Thursday, November 15, 2007

Flex Builder 2 with Eclipse 3.3

The latest version of Eclipse (3.3) fixes a superficial problem for Mac OS X users, the icon in the Dock was never the one that would actually run the program, and the one that ran the program could never be in the Dock.  This was a nice fix.
However, now that I'm doing some work with Flex Builder 2, and it's only supported by Eclipse 3.2, I really miss the 3.3 fix for the Dock.  I did some Googling and found this article that details how to get the Flex Builder 2 to work with Eclipse 3.3 with only one little "issue" that has a resolution provided.
UPDATE: This doesn't work!
It started to but then ran into a bunch of problems.  Instead, I read in a comment by Mike Morearty on his blog that the latest Flex Builder 3 beta (from Adobe Labs) works with Eclipse 3.3 and you can specify within the preferences (Windows --> Preferences for Windows, Eclipse --> Preferences for Mac; then Flex --> Installed Flex SDKs) that you want the builder to use Flex SDK 2.0.1 instead of the Flex SDK 3.x.x beta.  Very nice.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tip. The broken dock issue with Eclipse 3.2 has been driving me nuts as well. Good to know 3.3/Flex 3 can use the 2.0.1 SDK!