Flex Builder Tip - Preferences > General > Web Browser
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
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Flex Builder has some impressive documentation but under the Eclipse internal web browser it is not ideal. With the Eclipse internal web browser you cannot select/copy/paste code examples making this documentation almost unusable. This is easy to change though! There is a preference in Flex Builder/Eclipse under Preferences > General > Web Browser to use an external browser for Help documentation. Once you make this change you will be reusing all the code examples within the documentation like a pro.
I will be the first to admit to copy and pasting from the documentation examples because they are a really great resource for learning Flex. Once you set the help to use an external browser, you will see how valuable these are.
Copy, Paste, Compile ... it works! :)
Cheers,
Ted :)
On Mac, if you select "Firefox" as your browser and access help while Firefox is running, you get an error saying that only one instance of Firefox can be running at a time.
If you set it to "System Default Browser", this doesn't happen.
Really it would be nice if the internal browser were better, and if you could also test Flex applications from the internal browser.
Thanks for the added tip there. Ahhh much better.
Ted :)
Rather than have to change your default browser for this application, you can hit the "New" button on the Web Browsers dialogue and enter the following params...
Name: FirefoxTest (or anything you like)
Location: /usr/bin/open
Parameters: -a firefox %URL%
This works on Mac OS X 10.4.* but doesn't (apparently) on 10.3.*
Safari 2 was pretty poor at rendering the help pages (sticky - didn't respond to mouse wheel). Safari 3 Beta seems a lot better - though clicking on an item in the contents tree causes it to disappear.
This works nicely for the help documentation. Thanks, Ted! However, I find that Flex Builder won't let you change the browser with which a debug session is started.
It seems that Flex Builder is storing the debug browser use with the Flex project when it gets first created, based on what the selection of the browser is in the Preferences. Thereafter, no matter what the Preferences is set to, Flex Builder will disregard that setting for debugging the project.
I have asked around to see whether this behavior can be controlled elsewhere, but have yet to receive any helpful information.
Any suggestions anyone?
I'm facing the same problem as Jurgen...started a project (on OS X) using Safari and now need debug to launch Firefox instead. Flex is ignoring the settings in Eclipse and continues to launch using Safari. Any idea where this setting is stored or how to modify it?
Chris
I did the same thing - Preferences->General->Web Browser in Flex Builder 3 Pro and it changed my web-browser.
Aditya kumar Pandey