Paul, I changed version to 4.6.0 in the ..\sdks\4.9.1\flex-sdk-description.xml file and design view works just fine. But I don't bank on it all the time. Eventually, like Nick, i'll have to re-train my brain and stop using Design view. Really a bummer they stopped working on that, it's great for quickly laying things out and tweeking positions of UI elements without itterating builds just to see how a 1 pixel adjustment looks.
Chris On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski <nicho...@spoon.as>wrote: > 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). > > > > > > > > >
