Installation of Flex

Hi ive downloaded the Flex 4.6 SDK but cannot see a dmg installer? Im new to the whole thing. Is flex not an installable programme? How do you connect the unzipped files to Flash Builder? How do i install/use Flex?
Thanks

The SDKs don’t have installers. You unzip the SDK and then configure the list of SDKs in Flash Builder. One way to get to that is to start a new project. When choosing the SDK for the new project there is an option to configure SDKs.

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Order of Installation of Flex Builder, SVG Viewer, XML Parser

Hello VC Experts,
I am beginner. I need to create Reports in VC using BW Queries. I am Facing Flex application error while deploying the model. Is there any specific order of Installation of Flex Builder, SVG Viewer, XML Parser?
Kindly help me to *** up this pblm.
Regards,
Geeta

Hi Geeta,
please do not open twice threads for the same issue.
I close your first thread here:
Error in compiling Flex application (1). Consult log file for details.
But first enable the flex error log in VC, then you can post us the error message.
Best Regards,
Marcel

Where can I download Flex Builder 3 installer?

My installation of Flex Builder 3 has somehow become corrupt and now I can't import web service (WSDL) files, it returns the error:
Unable to load the file /.metadata/.plugins/com.adobe.flexbuilder.webservices/wsdl.xml
I guess that this will probably be fixed by reinstalling Flex Builder, but I can't find where to download the installer; the links that say "Flex Builder 3" actually lead to Flash Builder 4 pages. I don't have any installation media or a local copy of the installer. I'm using the educational license.
Can anyone tell me where to download the installer?

Hi JonathanMelhuish,
Please checkout the link below.
http://www.dl4all.com/software/27321-adobe-flex-builder-3-professional-302.html
If this post answers your question or helps, please kindly mark it as such.
Thanks,
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Problème d'installation Flex

Bonjour à tous,
Voilà, mon problème est assez "simple" (...) dans le sens ou je ne parviens pas à installer Flex sur mon système actuel. Je dispose d'un Macbook pro avec Eclipse déjà installé dans le dosser /Applications/eclipse.
J'ai donc téléchargé le plugin Flex Builder 3. J'ai lancé l'installation tout à l'air de bien se passer, il installe les flashplayer pour les explorateurs web tout à l'air de bien se passer jusqu'à la fin ou je récupère un message que je ne comprends pas complètement (cf. la pièce jointe).
J'ai quand même fait ce qu'il m'a dit dans Eclipse mais depuis rien ne se passe. Aucun changement du côté de l'IDE eclipse et lorsque j'essaie de créer un nouveau projet il ne m'est toujours pas possible de créer un nouveau projet Flex ou queluqe-chose d'approchant...
Ai-je fait un bêtise quelque part ? C'est assez frustrant surtout que je me dis que c'est con de galérer sur ça... Alors j'espère que vous pourrez m'aider.
Bien cordialement,

Salut Thibaut,
Apperement l'installation essaye de faire un lien entre ton plugin eclipse et une éventuelle installation de Flex Builder installée sur ton poste, mais ne trouve pas cette dernière.
Cette erreur ne devrait pourtant pas être bloquante.
Si tu disposes déjà de Flex Builder essaye de le désinstaller et d'installer le plugin Eclipse avant de ré-installer FB.
Quand tu dis ne pas pouvoir créér de nouveau projet Flex, c'est que tu n'as pas l'option "Flex Project" dans File > New (Eclipse) ou qu'il y a une erreur ?

What do I need to build & deploy a Flex/Coldfusion standalone app?

I have been a CF developer for almost 10 years, but have no experience with Flex. I have a new opportunity to create Windows-based standalone applications. I have investigated .NET and I am not impressed as it just seems to be needlessly complex and bloated. Instead, I am considering leveraging my CF experience and taking a serious look at Flex with ColdFusion.
My application needs to run on PCs that are located on boats at sea. Their only connection to the Internet is via a satellite modem. The standalone app. needs to have data entered, which is stored in a local database. When the skipper is ready, he/she will switch the modem on, transmit the saved data (takes about 10 seconds) and switch the modem off. This means that the application code, runtime environment, database, and services (e.g. ColdFusion cfcs) must all be loaded on the PC. Also, I do not want the application to run in a web browser (many boats have old versions of Windows and IE).
I understand that I should be able to do this by using the AIR runtime.
Here are my questions/challenges:
1.) The application itself must be provided free of charge. Would I be required to purchase a ColdFusion licence for each installed copy of the application?
2.) If I would have to pay a licensing fee for each CF installation, will Flex 4 work with an open source CF engine such as Open BlueDragon or Ralio instead?
3.) Any suggestions regarding the database that I should use (e.g. Derby, H2, SQL Server Express)?
4.) Installation must be simple. Skippers must be able to download an installation file (e.g. an .exe) and run it. The install program must install the database, the latest Flash player for Windows, the CF engine, and the generated .swf files, cfc files, etc. Can all of this be bundled up when FlashBuilder and/or AIR prepares an application for deployment? When the application is run, it must start the database engine and the CF engine in addition to the Flash front-end.
I'm eagerly await your answers with fingers crossed. This project has the potential to create a very cool, unique application!

Hi Paul, thanks for the quick reply.
We have created the onboard app., but not in Flex. It is written in ColdFusion (version 8) with AJAX and uses an Apache Derby database and Open BlueDragon as the CF engine. The whole thing runs in a browser onboard. We had a custom Java launcher written. It starts the database and Open BlueDragon and then launches the PC's default browser with the localhost URL of the application home page. The biggest drawback with this whole approach has been browser compatibility. Some boats still use IE version 6. Our application simply won't work on versions IE prior to 7.0. It also takes quite a while for the launcher to start up all of the related applications, etc. The application runs more slowly than it would as a desktop application since web pages have to load as the user moves from one screen to another.
I am investigating whether we should re-write our application from scratch using Flex/AIR. My hope is that that we can put together all of the parts of the application in a single, standalone environment. Through some investigation, I have just realized that AIR includes SQLLite, so we won't need a separate database/launcher. We also won't need to use AJAX since the Flash will provide a UI that has all of the flexibility that we'll need. I also assume that the AIR runtime will include a standalone Windows Flash Player, so we don't need to use whatever web browser is on the boats.
So far, everything sounds great. My only remaining question is whether I could create the data access services as ColdFusion CFCs without having to install ColdFusion on the onboard PCs. I've been looking through the Adobe literature and it seems to imply that AIR can use ColdFusion 9 CFCs without CF being installed, but I cannot find a definitive statement on this. If this is the case, I will download CF 9, CF Builder, Flash Builder, and AIR and start learning and building right away.

Flex Ant Tasks html-wrapper problem

I'm getting BUILD SUCCESSFUL and an SWF file, but no HTML
wrapper. Any help is appreciated!
Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006
Buildfile:
C:\Installs\MTCSEWorkspace\MTCSE_WebApp\flex-build.xml
parsing buildfile
C:\Installs\MTCSEWorkspace\MTCSE_WebApp\flex-build.xml with URI =
file:/C:/Installs/MTCSEWorkspace/MTCSE_WebApp/flex-build.xml
Project base dir set to:
C:\Installs\MTCSEWorkspace\MTCSE_WebApp
[antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from
resource org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found.
Build sequence for target(s) `wrapper' is [compile, wrapper]
Complete build sequence is [compile, wrapper, ]
compile:
[mxmlc] Loading configuration file
C:\Installs\MTCSEStudio\Flex Builder 3
Plug-in\sdks\2.0.1\frameworks\flex-config.xml
[mxmlc]
C:\Installs\MTCSEWorkspace\MTCSE_WebApp\target\MTCSE_WebApp/ValidValueTest.swf
(592822 bytes)
wrapper:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 18 seconds
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<project name="My App Builder" basedir=".">
<property name="FLEX_HOME"
value="C:\Installs\MTCSEStudio\Flex Builder 3
Plug-in\sdks\2.0.1" />
<property name="ANT_HOME"
value="C:\Installs\MTCSEStudio\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.7.0.v200706080842"
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<property name="MTCSE_WebApp"
value="C:\Installs\MTCSEWorkspace\MTCSE_WebApp" />
<property name="DEPLOY_DIR"
value="C:\Installs\MTCSEWorkspace\MTCSE_WebApp\target\MTCSE_WebApp"
/>
<taskdef resource="flexTasks.tasks"
classpath="${ANT_HOME}/lib/flexTasks.jar" />
<target name="main">
<mxmlc
file="${MTCSE_WebApp}/flex_src/ValidValueTest.mxml"
keep-generated-actionscript="false"
output="${DEPLOY_DIR}/ValidValueTest.swf">
<load-config
filename="${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks/flex-config.xml" />
<source-path path-element="${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks" />
</mxmlc>
<html-wrapper swf="ValidValueTest"
output="${DEPLOY_DIR}" />
</target>
</project>

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Apache Flex SDK 4.14.0

Apache Flex 4.14 Released! : Apache Flex
Apache Flex 4.14 is a update to Apache Flex 4.13.0 and follows the trend of compatibility of Adobe Flex 4.6. Apache Flex 4.14 adds support for the latest Flash Player and AIR runtimes, promises, native support for tables in TLF, the Spark RichTextEditor component, FlatSpark skins and components, and iOS7 and Android 4.x mobile themes.
Apache Flex is available in source form from the following download page:
http://flex.apache.org/download-source.html
You can read the release notes from the following page to find out what has changed from the last version:
http://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.14.0/RELEASE_NOTES
It's recommended you install Apache Flex by using the Apache Flex IDE installer:
http://flex.apache.org/installer.html
When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads using signatures or MD5 hashes.
For more information on Apache Flex, visit the project home page:
http://flex.apache.org

Apache Flex 4.14.1 Released! : Apache Flex
The Apache Flex community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flex 4.14.1.
Apache Flex is a highly productive, open source application framework for building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv).
Apache Flex 4.14.1 is a minor update to Apache Flex 4.14.0 and follows the trend of compatibility of Adobe Flex 4.6. Apache Flex 4.14.1 fixes over a dozen bugs and and adds minor new features.
Apache Flex is available in source form from the following download page:
http://flex.apache.org/download-source.html
You can read the release notes from the following page to find out what has changed from the last version:
http://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.14.1/RELEASE_NOTES
It's recommended you install Apache Flex by using the Apache Flex IDE installer:
http://flex.apache.org/installer.html
When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads using signatures or MD5 hashes.
For more information on Apache Flex, visit the project home page:
http://flex.apache.org
FB team, please integrate some sort of auto-notification of updated Apache Flex SDK versions, like there is a News entry about 4.12.0.

Cannot run the samples in Flex Builde beta 3

The installation of Flex Builder finished OK. I did choose to
install Flash 9.0 in both IE and FF, but for some reason when going
to the examples it asks me to install Flesh 8.0. Even if I say yes
to th eprompt it doesn't display.
I have even re-installed the flas Active X manually and even
regieterd it as per instructions on the Installation of Flex
Builder 2.0 beta 3 page,, but still no luck...
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

P.S. I asked Chris Agruss (our build and installer guru)
about some
possible reasons why the Flash player installer might have
failed to
work for IE. I've attached his reply.
Rebecca - Adobe
Here are a few cases I know about where the ActiveX plugin
for FP won�t
be installed normally:
� IE is running at the time, and especially if activeX
has been run
� Outlook, or some other program that runs the IE
engine under the hood,
is running
� Older ActiveX version installed that needs some Dark
Magic, or
explicit uninstallation of some sort
In the first two cases, where IE is in use, the plugin will
normally be
installed after a reboot, but until then it will look as if
the
installation didn�t work.
-ChrisAg
Rebecca Hyatt wrote:
> My guess is that something went wrong with your
installation of Flash
> Player 9 in IE failed for some reason (?), and that you
have IE
> configured as the default browser on your system (so
that's the one that
> FB launches).
>
> Uninstalling/reinstalling (with IE not running) might
fix the IE/Flash
> Player install.
>
> Changing the default browser to Firefox would be an
alternative
> solution... FB would launch to Firefox instead, where
the install seems
> to have worked correctly.
>
> Rebecca - Adobe
>
> mikiM wrote:
>
>> We are stuck and no idea where to go from here.
>> System: Win XP Professional, sp 2 with the latest
patches
>> CFMX Developer Edition 7.01 with updater 1
>> Clean installation of Flex Builder 2.0 beta 3,
finished OK. During
>> the installation Had selected to install the new
flash player 9 for
>> both IE (6.1) and FF (1.5)
>> Flex Builder Opens OK and displays the help properly
>> Clicking on any of the examples asks me if I want to
install Flash 8,
>> Even if I choose yes it doesn't display anything and
if I select
>> another example it will ask me again.
>>
>> Trying to run the same examples in directly in IE
fails, but works in
>> FF.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> BTW this is from the installation log
>>
>> Installation: Successful.
>>
>> 484 SUCCESSES
>> 0 WARNINGS
>> 0 NONFATAL ERRORS
>> 0 FATAL ERRORS
>>
>>

Flex 2.0.1 SDK Hotfix 1 breaking Flex Charting?

Hi all,
I applied the Flex SDK 2.0.1 Hotfix 1 listed in
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=kb401224
to my Eclipse Flex Plugin environment with SDK 2.0.1. Unfortunately
this seems to have broken flex charting with the following
compilation errors in my project: Unable to resolve a class for
ResourceBundle: charts.
Now the SDK doesn't have the charts.swc file, so I tried
copying over the charts.swc from my old SDK folder to the
frameworks\libs folder under the new hotfixed SDK. This doesn't
seem to fix the error however. It makes sense as charting it a
separate component but maybe there is an upgraded chart version as
well to work with the hotfixed SDK?
Can anyone provide any guidance here, we are in dire
straights. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Jason

Nope, doesn't say anthing about that
To update the Flex Builder 2 Eclipse plug-in on Windows:
1. Read the Flex Builder 2 Release Notes for any
late-breaking information, updates, and known issues.
2. Download the Flex Builder 2.0.1 Update Installer for
Windows from the Adobe Flex Support Center.
3. Open or double-click the installer executable file.
4. Accept the license agreement and follow the prompts.
5. If the installer detects multiple installations of Flex
Builder 2, it prompts you for the location to be updated.
6. Select which Flash Player 9 browser plug-in to install:
* Internet Explorer
* Netscape or Firefox
Note: Flex Builder 2.0.1 and Flex SDK 2.0.1 can run with the
base version of Flash Player 9 (Version: 9,0,16,0 dated 6/27/07).
However, it's best to install the Flash Player 9 Update.
7. (Optional) When the installation finishes, restart your
computer to ensure that the updated Flash Player browser plug-in is
enabled.
8. Start Flex Builder.

Uninstalling Flex 3 along w/ License

Hello everyone,
I'm going to give my friend my old PC, where Flex 3 is installed.
I need help uninstalling Flex 3 on my old PC and also remove the license along w/ it.
Because if i uninstall Flex 3, and my friend installs his Flex 3, i says it is already licensed. but he wants to use the license he purchased
I need help to remove the license in my old PC w/o reformatting the PC.
Thanks for you help.... and i'm lookin-forward to a prompt reply... Thanks again *Cheers*

I have a feeling that you'll probably have to contact Adobe
directly for this issue...
"Important Note: These online forums are for user-to-user
discussions of Adobe products, and are not an official customer
support channel for Adobe. If you require direct assistance, or
prefer to contact Adobe support staff directly, please contact
Adobe Support.
"

Flex & GPU vs. headless performance

I've used note 886209 to update my HP-UX EP7 installation's flex-config.xml so I can compile & deploy flex applications developed with VC. However, while at TechEd I was told that adding a graphics card to the server would help performance, as the rendering could be off-loaded to the GPU. Im having trouble finding any performance notes regarding this however; I can find quite a bit of documentation on using the headless parameter to enable compilation without a graphics card, but nothing indicating that this would be significantly slower than using the GPU, or what kind of improvement we'd see if we purchased a graphics card (we'd need three, one for each of DEV, QAS, & PRD).
Does anyone have any performance testing results or pointers to similar information to build a business case for adding GPU's to headless Unix workstations for Flex?
Thanks!
Rich
Message was edited by: Rich Holland

In general, it shouldn't make that big of a difference, so I wouldn't strongly advocate one way or the other. If oyu have a graphics card, it will be used for processing. If you're doing an immense amount of work in VC, then you now have separate hardware (graphics card) that can be used for rendering. Ultimately, graphics cards are cheap. If you do a TCO analysis, it's a no brainer.

How do I install Linux Mint 17 from USB on Flex 10?

Hello everybody,
I want to install Linux Mint 17 on my Lenovo Flex 10 device.
I tried to make two different bootable installation USB sticks using the Rufus software but when I try to boot from them, the boot menu show only Windows. It seems that Flex 10 doesn't like my USB sticks. One is former Mandriva USB, the other is ADATA S102/8GB USB 3.0. Should I try another USB stick?
I've read several threads relating to this; someone suceeded, more people didn't get any answer.
One suspicious thing is that Rufus says that I need an EFI ISO image when I choose the UEFI MBR or UEFI GPT partition scheme. Isn't the Mint ISO an EFI ISO image? So the only option that remains is "BIOS or UEFI" scheme. I think that should work but it doesn't. They say that Mint 16 already supports UEFI. So Mint 17 should too.
Other thing is that there might be an issue with 32/64bit UEFI. How do I switch between 32 and 64 bit UEFI?
Am I missing something? What am I doing wrong?
--CIgydd Bach
Solved!
Go to Solution.

So I'm going to answer my question myself. * Edit: An ironic note to Lenovo removed. They don't deserve it. *
For everybody who wants to boot or install Linux to Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 10:
Flex 10 has a 64-bit processor but a 32-bit EFI (UEFI) firmware!
Therefore I guess most of us have 32-bit Windows pre-installed for it.
Because Microsoft is so poor that they cannot provide us with a 64-bit system with a 32-bit bootloader. Oops, they cannot provide Lenovo with that combination.
And Lenovo, you guys prepared me a hell solving the riddle why only my Flex 10 doen't boot Linux, neither 32-bit distros nor the 64-bit ones.
* Edit: Not removing this one. Yes, you prepared me a hell but it was also a big fun solving the riddle. *
Because the 32-bit distros don't count with UEFI at all (they suppose older firmware, so called BIOS) and the 64-bit ones don't count with a 32-bit UEFI.
So I had to download a bootloader one guy precompiled for others to boot the USB with the installation ISO image for Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. Here is the bootloader file:
https://github.com/jfwells/linux-asus-t100ta/blob/master/boot/bootia32.efi
The next post was very helpful to me. There I discovered that I have to download or compile a 32-bit UEFI bootloader:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Flex-10-the-installation-of-Linux/td-p/1516596/page/2
And here I finally followed the instructions how to boot to the USB stick and it helped me a lot in the overall process and progress:
http://www.jfwhome.com/2014/03/07/perfect-ubuntu-or-other-linux-on-the-asus-transformer-book-t100/
There you will see that you have to follow these steps:
Shrink your C drive in Windows and create a new partition to be deleted and re-used by Linux (Windows doesn't like surprises).
Turn off the Windows Fast Boot option (or Windows could damage your Linux partitions).
Compile or download (see above) a bootloader for the USB stick.
Boot the stick, make sure the live image runs.
Run the installation from the live system and install your Linux to the space you created previously (by deleting the new partition and creating root, home and swap partitions there).
Boot to the newly installed system using the USB stick (you still aren!t able to boot to Linux from disk).
You can skip the step of compiling WiFi drivers. On Flex 10, they work perfectly out of the box.
Following the instructions on the last linked page, compile Grub for 32-bit EFI and install it onto your disk. Here I suggest a slight change against the instructions. Don't name the compiled Grub "grubx64.efi" but leave the name "grubia32.efi". I don't know why but after leaving this name, my Flex started to boot Ubuntu from disk.
Edit: You don't have to compile Grub. In your newly installed system, issue the three following commands (this will install the Grub version for 32-bit UEFI, remove the 64-bit UEFI version, and clean up possible mess caused by removing it):
sudo apt-get install grub-efi-ia32
sudo apt-get remove grub-efi-amd64
sudo grub-install
Don't forget to change Grub settings in /etc/default/grub. Also do not forget to run the command "sudo upgrade-grub".
You can skip the step with compiling new kernel with Flex. Hardware support seems already pretty good (except of touchpad).
The touchpad interprets a single tap with a finger as a right click. You can disable tapping and get used to the buttons as a temporary solution. It doesn't swap the buttons if you set so. If you are left-handed as me, you can force the swap of the buttons by issuing xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" from a terminal or from a script that you can run automatically on startup.
I followed exactly the same steps with Linux Mint with a full success.
On the start, I thought that Linux installation on Flex 10 was impossible.
As you can see, it is possible. And if you want, you will succeed and reach that goal.
--CIgydd Bach

Flex 2.0.1 Available

We've released Flex 2.0.1 - this is an update to Flex 2.0. If
you have Flex Builder 2.0, this download is an update. Do not
delete your Flex 2.0; the 2.0.1 will update your existing
configuration.
For the SDK and Flex Data Services, these are just new files,
same with Charting.
Link to the Flex 2.0.1 Update:
Flex
Support Center
Please update your Flex 2 installation as soon as you can.

Nope, doesn't say anthing about that
To update the Flex Builder 2 Eclipse plug-in on Windows:
1. Read the Flex Builder 2 Release Notes for any
late-breaking information, updates, and known issues.
2. Download the Flex Builder 2.0.1 Update Installer for
Windows from the Adobe Flex Support Center.
3. Open or double-click the installer executable file.
4. Accept the license agreement and follow the prompts.
5. If the installer detects multiple installations of Flex
Builder 2, it prompts you for the location to be updated.
6. Select which Flash Player 9 browser plug-in to install:
* Internet Explorer
* Netscape or Firefox
Note: Flex Builder 2.0.1 and Flex SDK 2.0.1 can run with the
base version of Flash Player 9 (Version: 9,0,16,0 dated 6/27/07).
However, it's best to install the Flash Player 9 Update.
7. (Optional) When the installation finishes, restart your
computer to ensure that the updated Flash Player browser plug-in is
enabled.
8. Start Flex Builder.

Installation experience feedback

I posted a detailed walk-through of problems I ran into
during the installation of Flex Builder 3. It was painful, but I
made it through.
http://primordial.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/adobe-flex-builder-3-installation-continued/
Now that its installed, I'm looking forward to giving it a
go!

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Problem with Sample Application

I downloaded the source code for the PhotoViewer sample app.
When I open the project in Flex 2 Builder four(4)
instances of an error appear : "Unable to resolve a class for
ResourceBundle: strings" I googled and found a suggestion
to "clean" the project which I did but still get the errors.
I've tried this on 3 different workstations (with fresh
downloadsand fresh installs of Flex and CF7.0.2) and all end up
with the same error.
Is it bad code ?

PhotoViewer makes use of Resource Bundle code, please use the
below command to compile
%FLEX_HOME%/bin/mxmlc -use-network=false
-library-path+=%FLEX_HOME%/frameworks/locale/{locale}
-source-path+=locale/{locale} -locale=en_US PhotoViewer.mxml

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