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Trouble creating a new FlexViewer instance.

SeanCook — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:14:17 GMT

Hello all, I am having some trouble creating a new Flexviewer instance, and I am not sure why. My guess is that I am missing something straightforward. I possibly have two problems.

A. I CAN create a v.2.5 Flexviewer on my C: drive.

B. I Cannot create a v.3.0 Flexviewer on my C: drive. I get an error on trying to run it stating:

"File not found: file:/C:/Users/228972/Adobe%20Flash%20Builder%204.5/TestViewer/bin-debug/index.html"

C. I cannot create either on my network drive, where I would like to have it. When I click to import, it does not ask me which SDK version I would like to use. It fails to add the new viewer to the Package Explorer, and puts a subset of the files into the appropriate folder, but not all of them. It leaves out the folders .settings and bin-debug.

Any help is much appreciated!

Re: Trouble creating a new FlexViewer instance.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:22:48 GMT

Sean,

There are a couple of ways you could do this but try following these steps:

Extract flexviewer-3.0pr-src.zip to some location on your HD (i.e. C:\Flex_Stuff)

Once unzipped you will end up with a folder like 'ArcGIS-ArcGISViewerForFlex-16b7ba8' in your destination you choose in step 1.

open that folder and locate the .project folder and right click it and choose open with > notepad.exe

change the <name> tag from FlexViewer to FlexViewer3.0pr and save the file.

now rename the 'ArcGIS-ArcGISViewerForFlex-16b7ba8' folder to 'flexviewer-3.0pr'

copy the whole 'flexviewer-3.0pr' folder to your 'C:/Users/228972/Adobe Flash Builder 4.5/' location

In Flash Builder go to the file menu and choose 'Import Flash Builder Project...' switch to Project folder and browse to 'C:/Users/228972/Adobe Flash Builder 4.5/flexviewer-3.0pr'

Click Finish

Add the agslib-3.0pre-2012-03-15.swc to the libs folder.

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Re: Trouble creating a new FlexViewer instance.

SeanCook — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:17:58 GMT

Tried that out and got the same error:

File not found: file:/C:/Users/228972/Adobe%20Flash%20Builder%204.5/flexviewer-3.0pr/bin-debug/index.html

That does create the bin-debug folder properly, but no index.html for some reason. Is index.html created on import or when you first compile the project? Thanks for the help!

Re: Trouble creating a new FlexViewer instance.

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:59:06 GMT

Sean,

It should get created in the bin-debug when you run the app. You need to check you problems window to see if there is some build issue listed there.

Re: Trouble creating a new FlexViewer instance.

AnthonyGiles — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:05:08 GMT

Sean,

I have had instances before where my project will not launch and it complains about the index.html. I fixed the issue by performing a clean build, see below from adobe's website:

Performing a clean build
After a project has been built, subsequent builds affect only the resources that have been added or modified. To force the Flex Builder compiler to rebuild all resources in a project, you can perform a clean build. You might perform a clean build if, for example, you want to eliminate all potential sources of a problem you encountered when testing your application.

1.Select Project > Clean from the main menu.
2.Select the project (or projects) whose build files you want to discard and rebuild from scratch.
3.Click OK.

Regards

Anthony