Flash builder 4.5 Grey background in Design Mode

I just installed Flash builder 4.5 in my Kubuntu OS. I can created a new flex project in my eclipse.
However, when I switched from source mode to design mode. The background is grey and doesn't
show any components (nor the white background). I was wondering if you guys have solution for this.
Thanks a lot.

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Hi Blake,
In another page (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1056583), Adobe states that it will be possible to download 4.6 in alternative to 4.7, to still have the Design View. However, I have not seen such possibility yet.
I will not say that "real programmers don't use design mode". They do, if it works fine.
However, the Design View was not very useful for mobile projects, if you wanted to create an interface which, at run time, adapts to different screen estates.
It was very good to draw an initial mock-up, but only the simulator (and the device) can say how the app really looks like (if you want to know more, please have a look here: http://aliencoding.com/2013/02/22/adobe-flash-builder-4-7-has-no-design-view-is-it-blasphe my-no-but-the-software-contains-some-other-blasphemous-aspects/).
If you develop for desktop, then I agree the Design View lack is a real drag. I think Adobe should at least lower the price of the program, now that it's been scaled down for (I think) copyright issues (the Design mode relies on Flash professional components that was not donated to Apache).
I love this platform because it really saved my butt in cases of real fast devployment, BUT NOW it lacks support for Windows 8 that PhoneGap has...
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Hi Fernando, sorry for the delayed response. CSS Design Mode is not available for Flex 4 projects, but it is still available in Flex 3 projects. The reason for this is that designing components in Flex 4 is often a lot different, since it relies highly on the new spark skinning architecture. There is, however, an Appearance panel available in design view which supplies a set of the main inheriting styles. Setting these styles in the Appearance panel will result in assigning values to a global style selector.
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I have a new Flash Builder (Flex) project, basically it has 2 combo boxes in it. I have added a web service, the service is called uws_lookups and has 2 methods, lookupLanguage and lookupCountry.
If I bind a combobox to the result from either of these services everything works as expected, here is the code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
      xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
      xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
      xmlns:uws_lookups="services.uws_lookups.*"
      minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
   import com.adobe.serializers.utility.TypeUtility;
   import mx.controls.Alert;
   import mx.events.FlexEvent;
   protected function comboBox_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupCountryResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupCountry();
]]>
</fx:Script>
<fx:Declarations>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupCountryResult"/>
<uws_lookups:Uws_lookups id="uws_lookups"
         fault="Alert.show(event.fault.faultString + '\n' + event.fault.faultDetail)"
         showBusyCursor="true"/>

</fx:Declarations>
<s:ComboBox id="comboBox" creationComplete="comboBox_creationCompleteHandler(event)" labelField="countryName">
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupCountryResult.lastResult.Tables.Country.Rows)}"/>
</s:ComboBox>
<s:ComboBox/>
</s:Application>
As you can see the combobox gets bound, the results are returned and displayed, however when I bind the second box to the other method Flash Builder does the most stupid thing ever:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
      xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
      xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
      xmlns:uws_lookups="services.uws_lookups.*"
      minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
   import com.adobe.serializers.utility.TypeUtility;
   import mx.controls.Alert;
   import mx.events.FlexEvent;
   protected function comboBox_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupCountryResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupCountry();
   protected function comboBox2_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupLanguageResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupLanguage();
]]>
</fx:Script>
<fx:Declarations>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupCountryResult"/>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupLanguageResult"/>
<uws_lookups:Uws_lookups id="uws_lookups" fault="Alert.show(event.fault.faultString + '\n' + event.fault.faultDetail)" showBusyCursor="true"/>

</fx:Declarations>
<s:ComboBox id="comboBox" creationComplete="comboBox_creationCompleteHandler(event)" labelField="countryName">
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupCountryResult.lastResult.Tables.Country.Rows)}"/>
</s:ComboBox>
<s:ComboBox id="comboBox2" creationComplete="comboBox2_creationCompleteHandler(event)" labelField="LanguageName">
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupLanguageResult.lastResult.Tables.Country.Rows)}"/>
</s:ComboBox>
</s:Application>
Now I'm pretty sure that isnt what I asked it to do, so I manually change the code line to read correctly
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupLanguageResult.lastResult.Tables.Language.Ro ws)}"/>
Which enables to second combobox to work, but the original one (countries) now displays [Object: Language_type]
I have debugged the application and both methods do actually return the correct data, FB is just choosing to do something stupid when I add the second call.
I have done the basics, deleted the project and started again, tried a different web service, tried different methods, but it looks like when I use more than one method it fails, so please tell me, what am I doing wrong because I know Flash Builder cannot be doing this by design.
I will post the service response in another post.
Thanks for any help you have!
Shaine

Ok, lets prove I'm not going mad. New Project, add webservice, which has 2 methods as before. Drag datagrid to stage and bind to data for lookup countries, the code generated is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
      xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
      xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
      xmlns:uws_lookups="services.uws_lookups.*"
      minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
   import com.adobe.serializers.utility.TypeUtility;
   import mx.controls.Alert;
   import mx.events.FlexEvent;
   protected function dataGrid_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupCountryResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupCountry();
]]>
</fx:Script>
<fx:Declarations>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupCountryResult"/>
<uws_lookups:Uws_lookups id="uws_lookups"
         fault="Alert.show(event.fault.faultString + '\n' + event.fault.faultDetail)"
         showBusyCursor="true"/>

</fx:Declarations>
<s:DataGrid id="dataGrid" x="10" y="10" width="400" height="580"
    creationComplete="dataGrid_creationCompleteHandler(event)" requestedRowCount="4">
<s:columns>
   <s:ArrayList>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="ID" headerText="ID"></s:GridColumn>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="countryName" headerText="countryName"></s:GridColumn>
   </s:ArrayList>
</s:columns>
<s:typicalItem>
   <fx:Object countryName="countryName1" ID="ID1"></fx:Object>
</s:typicalItem>
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupCountryResult.lastResult.Tables.Country.Rows)}"/>
</s:DataGrid>
</s:Application>
So. now te good bit, drag another datagrid to the stage and bind to the second method (languages), and guess what? it all goes horribly wrong, here is the complete code for that too:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
      xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
      xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
      xmlns:uws_lookups="services.uws_lookups.*"
      minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
   import com.adobe.serializers.utility.TypeUtility;
   import mx.controls.Alert;
   import mx.events.FlexEvent;
   protected function dataGrid_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupCountryResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupCountry();
   protected function dataGrid2_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupLanguageResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupLanguage();
]]>
</fx:Script>
<fx:Declarations>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupCountryResult"/>
<uws_lookups:Uws_lookups id="uws_lookups"
         fault="Alert.show(event.fault.faultString + '\n' + event.fault.faultDetail)"
         showBusyCursor="true"/>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupLanguageResult"/>

</fx:Declarations>
<s:DataGrid id="dataGrid" x="10" y="10" width="400" height="580"
    creationComplete="dataGrid_creationCompleteHandler(event)" requestedRowCount="4">
<s:columns>
   <s:ArrayList>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="ID" headerText="ID"></s:GridColumn>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="countryName" headerText="countryName"></s:GridColumn>
   </s:ArrayList>
</s:columns>
<s:typicalItem>
   <fx:Object countryName="countryName1" ID="ID1"></fx:Object>
</s:typicalItem>
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupCountryResult.lastResult.Tables.Country.Rows)}"/>
</s:DataGrid>
<s:DataGrid id="dataGrid2" x="418" y="10" width="400" height="590"
    creationComplete="dataGrid2_creationCompleteHandler(event)" requestedRowCount="4">
<s:columns>
   <s:ArrayList>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="ID" headerText="ID"></s:GridColumn>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="LanguageName" headerText="LanguageName"></s:GridColumn>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="LanguageCode" headerText="LanguageCode"></s:GridColumn>
   </s:ArrayList>
</s:columns>
<s:typicalItem>
   <fx:Object ID="ID1" LanguageCode="LanguageCode1" LanguageName="LanguageName1"></fx:Object>
</s:typicalItem>
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupLanguageResult.lastResult.Tables.Country.Rows)}"/>
</s:DataGrid>
</s:Application>
Now this is without ANY modification from me whatsoever, and all I get is the CountryID field displayed, so I modify the code manually to read:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
      xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
      xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
      xmlns:uws_lookups="services.uws_lookups.*"
      minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
   import com.adobe.serializers.utility.TypeUtility;
   import mx.controls.Alert;
   import mx.events.FlexEvent;
   protected function dataGrid_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupCountryResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupCountry();
   protected function dataGrid2_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
    lookupLanguageResult.token = uws_lookups.lookupLanguage();
]]>
</fx:Script>
<fx:Declarations>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupCountryResult"/>
<uws_lookups:Uws_lookups id="uws_lookups"
         fault="Alert.show(event.fault.faultString + '\n' + event.fault.faultDetail)"
         showBusyCursor="true"/>
<s:CallResponder id="lookupLanguageResult"/>

</fx:Declarations>
<s:DataGrid id="dataGrid" x="10" y="10" width="400" height="580"
    creationComplete="dataGrid_creationCompleteHandler(event)" requestedRowCount="4">
<s:columns>
   <s:ArrayList>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="ID" headerText="ID"></s:GridColumn>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="countryName" headerText="countryName"></s:GridColumn>
   </s:ArrayList>
</s:columns>
<s:typicalItem>
   <fx:Object countryName="countryName1" ID="ID1"></fx:Object>
</s:typicalItem>
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupCountryResult.lastResult.Tables.Country.Rows)}"/>
</s:DataGrid>
<s:DataGrid id="dataGrid2" x="418" y="10" width="400" height="590"
    creationComplete="dataGrid2_creationCompleteHandler(event)" requestedRowCount="4">
<s:columns>
   <s:ArrayList>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="ID" headerText="ID"></s:GridColumn>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="LanguageName" headerText="LanguageName"></s:GridColumn>
    <s:GridColumn dataField="LanguageCode" headerText="LanguageCode"></s:GridColumn>
   </s:ArrayList>
</s:columns>
<s:typicalItem>
   <fx:Object ID="ID1" LanguageCode="LanguageCode1" LanguageName="LanguageName1"></fx:Object>
</s:typicalItem>
<s:AsyncListView list="{TypeUtility.convertToCollection(lookupLanguageResult.lastResult.Tables.Language.Rows)}"/>
</s:DataGrid>
</s:Application>
And now I can see the CountryID, LanguageID, LanguageName and LanguageCode, but still no Country Name, so where do I look now, and more to the point why is this happening?
Please please please please help, this is just slightly more than business critical, I have to justify the cost of this project, and so far, not having lot of fun with it.
Thanks
Shaine

Flash Builder Design Mode: sea of grey w/ blue boxes...why?

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I added various controls to a tiny test application's MXML file in Flash Builder (Gumbo)'s design mode, ran the app, and all was well. Then I opened the file in design mode again, and all I could see was a sea of grey, with no controls visible. When I clicked on a control, a blue border would appear around it, but no other sign of the control was visible. I could drag new controls onto the sea of grey, but they were invisible too.
I have attached a screen shot of the "sea of grey," named "SeaOfGrey.tiff".
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I've been fighting this annoyance since FB4 came out, and while I still don't think that custom/embedded fonts in design view are fixed by this, I've been able to reproduce this "fix" (workaround) to get design view to show fonts/theme correctly under some very specific circumstances on two separate PCs.
If anyone from Adobe sees this I'd like to know whether this sounds familiar or is possibly logged as a bug already somewhere in JIRA.. if not I could probably do that as long as it won't be a wasted effort.
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You're using a Halo theme but certain CSS settings (specifically and possibly limited to FONTS) don't work properly in design view even though they work fine in Flash. Essentially this makes design view practically useless since choice of font family, size, and weight can effect component sizing if you aren't hard-coding component sizes (ugh)... ruining your efforts to use design view for UI design if your UI has any level of complexity (or uses absolute positioning at all).
The specific circumstances seem to be:
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You've upgraded a Flex 3 project to Flex 4 SDK (not sure if this is needed to reproduce the issue)
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You're using swc library files such as the Swiz lib, Mate, Flexlib, etc. (I think it's ANY swc, not specific to any one)
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If anyone has any idea what's going on here, why this 'fixes' the problem (a better work around), or has any other insight I'd love to hear it. The combo of needing to do two things (in my specific case) to fix the problem really made this a ROYAL PAIN, I still can't believe I found it.

Hi Fernando, sorry for the delayed response. CSS Design Mode is not available for Flex 4 projects, but it is still available in Flex 3 projects. The reason for this is that designing components in Flex 4 is often a lot different, since it relies highly on the new spark skinning architecture. There is, however, an Appearance panel available in design view which supplies a set of the main inheriting styles. Setting these styles in the Appearance panel will result in assigning values to a global style selector.
I hope this helps,
Rob

Flash Builder Design view

Hi all,
I have also an issue when trying to view a component in the Flash Builder 4 Design View (running on Eclipse 3.5 SP-2).
The design view does not open and I get an error message. When I look into the Eclipse "Error Log" view I see the following stack trace and session data as shown below...
I appreciate any hint what is going wrong here...
Thanks!
Paul
java.lang.NullPointerException
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at com.adobe.flexbuilder.mxml.editor.design.internal.MXMLDesignView4Commander.setFrameRate(M XMLDesignView4Commander.java:124)
at com.adobe.flexbuilder.designview.DesignViewPart$DesignShellListener.shellActivated(Design ViewPart.java:353)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:82)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
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at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Canvas.windowProc(Canvas.java:342)
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at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.windowProc(Shell.java:2010)
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at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.MessageBoxW(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.MessageBox(OS.java:2892)
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at com.adobe.flexbuilder.mxml.editor.design.MXMLDesignPart.startDesignView(MXMLDesignPart.ja va:208)
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at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:194)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLau ncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.jav a:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:368)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:559)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:514)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1311)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1287)
Session Data:
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.6.0_16
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=de_DE
Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product

I have the same problem, and can not get answer.
Today I try to use a standalone version, it‘s running good.
So, it may tell us that the problem may be only happen in the situation that using a plugin version FB4 and running on win 7.
If you just need flex and do not use j2ee, I suggest you using a standalone FB.

Flash Builder 4 - design view - states basedOn + design area widget

Hello,
Since i updated my project from Flex 3 to Flash Builder (4), i have very annoying issues in the design area.
The one in Flex 3 was quite usefull, but the new version is not easy, and straight forward usable.
Here are the 3 issues:
- when i have states designed from another one, i use the basedOn mxml attribute, which was used in Flex 3 and still exist in SDK 4 states system.
But the designer view in Flash Builder don't take those basedOn properties in account!
What can i do? and is it a known bug?
- When i have at least one precific state, i must define a defautl state, in the new SDK. Ok, but in design view, i cant add a new component without making the change only for one state. I can only make the change for the default state, but it will not be taken in account for all the other states, like i can do in Flex 3.
What i want to be able to do this: making changes in design view without selecting ANY state.
Is it possible? How can i do?
- In flex 3, there were a design area widget to select the resolution used for the preview design.
It was very usefull when the application has very dynamic width and height.
In Flash Builder, this widget has been removed.
Why has it been removed? and how can i preview my mxml views wihtout changing width and height values?
Thanks.
Seb

The update has been improved in every other areas, so it is not that much important.
I just hope that the new release will fix that (as it has been answered to my post).
The only thing i don't like in new releases of FB is that when the architecture of SDK is aimed to seperate the work between design and code, they focused only on catalyst to create the tools to manipulate design, and they forgot to keep an easy way to do design app directly in FB (with the design view and the style properties of MXML in FB3). But i'm confident that they will give such a tool soon.
But for now, if you don't like the restriction of the new release, you can continue to work with Flex 3 for 0$! And even in Flex 4, you can create MX components for which the design view will work as before. The fact that tools can manage a mix between MX and Spark components is a great thing. It is up to you to choose which you need which its own advantages and drawbacks.
Xcode is real pain to use with outdated ergonomy. It is only usefull to code in Objective C which is another real pain to do.
XCode can be cheapper because all Apple products are quite expansive, so the software to create softwares for them can be much more cheapper.
And Apple get a good revenue share from AppStore, so again they can give a cheap soft to create apps. You also have to pay 100$ to be able to send app to appstore, in ly opinion the good price for XCode should be 0$, not even 80$!
Flash builder 4 is very stable, but if you don't like it, you can choose another tool. Main competitor has no designer at all!

Flex iPad Application : Run code before application enters background Application Type: Flex Mobile Application Target Platform: iPad AIR Version: 4.0 Development Environment: Flash builder 4.6 I want to run some code just before iphone application goes

Application Type: Flex Mobile Application
Target Platform: iPad
AIR Version: 4.0
Development Environment: Flash builder 4.6
I want to run some code just before iphone application goes into background. I need function similar to didEnterBackground
of native xcode app
(https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIApplicationDelegat e_Protocol/Reference/Reference.h
tml#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/UIApplicationDelegate/applicationDidEnterBackground:)
I tried using devactivated function of flash.display.STAGE.
I used following addEventListener:
STAGE = this.parent.stage;
STAGE.addEventListener(Event.DEACTIVATE, onAppDeactivated);
It worked for me but only when device is connected to development environment in debug mode. When I create my release build
it is not working.
So how can I make sure that my code runs before application goes into background.

Even I am facing almost same issue
Problem installing Adhoc version to iPhone and iPad - Development Environment Is - Adobe Flash CS6

"Design" section on Flash Builder. Where is it?

Where is the "design" section of Flash Builder?
I have the latest version 4.7 from my Adobe Cloud. One of the phone support giving me a call back couldn't connect to my computer to see my screen, and told me to download the 4.6 version instead... what??!!
I am stuck on "code" only mode in my Fb system and can't do anything. How do I find my "design" mode for Flash Builder?
Also..... The "Chat" support on Adobe doesn't seem to be working... Anybody of you is able to connect to "chat" with adobe?

Hi,
Ever since Flash Builder 4.7, they dropped Design View. That's why they told you to use Flash Builder 4.6 instead.
There are 3 Flash Builder alternatives:
The best Flash Builder alternative is FDT, but it does not support MXML Design View.
http://fdt.powerflasher.com/
The 2nd choice is IntelliJ IDEA, you can download a MXML Design View plugin, it's very cool.
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/flex_ide.html
The 3rd choice is FlashDevelop, it's free and open sourced, but it's Windows only, and it does not support MXML Design View either.
http://www.flashdevelop.org/
DarkStone
2014-12-09

Flash Builder 4 - Beta / Design view sporadic at best

Okay, so I have installed the beta, and running through the Catalyst / Flash BUilder 4 tutorial, all is well, unitl i try to get the imprted fxp file to consistently display in the design mode. Not only that, but switching from code view to design view will break it just about 95% of the time, and then it will not display the created items that the tutorial has you put on them (i.e. the databinds to the names, etc etc).
Has anyone else experienced this? Other than a few little things like this, so far so good guys(ADOBE).
Thanks,
Craig Newroth

eh_adobe wrote:
Please be aware that using a newer SDK with Flash Builder Beta's Design View may have unpredictable results. I can't say specifically since I don't know what version you tried and what your document contained, but... let's pretend for a second that the SDK changed something in a component - its name, its package, or any method or properties in it. Design View was compiled with a specific version of the SDK, and would not know about that change, and so might not react very well to the document. Yes this is not ideal, but it's hard to avoid when the SDK is changing rapidly (at some point it will settle down, and this won't be an issue). We can look at ways to mitigate this.
I have had less unpredicatable results with recent builds of the SDK the latest being build 7988- I basically update from the svn trunk every 2-3 days look through the changes run the checkintests just to make sure all is ok then see what happens to be small testbed apps, I have been doing this for several months. I don't mind the IDE not dealing with the changes as long as it tells me why it can't. But the code should not break the IDE. Also i'm getting a little confused as some of the responses to some issues (not the design mode one) in this forum have suggested seeing what happens with updated SDK's.
Anyway I have reverted everything back to a standard FB4 install and the first thing that happened yet another new flaw in design mode rears its head, no errors but this time a visually definable issue. The component appears as a 1 dimension line in the top left hand corner of the design editor window, not even on the design view working canvas. Attached is a screen shot and the associated code that caused it. Please note the IDE didn't draw the big red ring around the visual glitch so thats one less bug to worry about.
     the app.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo" minWidth="1024" minHeight="768">
     <s:HSlider x="50" y="50" width="200" height="30" skinClass="skins.HSliderSkin"/>
</s:Application>
     skin part A.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


<s:SparkSkin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
       minHeight="11" minWidth="100"
       alpha.disabled="0.5">
    <fx:Metadata>
    <![CDATA[
      * @copy spark.skins.default.ApplicationSkin#hostComponent
         [HostComponent("spark.components.HSlider")]
    ]]>
    </fx:Metadata>
    <fx:Script>
        /* Define the skin elements that should not be colorized.
           For slider, the skin itself is colorized but the individual parts are not. */
        static private const exclusions:Array = ["track", "thumb"];
      * @copy spark.skins.SparkSkin#colorizeExclusions
        override public function get colorizeExclusions():Array {return exclusions;}
    </fx:Script>
    <s:states>
         <s:State name="normal" />
         <s:State name="disabled" />
    </s:states>
    <fx:Declarations>
     
        <fx:Component id="dataTip">
            <s:MXMLComponent minHeight="24" minWidth="40" y="-34">
                <s:Rect top="0" left="0" right="0" bottom="0">
                         <s:fill>
                              <s:SolidColor color="0x000000" alpha=".9"/>
                         </s:fill>
                         <s:filters>
                             <s:DropShadowFilter angle="90" color="0x999999" distance="3"/>
                        </s:filters>
                    </s:Rect>
                    <s:SimpleText id="labelElement" text="{data}"
                         horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="1"
                         left="5" right="5" top="5" bottom="5"
                         textAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle"
                         fontWeight="normal" color="white" fontSize="11">
                </s:SimpleText>
            </s:MXMLComponent>
        </fx:Component>
     </fx:Declarations>
    
    <s:Button id="track" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0"
              skinClass="skins.HSliderTrackSkin"/>
    
    <s:Button id="thumb" top="1" bottom="1" width="{hostComponent.height*1.5}" skinClass="skins.HSliderThumbSkin"/>
</s:SparkSkin>
     Skin Part B
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


<s:SparkSkin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark">
    <fx:Metadata>
    <![CDATA[
      * @copy spark.skins.default.ApplicationSkin#hostComponent
         [HostComponent("spark.components.Button")]
    ]]>
    </fx:Metadata>
    <s:states>
        <s:State name="up" />
        <s:State name="over" />
        <s:State name="down" />
        <s:State name="disabled" />
    </s:states>
    
    <s:Rect left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" radiusX="{hostComponent.height/2}" radiusY="{hostComponent.height/2}">
        <s:fill>
            <s:SolidColor color="0x4F4F4F" />
        </s:fill>
    </s:Rect>
     
     <s:Rect left="0.5" right="0.5" top="0.5" bottom="0.5" radiusX="{hostComponent.height/2}" radiusY="{hostComponent.height/2}">
          <s:stroke>
               <s:LinearGradientStroke rotation="90" weight="1">
                    <s:GradientEntry color="0x000000" alpha="0" />
                    <s:GradientEntry color="0x000000" alpha="0.33" />
               </s:LinearGradientStroke>
          </s:stroke>
          <s:fill>
               <s:LinearGradient rotation="90">
                    <s:GradientEntry color="0xFFFFFF"
                                      color.over="0xE5E5E5"
                                      color.down="0x999999" />
                    <s:GradientEntry color="0xD8D8D8"
                                      color.over="0x7D7D7D"
                                      color.down="0x555555" />
               </s:LinearGradient>
          </s:fill>
     </s:Rect>
     
</s:SparkSkin>
     Skin Part C
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


<s:SparkSkin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark">
    <fx:Metadata>
    <![CDATA[
      * @copy spark.skins.default.ApplicationSkin#hostComponent
         [HostComponent("spark.components.Button")]
    ]]>
    </fx:Metadata>
    <s:states>
        <s:State name="up" />
        <s:State name="down" />
        <s:State name="over" />
        <s:State name="disabled" />
    </s:states>
     
    <s:Rect left="-1" right="-1" top="0" bottom="-1" radiusX="{hostComponent.height/2}" radiusY="{hostComponent.height/2}">
        <s:fill>
            <s:LinearGradient rotation="90" >
                 <s:GradientEntry color="0x000000" alpha="0.55" />
                 <s:GradientEntry color="0xFFFFFF" alpha="0.55" ratio="0.8" />
            </s:LinearGradient>
        </s:fill>
    </s:Rect>
    
    <s:Rect left="0" right="0" top="1" bottom="0" radiusX="{hostComponent.height/2}" radiusY="{hostComponent.height/2}">
        <s:fill>
            <s:SolidColor color="0xCACACA" />
        </s:fill>
    </s:Rect>
     
     <s:Rect left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" radiusX="{hostComponent.height/2}" radiusY="{hostComponent.height/2}">
          <s:fill>
               <s:SolidColor alpha="0"/>
          </s:fill>
     </s:Rect>
</s:SparkSkin>

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