Flash 9 Beta Help Files (F1)

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!

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 -
it is illegal for you to have this copy of the flash tool if
you were not legally supposed to be
testing it.
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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!
>

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Number 1 not everyone is on AS3 and some of us still have to update
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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
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localization and end-game testing.
- Resulted in static Help files that had been completed early
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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
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us of any update packages and the update/install process for each.
We actually are updating the online help files very frequently, so
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We’ve had a struggle about how to deliver the Flash
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vocal about not liking the Help panel consuming space within the
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Having said all that, I still totally understand what
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pwiop,
> Just installed the Flash 9 taster (as it were) to
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> the delights of as3 - boomshanka - no helpfiles, have
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Thanks for all of the assistance....always learning something new! You have been a terrific source and I appreciate all of the time and responses to my questions.
Have a great day!!!!!
>>> kglad <[email protected]> 4/23/2013 4:56 PM >>>
Re: Help, File wont open created by kglad ( http://forums.adobe.com/people/kglad ) in Flash Pro - General - View the full discussion ( http://forums.adobe.com/message/5262225#5262225 )
you're welcome.
p.s. there's one more thing he can try. if he has a working swf, he can trying decompiling it to get a working fla or, even if that fails, he will be able to get a non-corrupt fla whose assets can be extracted.
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I used the File>>Print function to create an HTML help file for my application and specified in the VI Properties for the app to use <helpdir>:\ApplicationHelp.HTML as the Help Path. This should pop up the help file when a user selects "Help for This VI" from my custom menu. It works from my development directory because I installed the help files into the help directory manually, but I can't figure out how the get the installer to put the files in the correct location on the target system. I tried putting them in [LabVIEW 2010 Help] in the Destination View for the Source Files category, but that didn't work. Anyone know the right way to do this?

kgarrett88 wrote:
Hey MrSmith,
In LabVIEW 2010 SP1, if open the Project and right click My Computer, you can add the help file as a source. After you have added this file, you can then create an installer. Under the Destination header, you can add your desired destination path. After you have done that, you can go to the Source Files header and add the help file to that destination you created.
Hope this helps. Good luck with your application!
~kgarrett
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Then I specified the Resource directory as the destination for the files for the Release build.
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