View Source Option

I'm using just the plain old Flex SDK 2, and am wondering if
there's somethign i can add to my myapp-config.xml or the command
line to get it to generate the "view source" option that Flex
Builder provides so easily?
I like being able to quickly add this feature, but being a
poor college student I like not needing Flex Builder 2, and I also
like to avoid heavy IDEs when they can be avoided.

It's moved to ... Tools > Web Developer > View Source

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HTML code displays on one line in browser view source

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How can I view source on an app (preferably before installing)?

An app for Firefox OS is programmed in HTML and JavaScript. So, just like a webpage, I should be able to View Source, right? That's always been the empowering Mozilla approach, as far as I understand. View Source is great for learning by example (just like how I originally learnt HTML!), but also for open audit. Ideally I'd like the opportunity to look over the code before I agree to install.
If I go to https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/astroalpaca using my desktop browser, or if I find it in Marketplace using my ZTE Open, I can't see a View Source option anywhere. Where is it please?
I can understand not showing it on a small phone screen, but there's no reason why someone visiting Marketplace with a laptop/desktop web browser shouldn't download and inspect the app package.
If it doesn't exist (I'm starting to suspect this is the case), then where's my empowerment? What makes these fxos apps any less of an impenetrable consumer black box than android apps?

Wow OK. So for future reference, "View Source" (Ctrl+u) doesn't do it, since I guess the button comes from JS. So instead you need to:
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* In the panel you get to see the source code for the button which includes the URL to the .webapp file (it might be hosted separately as in the example, or on the marketplace)
* You can copy and paste that URL and then open that file to see where the app content is delivered from, and then if you follow those paths you can view the HTML, JS etc.
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JimP: Setting View Source's srcpath -- how?

Gentlepersons,
Here's a tiny liittle Flex app:
I'd love to show you the source to this app, but I don't know how to do so. I have been pounding Google and reading books (half a dozen so far) and none of them say how to specify the path of the "View Source" menu item. They say "Just select Project ->Export Release Build, check the View Source option, and voila! You're done!" But that is not the end of the process. That's just the start.
- How, *exactly*, does one place a Flex app on a given web page? Obviously, I've learned a tidbit or two about this, or I wouldn't be able to place the above app in this web page. But maybe I'm doing it wrong, and perhaps that wrongness is causing my View Source problems.
- The app above is online at http://www.igetitmusic.com/blog/SWFs/Tweener/Tweener.swf. To get it there, I copied the entire bin-release folder to my server's SWFs folder, and renamed it after the project name ("Tweener"). Is this the right thing to do?
- The above app's View Source menu item looks for its source code in some apparently-random place. I say "apparently-random," because I cannot find documented anywhere the process by which this path's default is determined, and the process by which you set it to something other than the default.
The question, then, is this: What, *exactly* -- leaving out no "obvious" steps -- is the algorithm for publishing a Flex application to the Web, such that its View Source menu item works?
The meta-question is, where is this algorithm documented? I suspect that this as-yet unread tome will hold the key to answering many other similar questions that have been bugging me.
Overall, I am really enjoying the process of learning Flex. It's this "obvious" stuff that's tripping me up (and thereby bugging the crap outa me)...
Respectfully, and with sincere appreciation for any help, I am
Yours,
Jim Plamondon
Austin, Texas
www.igetitmusic.com/blog

Gentlepersons,
This turns out to be a known bug in Flex 3, which has been fixed in Flex 4 (which is still in development).
In the meantime, the workaround is to expose, in the web page in which a SWF is embedded, a separate link to that SWF's source code (labelled something like "click here for source code").
Hoping that this helps, I remain
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iGetIt! Music
www.igetitmusic.com/blog
Austin, Texas

I recently upgraded to FireFox 8.0. Now I can no longer see the option to view source code. Where has this gone?

Nothing more to add, cannot find view source.

"Ctrl+U" or in the View Menu
If you want to see the keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 menus, the removal was Microsoft's doing, and can be restored see item #9 in
* http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/windows-7/win7.htm#steps
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* javascript:location="view-source:"+location
Keyboard shortcuts
* Keyboard shortcuts | How to | Firefox Help https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts
* Firefox and other Browser Keyboard Shortcuts (Comparison Table) http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/keyboard.htm
Keyword shortcuts:
* Firefox Keyword Shortcuts http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/kws.htm
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* http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface
There is a lot more beyond those first 10 steps listed, if you want to make Firefox more functional.
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View Source not showing up in context menu?

Yes I did choose to allow view source during the release
build. I also uploaded the source folder to the server. I can
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automatic?
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Originally posted by:
levancho
if you are using FB3 you can you feature called : "Export
Project" and it does everything for you, including view Source
Feature,
just select your project and then click on Project -->
Export Project
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That is exactly what I did, I go to Export Release Build, I
select View Source, I choose which files to show, I name what
directory I want it to be in. I click Finish, Then I upload
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when I right click the .swf. But as a work around I can add the
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Disabling VIew source property in IE

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Cannot edit source after selecting View | Source (Cntl-U)

After installing Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13, I cannot edit source text when I select "View" | "Source" (Cntl-U).
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The built in option is a source viewer, not an editor. You can change this to use an external application.
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