Factum Vicesimus Quartus » builder http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog Exploring web x.0, innovation and RIA techniques Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:27:19 +0000 en hourly 1 Flex Builder 3 thinks it’s Flex Builder 2?! http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2008/03/flex-builder-3-thinks-its-flex-builder-2/ http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2008/03/flex-builder-3-thinks-its-flex-builder-2/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:05:35 +0000 Wietse Veenstra http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2008/03/14/flex-builder-3-thinks-its-flex-builder-2/ Last week I requested a free student license for Flex Builder 3 from Adobe, and this week I found it in my mailbox. After downloading the Flex Builder 3 trail version from the Adobe website and applying my license key to it, it said I now have the Education version. But the strange thing is that when I open the ‘About Adobe Flex Builder 3…’ window, it tells me I have Flex Builder 2 and then freezes the entire application (see screen shot below)! All of the menu buttons in the top bar are gone and the application stops responding to anything. I had to restart Flex Builder in order to continue my work.

After installing the trail version of Flex Builder 3 on my Windows XP machine this afternoon I checked the same window. At first I didn’t apply my license key to it so it was still in trail mode. No strange things, just the normal black ‘About Adobe Flex Builder 3′ window. But after applying the student license key the window was corrupted again! The only difference between the Windows and OS-X version was that on the Windows machine it didn’t completely crash my Flex Builder, and I was able to return to the development screen by clicking the corrupted window.

Apparently there is a little bug in the educational license system in Flex Builder 3.


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]]> http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2008/03/flex-builder-3-thinks-its-flex-builder-2/feed/ 8 Tuning Flex Builder 2 and Eclipse performance http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2007/04/tuning-flex-builder-2-and-eclipse-performance/ http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/2007/04/tuning-flex-builder-2-and-eclipse-performance/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:37:40 +0000 Wietse Veenstra http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/blog/?p=63 The last few weeks my Flex Builder is becoming slower and slower. Therefore I started looking for the reasons why this happens and searched for some performance tuning tips for Flex Builder 2 and Eclipse. I found some really useful tips which increased performance quite nice.

Flex Boost

- Close the projects your not currently working on.
When you compile a project you are working on, Flex Builder checks all other projects that are open to see if compiling is required. By closing the projects you’re not currently working on, Flex will not check them which saves you quite some build time.

- Disable code folding.
By disabling this feature, you will gain some more speed.

- Install the latest Java Runtime Environment.
Update the JRE via the Java website.

- Install Memory Monitor and Status Memory Monitor from Kyrsoft.
By installing these Eclipse plugins, you gain complete control over the memory garbage of Eclipse. Install them via Help > Software Updates > Find and install – Search for new features to install and choose a new remote site. Enter http://www.kyrsoft.com/updates/ as the URL.

- Increase min/max amount of memory for Eclipse’s startup.
Eclipse standard has a startup memory heap minimum of 40M and a maximum of 256M. By increasing these settings Eclipse will startup faster. Change these settings only if you have sufficient memory. To change them, edit the flexbuilder.ini/eclipse.ini file. The settings you should change are -Xms40m and -Xmx256m.

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