So I bought this nice, bad ass new computer. Cool, shiny, powerful, etc... I installed Flex and at first glance everything was looking great. But then I went to the Build Path dialog and the tabs are not showing. Strange... I did some searching around and it seems there are a number of people having this problem, along with a few other related issues.
From what I gather, there is no fix for this problem. Seriously? As you can imagine, I'm really freaked out and disappointed with this problem. Does anyone know of a fix/solution for this?
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Thesedays, I'm learning more and more that the solution is OSX ;)
Well, the problem lies with Adobe actually. Vista has been out for what, 2+ years and Adobe still doesn't support 64 bit. My thought is that if a major OS comes out it is Adobe's job to support it.
I used to work for software companies in the past and I remember hearing customers (usually mac people) making complaints about the software not being supported for their OS.
I think what I'm going to do is wipe out the 64 bit Vista and install the 32 bit Vista (keep 64 on the drive partition in case Adobe decides to support it someday).
64 bit, while not a big player in the market today, is the future and it will inevitably come around (yeah, the mac will follow). Question is when will everyone catch up to it? Maybe I should just switch over to developing SilverLight in Visual Studio, hahaha. I'm sure it will work on 64 bit.
First, thanks for some awesome tutorials! :-)
Now to the problem:
You don't happen to have a Logitech mouse/keyboard? And have you installed SetPoint, and is it running? If it is, kill it. Presto, working Flex Builder!
(This isn't the first time SetPoint has created a bug in another program for me, I had a strange bug in 3DS Max one time also.)
And by the way, you can also use the plugin with regular eclipse.
SetPoint you say... Hmmm, i'll look into this. Thanks man.
Thanks for this, I was having all sorts of problems with my Flex builder, including tabs not displaying in the project properties and windows not resizing. Removing SetPoint fixed them all!
I was having the same problem; thanks.
NOTE: You don't actually have to remove SetPoint; you just have to *close* the SetPoint software.
I got a fancy mouse and couldn't deal with not being able to configure it. :)
So far, there isn't a 64 bit Flash Player for Windows. So you can't view Flash objects via IE 7, and 8 64 bit.
The only 64 bit support that Adobe has released is Photoshop CS4. Otherwise, we would need to wait it out.
However, I did manage to install Flex on my bad-ass 64 bit laptop and Desktop.
I have Logitech mouse on USB, but I don't have SetPoint...
I don't see tabs in Flex Build Path... Any others suggestions? (untill I change OS to Win7 32bit)
Agnes
late reply, but anyways: using a different vm might solve this. FB is based on Eclipse, and thus written in Java. On OS X for example, in some situations, Java SE 6 won't play nice, so one has to switch to SE 5.
I have Flex on VISTA 64 and it runs fune. It's a Java VM issue, not Flex.
But triggers in SQLITE don't seem to work on Vista 64.
hmmm... I am on a Win7 HP machine, and I don't have any logitech mouse/keyboard. And I don't see any SetPoint processes running or in my Add/Remove Programs list.
What is this SetPoint anyways?? Probably I can find something similar in my machine??
Any other suggestions?
Thanks for this post.