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zDraw - Free Flash Drawing Application

New Drawing Application i’m working on done in Flex 3.0.2 check it out

zDraw v1.0b

I was having a lot of issues trying to debug an ActionScript project in Flex 3.0.2.  The Flash 10 standalone debugger was simply not connecting.  This means I was unable to debug my application! so trace statements and such didn’t show up in the Flex console.

After searching the Net and trying all the fixes that others have posted, none of them worked.

I then noticed that I currently have, Flash CS3, Flash CS4, and Flex 3.0.2 installed. They each have a Flash Player folder which contains debug and release versions as well as backups for Flash Player. There is no way to tell which player Flex is using, except there is!

1. I am on a Mac so, open your Activity Monitor and double click Flash Player instance in the list.
2. Go to “Open Files and Ports”.
3. The second line there is where the Flash Player is being called from.
4. Backup and delete that directory.
5. Try to debug in Flex again.
6. repeat process 1-5, until it either no longer can find a valid Flash Player, or starts to play a .app Projector File.  You have now removed all references to the Standalone Flash Player.
7. Download the current standalone debugger from Adobe.com
8. Place it in either the “/Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/Players” directory or whatever version you have.
9. relaunch Flex, debug your application with Trace statements and breakpoints!