Flex Builder 3 Backwards Compatibility

Hello,
I was wondering which versions of Flash are Flex 3 and Flex
Builder 3 compatible with. The clients I'm building the Flex app
for are still on 9.0.16.0, on an isolated network, and may be
awhile till they upgrade. Is FB3 compatible with that version, or
is there a compiler option to make it so? I noticed for instance
that a simple ComboBox wouldn't work in that version - it caused
the Flash page not to completely load. It did work with a later
version of flash, so I suspected it is a compatibility issue.
Thanks,
Dan

Flex 3 requires player 9.0.115. But, in FB3 you can set the
compatibility version so you can compile against the Flex 2 SDK
which can be run by earlier versions of the player.
To do this select Project > Properties > Flex Compiler.
Select "Use a Specific SDK" and then select Flex 2.0.1 Hotfix
from the drop down.
hth,
matt horn
flex docs

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[svn] 4070: Addressing backwards compatibility issue with states.

Revision: 4070
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-11-11 13:13:43 -0800 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
Log Message:
Addressing backwards compatibility issue with states.
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Doc Notes: None
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http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17395
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Addressing backwards compatibility issue with states.
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http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17395
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