Waiting for a flash player to connect to the debugger

Question

Using Flex Builder 3:
I get this problem in every debugging run for the last few hours.
I used to use this too, but from time to time, and not every time you start debugging.
I found out that the flexible debugger uses a certain port 7935, but I can’t understand how to change it?

Answer 1

I remember this problem several times. Perhaps this is due to Flex Profiler (I accidentally clicked this while trying to start the debugger).

If you start Profiler and stop it too quickly, it will add something to the file in your home directory, which it should not.

Check /path/to/home/mm.cfg on your operating system (on mac, you can open it in textmate with mate ~/mm.cfg ). mm.cfg file contains debugging information in Flex

Then in this file make sure that this is the only content:

 ErrorReportingEnable=1 TraceOutputFileEnable=1 

If there is an additional line (I do not remember / did not find it, something like

 PreloadSwf=/Users/[username]/Documents/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/com.adobe.flash.profiler/ProfilerAgent.swf?host=localhost&port=9999 

), delete it.

Let me know if this fixes.

A spear

Answer 2

Also make sure you're not using Chrome. The Flash Player debugger (at the time of this writing) does not work in Chrome.

Answer 3

This worked for me: right-click on SWF, select "Open With ...", select "Other ...", select "Debug Player" and check the box "Always open with."
Mac OSX / FlashBuilder4

Answer 4

Right-click on the running flash application either in a browser or in a stand-alone flash player, and click on the debugger, if it is turned on, and change the switch from the local host to another computer and enter ip 127.0.0.1, and you can debug it. I think the problem may be from your host file.

Answer 5

Changing the default browser (chrome) on IE worked for me

Answer 6

Like danjp - it started with me after the automatic update of Flash Player. I just reinstalled the debug flash movies from the Adobe Flash Player download page , and everything works as expected.

Answer 7

Make sure that there is a swf file with the appropriate name in the bin-debug directory, and that this name matches the swf name specified in the index.template.html file for the project.

I mistakenly replaced the index.template.html file with a similar other project. When I tried to debug, I got the status "Waiting for a flash player to connect to the debugger ..." before the timeout.

Answer 8

For me, the problem was that Internet explorer opened and showed a certification problem, if I did not continue, the debugger will show this error. If I continued that is, no problems arise.