Flex Designviewer doesn't show GUI, just an orange background

[lima]

Technically this is not an AXDT issue, but it is relevant to AXDT as it keeps the plugin from being fully usable.

I'm able to open an .mxml document in the Designviewer editor just fine; the editor comes up and shows the file contents. However, if I click the tab for the graphical Designviewer itself, all I see is orange. I did a bit of checking, and it appears that my installation of eclipse isn't even running JS so as to load the page.

I have tried two fresh installs of Eclipse, both using XULRunner, and I cannot make the flash component of Designviewer work to any degree.

[mb0]

you probably have a profile in your home folder ( ~\.mozilla\eclipse\prefs.js on linux) that is still used after the fresh install.

just as with firefox you can open the eclipse own internal web browser view and point it to about:config to check and modify the effective configuration for xulrunner.

you can look up details about configuration directives at http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs .

hope that helps!

[lima]

Thanks for those pointers. I checked to make sure JS was enabled, did some elimination through testing, and found that JS is working fine in XULRunner. However, the Flash plugin was not properly installed for all my Mozilla apps; that was the source of the trouble. It was working for Firefox, but I had to reinstall to get it working with XULRunner as well. Pop that in place, reload the Designviewer, and voila! Hopefully this information will be helpful to other users who run into problems with Flash in Eclipse.

While I'm here, thanks for building and sharing this IDE. A really excellent asset for RIA development on a shoe-string!