Paul, Design View is no longer supported for anything that we (Apache) produce. Flash Builder 4.6 and below tied the specific SDK version with a special module within the IDE that was used to render the DV. We don't have the ability to patch FB4.6 (esp. since FB 4.7 replaced it, and no longer support DV).
Unfortunately, this is one thing that we have no control over. Adobe was very clear that DV was end-of-life as of 4.6. According to them, they felt nobody used it, so it wasn't worth supporting anymore. (I personally used it all the type to lay out my apps before I did any coding, but have since retrained my brain to do it via code). I know some of the other IDEs have taken a stab at doing something like DV -- I don't think any of them got very far (IntelliJ has something that renders the display in near-realtime, but it is not a click-and-drag type of interface like you may be used to). -Nick On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Paul Hastings <paul.hasti...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 7/30/2013 10:17 PM, Chris Martin wrote: > >> I use FB 4.6 and I actually have to modify the flex-sdk-description file >> to >> say 4.6.0 because when it detects newer versions of Flex, it will >> forceably >> say that the version of flex is not compatible with design view. Still >> trying to get an eye out for an IDE that supports a design view so I can >> move off of Flash Builder 4.6 >> > > what exactly did you modify? when i simply changed "version" to "4.6.0" in > that file, the design view button does become enabled but FB only shows a > black or light gray screen when you try to use it. if i want a functioning > design view i have to swap to sdk 4.6.0 (but do that a few times & eclipse > becomes violently drunk & has to be shut down). > > > >
