Flex debugger issue

When I run flex application it keeps showing popup window
saying
“Where is the debugger or host application
running?”
choose between : localhost or IP?
is anybody know how to avoid this?
Thanks!
Jamil

Can it be that your running the debug version of your
compiled flex appliaction (SWF file) ?
If I start the debug version outside Flexbuilder I got the
same question.
If I use the normal version no question is asked.
regards,
kcell

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I was trying to figure out why breakpoints were working fine for source files in some locations but not others. FlashDevelop's debugger (which I believe is actually the FLEXSDK debugger) was successfully connecting, tracing output, and hitting breakpoints in SOME files, but not others.
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I don't think it's the source path in my case, because it's simply the dot ".", although I did check that because it would most likely influence the embedded paths.
In the library path, I use relative paths exclusively, since all my individual project folders exist in the same "source" folder.
Here's how I arrived at the conclusion that something more complex or "stateful" must be occuring:
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updates version timestamps (static constants) in specific files via regex match
fills in a JSFL template with the FLA filename and writes the JSFL file to disk, then passes the JSFL file path to flash.exe for publication
the JSFL then runs a command, which signals the main application via cross-process communication that the script has finished publishing
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The C# app replaces the strings in all caps with the actual values. The COMPLETECOMMAND is actually populated with the application's own executable path, along with a "complete" switch, which lauches a 2nd instance, which handles the complete switch by broadcasting a signal over an interprocess channel and then terminates. The main instance captures the signal, triggers a wait handle, and continues with publishing the next file. Here is the core code for it:
private string fillTemplate( string fla_directory, string fla_filename, string publish_profile_name )
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So there may be any number of things going on here. SWCs may be published differently than SWFs, such that SWCs always have the correct letter case for debug source files, regardless of how the source FLA project was opened. Ensuring the path passed to publishDocument uses the right case definitely fixes the problem, but it doesn't explain why it usually worked, despite having always been passing a lowercase string. The only variable I can think of in all of this is Windows itself or Flash, such as whether the document was open in Flash at the time the silent JSLF publishDocument command ran, and how that FLA was last opened (via shortcut, via "recent documents" in Flash, via recent documents in Windows. It has to be something, even if it's something as obscure as how the folder path was last accessed in windows, although I strongly suspect it's just how (in terms of path case) the FLA was last opened in Flash.
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see the image:
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