FDS Test Drive - help with sample apps

Question

I'm trying to use the FDS 30 Minute TestDrive sample apps
inside
Flex Builder. I downloaded the test drive and all the samples
work
just dandy fine, and I can view the source etc. So I wanted
to load
some of the sample apps into Flex Builder so that I could
modify and
play with them with the debugger so as to learn more.
I've tried the following:
create New Project - use Flex Data Services/compile app
locally
Root Folder: C:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT
Root URL:
http://localhost:8600/ROOT.
When I click Finish, I get the
following 3 errors in the Output panel:
unable to load SWC fds.swc: multiple points
unable to load SWC fds.swc: multiple points
The definition of base class Locale was not found
Could not resolve<mx:Application> to a component
implementaion
I am on Flex 2.0.143459.
I've verified that fds.swc is indeed in the
C:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\flex\libs folder.
I don't know what the other messages mean or what to do.
I then stubbornly unzipped one of the sample apps into the
FlexBuilder project folder (which I named FDS TestDrive
Samples) and
tried to run it anyway to see if I could get more info. I
then get
a browser window with the following additional errors:
type Status report
message /ROOT/FDS%20TestDrive%20Samples/Chat.html
description The requested resource (/ROOT/FDS%20TestDrive%
20Samples/Chat.html) is not available.
So I guess one problem is that it is not making an html
document.
But I don't know how to correct that.
I have no idea what to do. Any help would be GREATLY
appreciated.

Answer 1

Someone helped me offlist with this after I got frustrated
that this forum is essentially dead. But in case anyone else needs
this info, I thought I'd post. First you need to be on Flex version
2.0.155577. So I had to redownload all of Flex, uninstall my older
version, install the new version. Then I did the following
to create the Flex Builder project for the dashboard sample
app:
File - > New -> Flex Project
Select Flex Data Services
Select Compile application locally
Click Next
Deselect "Use default local Flex Data Services Location"
Click Browse... and open c:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT
Root URL:
http://localhost:8600/
Context root: /
Click Next
Project name: <Whatever you want to name it>;
Deselect "Use default location"
Folder: c:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT\dashboard
Click Next
Main application file: dashboard.mxml
Click Finish
The Context root was really key. Also, to get my old projects
back into Flex, I used file:import and then had to do a little
additional fiddling with some of the projects' properties.
Too bad this Forum is so dead. I've tried to get feedback to
Adobe about that concern, but so far it hasn't helped. sigh