I am writing this post becouse I am very “angry” and I need to say something before I explode. This error has “eat” three hours of my time (I am very angry when I lose my time with useless things).
All starts with a fresh OS. After I have install Adobe Flex Builder and import some of my projects I had try to run one project in a stand alone Flash Player BUT (big buttt) I have receive :
“Flex Builder Cannot Locate the Required Version of Flash Player” .
This was not my first time when I have receive this error so I had try to fix this, the simplest way I had know, access http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html download Flash Player 10 ActiveX control content debugger and reinstall Flash Player, BUT (again big buttt) no result the Flex Builder still bother me with : ”Flex Builder Cannot Locate the Required Version of Flash Player” so I call my best friend “Google” asking him about the error.
After at least a hour of searching and reading all I have found was how to fix this error for Firefox:
“Firefox was looking for the npswf32.dll in the ProgramFiles/Mozilla Fireforx/plugins directory yet Macromedia installed it in the window/system32/macromed/flash directory.”
some trash links and for a Stand Alone Flash Player to uninstall Flash Player and install the Debug version of Flash Player from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html BUT no solution for me, nothing to work.
I tried to reinstall the Adobe Flex Builder, no luck, tried to install Flex Builder as a Eclipse plugin, no luck, no luck, no luck …… So if you are “HERE” when you thing nothing can help maybe the solution I will present next will help you.
I have found this trying to open a “.swf” file and see that no default program was set to open files with .swf extension, the next thing I have done was download the Download the Adobe Flash Player 10 Update for Windows and Macintosh extract the files and copy the “Player\Debug\FlashPlayer.exe” for example in “C:\”. After that I have select a .swf file and open it with “C:\FlashPlayer.exe” making this the default program to open “.swf” files.
After this simple action, BINGO no BUT no error in Flex Builde “all good to go”. I hope this can help you spare some time.