FlashDevelop stuck connecting to debugger, help!

[Tyler]

Hello and thanks for trying to help!

As the title says Flash Develop won't get past "Waiting for Flash Player to Connect to Debugger". It just tries for a few minutes and hangs. I have the path for the flash debugger set to the right flash debugger so that couldn't be the issue. What am I doing wrong? 

Again, thanks for any help you can offer!

[Gama11]

This is not really a flixel issue, you might have more luck elsewhere (FD forums, etc). Does any of this help?

[Jimmy JimJim]

A few things to check:

1) Make sure you have "Debug" selected in the dropdown next to the blue arrow and "Flash" selected as your target next to it. 

2) Go to "Tools > Install Software" and tick "Standalone debug flash player". Even if you downloaded it before manually I'd recommend doing it through here so flash develop notices it.

3) Go to "Tools > Program Settings > Flash Viewer" and make sure the external player path is not empty. It should be updated once you do the item above.

4) Go to "Debug > Start Remote Session", then while still in flash develop double click the swf file in "Export/flash/bin".

5) Right click the project then go to properties, then "Compiler Options" and make sure "Enable Debugger" is set to true.

That all being said, I can get the debugger to work on my desktop but I never got it working on my laptop. I think it's because I didn't setup the java paths correctly when installing Lime or something. Hopefully you have more luck!

[Tyler]

Yeah I just messed with my java paths as well, that's probably the cause. But before that there was an issue specifically with where java was installed. Seems like there is always something! I'll try and uninstall everything and get a fresh install going. Thanks for the detailed reply man!

On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 6:38:15 PM UTC-4, Jimmy JimJim wrote: > A few things to check: > > > 1) Make sure you have "Debug" selected in the dropdown next to the blue arrow and "Flash" selected as your target next to it.  > 2) Go to "Tools > Install Software" and tick "Standalone debug flash player". Even if you downloaded it before manually I'd recommend doing it through here so flash develop notices it. > 3) Go to "Tools > Program Settings > Flash Viewer" and make sure the external player path is not empty. It should be updated once you do the item above. > 4) Go to "Debug > Start Remote Session", then while still in flash develop double click the swf file in "Export/flash/bin". > 5) Right click the project then go to properties, then "Compiler Options" and make sure "Enable Debugger" is set to true. > > > That all being said, I can get the debugger to work on my desktop but I never got it working on my laptop. I think it's because I didn't setup the java paths correctly when installing Lime or something. Hopefully you have more luck! Yeah

[Sam Bellman]

If it's a java issue try looking in C:\Users\yourUserName\AppData\Local\FlashDevelop\Apps\flexsdk\4.6.0\bin for a file called jvm.config (where 4.6.0 is the flexsdk you're using). Open that up and there should be a line that starts java.home=. Point it at where your java runtime is installed - mine is java.home=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7

[PTR]

Setup the environment variables properly:

New variable: http://puu.sh/iJkTe/e90084f6e2.png (JAVA_HOME     C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7)

Add to PATH variable: http://puu.sh/iJkXJ/2cf098b1ea.png   (C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin;)

I have downloaded the latest version, and this is how to setup that one's environment variables. After these, restart the computer.

[Jesse Abram]

I've had this happen just from being out of memory, things like that -

I'm a little late to the party here, but I'd say do a restart before messing with any paths, etc. and see if it fixes.

[Tyler]

You mean reset my computer? It's been a while, I've done that multiple times. Got nothing :/