Not too many options for me..

I agree with you. I called adobe today, but they refused to help me because I am using the trial version of flashbuilder. They wouldn't help me unless I had a license - now why would I ever purchase something that I know won't work in my situation without assurances they can help get it running.

Btw, did you have a previous version of flexbuilder or flashbuilder loaded prior to this current install?

Ray Shirley

The Boeing Company

Cell: 562-889-0996

I have several outstanding issues right now.  IF this is in regards to not being able to click on the Design tab in order to get into design view, you missed the boat....  After looking through all the options and preferences, I found that if I go to Window-Enable design View, it allows me to then use the design view.  I'm not sure how that option got turned off, nor do I know why you would ever want to disable the design view, but that took care of my problem.

I still have several other outstanding issues... One of them the Adobe phone support 'elected' to not help me with....  Very disturbing.

Ray Shirley

cell phone:  562/889-0996

Try calling it into their support.  Amazingly I didn't wait too long for an answer. I asked for a callback, and they called within 10 minutes (like the record said).  I didn't fight with them too much, cause I was late for a meeting.  Maybe you can convince them that you are a potential customer.  I will probably call back when I have a longer amount of time.  I just hadn't expected them to call back so quickly.

Ray Shirley

cell phone:  562/889-0996

Flash Builder 4.5 is a joke. Even when I run a project in Design Mode, the entire interface refreshes after every single change. Font Size 11 -> 12? Wait for Refresh. BorderAlpha 0-9 -> 0.7 Wait for Refresh.

Lucky for Adobe, developer costs are picked up by my company. I'd ask for a refund.

Nothing works for me. Tried importing a few more times. Did an export then import. In one case, a created a TitleWindow from scratch, copied the old code to the new one, then the UI elements appeared. Then I closed the window then reopened it, only to no longer see the UI elements (simply shows gray screen). I tried refreshing, switch back and forth between Source and Design view.

I'm still awaiting to hear from Adobe on this issue, as I'm sure they are aware of it.

I had the same Design mode being disabled problem. I ended up enabling it back after selecting "Enable Design Mode" from Windows menu in Flash builder 4.5.

Could be the same case of accidental disabling for some one else. Just check if this helps.

Try with ALT+PGUP or ALT+PGDOWN (Works on Mac OS)

-g