CS3 Flash no help files installed

my environment, is Windows
I have installed the complete CS3 production suite, but when I run Flash I can not find the HELP FILES, Flash works good but It can not find the Help Files.
How to reinstall or add the missing HELP files in Flash? without having to go thru the process of installing the complete CS3.
THanks in Advance,

What happens if you press F1? Do the help files appear?

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Flash CS4 Help File Offline What Happened to Tag Defintions Showing UP?????

Ok I know I can set the help system to browse offline however
this doesn't work correctly for any less then ActionScript 3. When
you highlighted a word in the past such as "null" it use to pull up
the word and the info in all the books. Now all I see is a web
browser that doesn't do this for me. I mean who sits there at
adobe's end and thinks up of ways to slow someone down like this??
How can you remove the core help quick linking from the program.
Number 1 not everyone is on AS3 and some of us still have to update
AS2 code.
Bigspace ships has an air application that installed AS3 flex
reference but again useless unless you are on AS3. Has anyone found
another way to get this old school functionality to work on
CS4???

Jay Armstrong here. I’m one of the writers who works on
the Flash docs.
Regarding this comment and the many others in other threads
that have added important details about the issues with the help
workflow, and in particular the ActionScript help workflow: We hear
your pain and we are working to implement solutions to these
issues.
I understand that this new help workflow is more painful than
in CS3 when you had the Help right in its own panel in the product.
Here’s some background:
The implementation of Help within the Flash Help panel prior
to CS4 required that *all* the Help files be installed on the local
drive with the product, resulting in some issues that we tried to
address in CS4. Including Help on the installation disc caused
issues including:
- Required that Help be completed much earlier for
localization and end-game testing.
- Resulted in static Help files that had been completed early
in the development cycle, sometimes not accounting for last minute
UI or other changes.
- A long install process.
- Crowded the installation disc.
These aren't meant to be full explanations of why we made the
changes, but just some background as to some of the things we were
thinking about. Clearly the decisions we came to weren't the right
ones for many users. We are intent on making things better.
Moving Help online makes it possible to update Help on an
ongoing basis, allows users to comment on and embellish the Help,
and allows us to add links from the help out to new articles,
tutorials, videos, and code samples on adobe.com and throughout the
Flash web community. One of you rightly pointed out that the Adobe
Updater could have been used for some of this, but I believe that
the updater would have required much more rigorous certification by
us of any update packages and the update/install process for each.
We actually are updating the online help files very frequently, so
this process would have been a major barrier to these updates.
We’ve had a struggle about how to deliver the Flash
Help for a long time, as we have a lot of users who have been quite
vocal about not liking the Help panel consuming space within the
Flash window as well as users who really want it there so they
don’t have to leave the IDE.
Having said all that, I still totally understand what
you’re saying about losing your code, glance, code, glance,
code workflow. As you probably know, we’ve been getting a lot
of feedback about this, along with other issues that online Help
has caused. We are actively looking at ways of solving these, but
the Help-in-a-browser issue a difficult problem, as this aspect of
the Help implementation is baked fairly deep into the CS4 product.
Since CS4 shipped, we have implemented solutions to some of the
issues with Help raised by users, such as allowing you to select
the default destination of F1 (though Flash CS4 always went to the
actual Help system rather than the Flash Help and Support page,
which is what these users wanted in other products). I just
don’t know if there will be a solution in the CS4 time frame
for viewing Help within Flash itself. As noted in this thread,
there are a few independent developers working on non-browser help
viewers, such as Jamie Kosoy, Technical Director at Big Spaceship,
whose AIR application for the CS4 Language Reference docs is
available at
http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2008/12/09/air-app-as3-language-reference/.
We knew that people use the AS3 Language Reference a lot, so
we did install a local, abridged version of that with the product.
You only see it when not connected to the internet or if you
disable online connections as described earlier in this thread, and
it still opens in a web browser and still has the same navigation
interface as the online version. You can also download a local copy
of the AS Reference, which does get updated periodically and can be
viewed locally regardless of the state of your internet connection,
but it also is all html and opens in a web browser. As previously
noted, the download is available here:
http://help.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/10/ActionScript3LangRef.zip.
I know this thread started off with AS2 concerns, and we hear
those too.
In some of the other threads out there about the Help, people
have raised issues about the contents navigation in the CS4 version
of the ASLR as well. We are listening to all these issues and
actively working on solutions that will address these questions.
We’d really like to give you better control over whether you
see online or local content, whether you see it inside the IDE or
in a separate application, etc.
I know that you are all really frustrated at some of these
help changes, and so I want to say how much we appreciate your
feedback. I’m sorry that my reply doesn’t give you the
magic bullet that you are understandably hoping for.
-Jay

A Function in Flash 8 help file should be changed

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quote:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("circle2_mc", 2);
circle2_mc.lineStyle(0, 0x000000);
drawCircle(circle2_mc, 100, 100, 100);
function drawCircle(mc:MovieClip, x:Number, y:Number,
r:Number):Void {
mc.moveTo(x+r, y);
mc.curveTo(r+x, Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y,
Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+x, Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, r+y, x, r+y);
mc.curveTo(-Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, r+y,
-Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+x, Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(-r+x, Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y, -r+x, y);
mc.curveTo(-r+x, -Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y,
-Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+x, -Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(-Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, -r+y, x, -r+y);
mc.curveTo(Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, -r+y,
Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+x, -Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(r+x, -Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y, r+x, y);
should be changed:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("circle2_mc", 2);
circle2_mc.lineStyle(0, 0x000000);
drawCircle(circle2_mc, 100, 100, 100);
function drawCircle(mc:MovieClip, x:Number, y:Number,
r:Number):Void {
mc.moveTo(x+r, y);
mc.curveTo(r+x, Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y, Math.
cos(Math.PI/4)*r+x,
Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, r+y, x, r+y);
mc.curveTo(-Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, r+y, -Math.
cos(Math.PI/4)*r+x,
Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(-r+x, Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y, -r+x, y);
mc.curveTo(-r+x, -Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y, -Math.
cos(Math.PI/4)*r+x,
-Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(-Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, -r+y, x, -r+y);
mc.curveTo(Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+x, -r+y, Math.
cos(Math.PI/4)*r+x,
-Math.sin(Math.PI/4)*r+y);
mc.curveTo(r+x, -Math.tan(Math.PI/8)*r+y, r+x, y);
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nguoirucro,
> I try to create a separate delay function, so that I can
execute
> sequentially:
>
> functionA();
> delay();
> functionB();
This is a popular one. ;)
> I previously user timer so I had to integrate function B
into the
> delay function, which is very inconvenient.
For better or worse, though, that's the way to do it.
> Could anyone please help me to create a separate
function as
> above?
ActionScript doesn't support something like a global delay()
or sleep()
function. In ActionScript 2.0 (or AS1) you can use
setInterval() or
setTimeout() to delay as many functions as you please. In
ActionScript
3.0 -- for which you'd need Flash CS3 -- you can use the
Timer class.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
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[Help] Problem Installing Flash CS3

Hi there mates,
I have a problem here. I downloaded the 30 Days Trial version
of Adobe Flash CS3 Pro from this site to my Vista Laptop but when i
finished installing, theres an error box at the bottom of the
installer saying that Adobe Flash CS3 is failed to be installed and
even after i restarted computer i still have the same error.
Do anyone have any idea how to solve this problem of mine?
I'd be grateful if i can get a answer.
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FYI: "Br" is the Bridge application - try launching that to
see if it fully installed.
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Ms. Clause wrote:
> My computer is a brand new Vaio laptop loaded and 4 GB
RAM. I don't think I
> have a hardware problem. I tried to reinstall,
redownload and it still will
> not install the flash software. After I download I
clicked on the file and it
> install a folder in my drive, then I clicked on set up,
it went through a
> normal set up but for some reason it doesn't load Flash
CS3, it only load 2
> components from that I think it Br and something else.
>

Flash CS3 doesn't find Help file

If I'm looking at the actionscript in a .FLA file, and I
press F1 with the mouse cursor over a word like 'trace', it takes
me directly to the help page on the trace() function. Perfect.
However, if I am looking at code in an external .as file and
do the same thing, it doesn't work. I get a popup:
Cannot find
...:/ProgramData/Adobe/Flash%20CS3/en/Configuration/HelpPanel/Help/ActionScriptLang...
Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.
How can I make this work?

quote:
Originally posted by:
BWolfe [ADOBE]
Hmmm. Can't repro on my side in XP. What OS are you running?
I actually have 2 installs, one is on XP and one is on Vista.
They both do the same thing.
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I don't comment much, I tend to be the quiet kind of user
that just does my own thing. I am quite upset with Adobe's change
in the help feature in Flash. I understand that things change with
updates. That's a reason i get work sometimes. Someone wants to
update.
I so loved the large amount of useful code and examples
buried in the Help files in previous versions of Flash. Through
these i could riddle my why through a problem. Multiple examples of
how to use something was often the only way to figure out what I
was trying to do.
Are those days now long gone? I hope not. I am not a
programmer, but i do have some programming experience. I am a web
designer. i prefer not to live in binary, classes and the like.
Often these samples worked as idea starters, and answers to late
night prayers when the oil had been burning all too long. You know,
when your head gets fuzzy and you need to go to bed but the project
has to be done....
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that can be done about this?
I know there are some samples in there, I flipped through it
for a while, but i feel the quality of the Help menu in Flash has
dropped dramatically. The new neat features in the Help menu and
the nice skin don't measure up to the loss in content. I plan on
working with MX by my side so i can use its Help features, because
CS3 doesn't look like it will do the job.
Anyone else want to comment?
Thanks,
mr_bidinkle

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Has Flash help menu been savaged to leave only two headings??
I only have the following two main headings in my Help Menu:
Using Actionscript 2.0 Components
Actionscript 2.0 Components Language Reference
I have bought the Rich Media Project Player and List
Component and they said their help file is also installed.
I cannot see that here either.
Whats going on? Can an Adobe person answer this for
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I need help in installing CreateJS for Flash CS6. I had downloaded the Toolkit CreateJS from here: http://www.adobe.com/go/downloadcreatejs and here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/createjs/articles/using-flash-pro-toolkit- createjs.html. When I attempted to install the extension using Adobe Extension Manager, the installation files did not have the required .zxp or .mxp files. It only had a file with a .mxi extension. Please advise. Thanks.

Why installing IIS o_O?
For Installing a developer Machine just install Oracle Developer suite; for testing your forms you use OC4J ("start OC4J instance" in start menu), and you can run your forms in web; no need for a aditional webserver (don't believe there's an OC4J connector for IIS available; and if so I wouldn't use it either ;-))
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I've installed Flash 9 beta and see no help files at all in
Flash Help (F1) section.
Is it OK, or that's a bug?
Is it possible to insert into F1 window a standart Flash 8
Help "books" ("How to use help", "Getting started with Flash",
"Using components" ans so on) and also a new AS 3.0 help section?
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The Flash 9 BETA? Where/how did you obtain this? If you are
truly a BETA tester then you would be
asking on the BETA listserv - not the public forum. You must
have obtained this BETA illegally and
have now announced it publicly on Adobe's forum - I would not
have done such a thing to be honest -
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you were not legally supposed to be
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ANDR_ew wrote:
> I've installed Flash 9 beta and see no help files at all
in Flash Help (F1)
> section.
>
> Is it OK, or that's a bug?
>
> Is it possible to insert into F1 window a standart Flash
8 Help "books" ("How
> to use help", "Getting started with Flash", "Using
components" ans so on) and
> also a new AS 3.0 help section?
>
> Thanks!
>

Flash 9 Alpha ate my help files

Just installed the Flash 9 taster (as it were) to explore the
delights of as3 - boomshanka - no helpfiles, have not nosed around
yet to see what else is ary
Anyone else had good or bad experiences with this
update??

pwiop,
> Just installed the Flash 9 taster (as it were) to
explore
> the delights of as3 - boomshanka - no helpfiles, have
> not nosed around yet to see what else is ary
Your spelling of awry is ary. But everything else looks
okay. ;)
> Anyone else had good or bad experiences with this
> update??
Welllll, it's not so much an update as a beta. That's an
important
distinction! Having said that, though, I haven't had any
problems. My Help
files are all still accounted for -- in Flash 8, that is. Are
you saying
the Flash 9 beta ate your Flash 8 documentation? Or is it
just that Flash 9
seems to have no Help? If that's it, then we're in the same
boat. Flash 9
doesn't have help files (those are available online).
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/as3preview/langref/
You didn't *uninstall* 8, did you?
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Hi, Flash Player is a browser plugin and works thru your browser. It won't be listed in your Program files, but in the Control Panel as you have indicated.
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