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1. Bob Stucky,

Aug 29, 2011 8:27 AM in reply to mlavie

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Yes you can. Download the Air 2 SDK, and then follow the instructions here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/495/cpsid_49532.html

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2. mlavie,

Aug 29, 2011 9:31 AM in reply to Bob Stucky

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Thank you! I can't wait to get my grubby little hands on ServerSocket!

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3. mlavie,

Aug 29, 2011 11:53 PM in reply to Bob Stucky

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Hi Bob,

I guess I need your help.

Since applying the AIR 2.7 SDK over the CS5 Flex 3.4 SDK, any attempt to debug results in the dreaded message:

D:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5\Players\FlashPlayer.exe

Flash Builder cannot locate the required debugger version of Adobe Flash Player. You might need to install the debugger version of the Flash Player or reinstall Flash Builder.

Do you want to try to debug with the current version?

What do I do to solve this?

TIA,

mlavie

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4. david_a_clark,

Aug 30, 2011 1:50 AM in reply to mlavie

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AIR 2.0 SDK might be the maximum you can use with Flex 3.4, though off the top of my head I am not entirely sure.

I would try again with AIR 2.0 SDK.

By the way, since Extension Builder 1.0.2, and CS SDK 1.5, the bundled Flex 3.4 SDK should already have an AIR 2.0 SDK overlay. If that's not what you've found please let me know which product and version you are using and someone can look into it.

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5. mlavie,

Aug 30, 2011 3:50 AM in reply to david_a_clark

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Hi David,

Since we are not Adobe partners, I don't have Extension Builder. I have to write my extensions "the hard way" using Flash Builder and manually constructing manifests, etc...

I downloaded the CS5 SDK about a year ago. the directory says "CreativeSuiteSDK-1.0.0.201004282239" if that gives you a clue. Is there a newer version of the SDK that I could get without being a partner?

TIA,

mlavie

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6. david_a_clark,

Aug 30, 2011 3:53 AM in reply to mlavie

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Yes, CS SDK 1.5 was released a few months ago - see the downloads section on this page http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/cs-extension-builder.html

The free SDK has changed little since 1.0, but the AIR SDK overlay should now be present.

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7. lomorgan,

Aug 30, 2011 4:04 AM in reply to mlavie

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You can also download the Extension Builder 1.5 trial (linked to on the page David posted above) - as well as including the CS SDK it will also let you develop extensions "the easy way" :-)

I believe the trial will be running for another few months at least.

Louis

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8. mlavie,

Aug 30, 2011 4:43 AM in reply to david_a_clark

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Thank you, but i see that the new SDK is targeted to CS5.5, and we're still producing extensions for CS5.0. Is there an CSSDK for CS5.0 with full AIR 2 support?

TIA,

mlavie

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9. david_a_clark,

Aug 30, 2011 4:49 AM in reply to mlavie

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Yes, the Flex 3.4 SDK contained in CS SDK 1.5 can be used to build CS5 and CS5.5 extensions.

It is the same as it was in the CS SDK 1.0 release except it contains the AIR 2.0 SDK overlay.

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10. mlavie,

Nov 2, 2011 2:05 AM in reply to mlavie

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To David Clark and/or Bob Stucky (or anyone else who could help):

I managed to get the AIR SDK 2.0 ServerSocket up and running. However, I could not get flash.net's NetworkInfo to work - I get "Class flash.net::NetworkInfo could not be found."

What could be wrong?

TIA,

mlavie

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11. Bob Stucky,

Nov 2, 2011 7:07 AM in reply to mlavie

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Hi

If you place your code containing NetworkInfo into a simple Air app, does it work?

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12. mlavie,

Nov 3, 2011 1:19 AM in reply to Bob Stucky

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Hi Bob,

This may be a configuration issue of the extension. I have noticed that some of my extensions do allow AIR 2.0 classes/methods and some do not. The immediate issue is that some of the extensions have

at the root of their "MyProject-app.xml" file (I mean the file in "src", and not the manifest file under "CSXS")

and some have

Now, I am not as stupid as my ex probably told you, so I obviously tried changing "1.5.2" to "2.7" (or "2.6" or "2.0") in the extensions with "1.5.3". But then when I tried to run them, I got the message:

Please correct the following problem in the app.xml file for this application.

invalid application descriptor: descriptor version does not match runtime version

Launch command details: "L:\3rdParty\cssdk-free-1.5.0.201104110936\CreativeSuiteSDK\CS Flex SDK 3.4.0\bin\adl.exe" -runtime "D:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\sdks\4.0.0\runtimes\air\win" L:\Dev\Product\v1.0\Client\PresentationLayer\InDesignPlugins\Extensio nA\ExtensionA\ExtensionA-app.xml L:\Dev\Product\v1.0\Client\PresentationLayer\InDesignPlugins\Extensio nA\ExtensionA

Any ideas?

TIA,

mlavie

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13. mlavie,

Nov 3, 2011 3:46 AM in reply to mlavie

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Hi Bob,

I should have been more precise. The error message I gave above is from when I try to debug the extension. If I simply run the extension, the I get a runtime error with the following message:

Error #2012: NetworkInfo class cannot be instantiated.

TIA,

mlavie

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