Design view empty!

Question

I'm using Flex Builder 3. While creating a UI within the
source view, I occasionally switch over to design view to see how
things are looking. At a certain point, all my controls disappear
from the design window. Everything's still fine within the source
view and the app actually compiles and runs just fine. After a
while, the Designer just gets itself into some state where it no
longer displays controls (nor can controls be added to the UI using
the Design view).
Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround?
Many thanks!

Answer 1

"hazebiz" <[email protected]> wrote in
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quote:
Originally posted by:
amol bhandwale
> Hi,
> did u try using refresh button in design mode?.This may
be cause in
> background
> other process is running.
> Thanks,
> Amol
>
>
> Hi. Yes, I did try the refresh button. No effect. Even
tried shutting the
> whole thing down and restarting Flex. Nothing.
>
> Do developers simply not use the Designer (as someone
alluded to earlier)
> and
> do their UI building in source view? I'm currently in
the process of
> evaluating Flex Builder and Silverlight/Expression for a
project and I was
> initially impressed with the Design view, especially
after dealing with
> the
> rather awkward and "heavy-feeling" Expression UI builder
for Silverlight.
> However, in Expression's defense, it does *work*. The
Design View, on the
> other hand, has a clean and simple layout and seems to
be about 90% of the
> way
> "there", but in my short experience with it, has
catastrophic flaws. (and
> the
> outline view needs just a few minor enhancements that
would make it very
> useful).
Most of what Flex does well is work with data. When you're in
Design view
you don't have access to the data, so you get a very
truncated picture of
what you're going to get when data is present. Since that's
the case, if
you're using Flex for what it's intended for, you're not
going to find
Design view very useful.
That being said, I've heard other developers with similar
complaints, and I
think it has something to do with the java version in the
eclipse part of
builder. You might want to try updating eclipse, or
uninstalling and
reinstalling Builder.