Sorry, please ignore the prior posting as it went before I had a
chance to edit it clearly. This is a very depressing problem to run
into as I thought I was moving on nicely with learning Flex. Also,
I'm not entirely sure how to describe what is going on, which makes
finding a solution rather overwhelming difficult as I cannot even find
out where the problems exist. Is the problem related to how I setup
Flex, how the workspace is defined, how the file is accessed?
I ran into a very confusing problem recently that I discovered when I
was trying to test out a dataGrid that was to be populated by an xml
file. I was following a training video on the site Lynda.com It ran
fine on the video but when I tried that out it said that there was a
problem related to accessing the dataSource which was a very simple
xml file with one top level container element and one repeating element.
Since I was using the same exercise files that the instructor was
using, I was quite stumped as to why this wasn't working on my system.
In fact, the instructor was using a Windows Vista system as well as I
am. So, I tried looking at the xml file properties from within Flex
Builder by right-clicking. I tried removing the check box for Archive
file and the one for Read Only. That didn't help at all, and I
continued to get the errors. I was expected to get a 2 column
display. I tried a number of different toggles of the
Properties of the xml file to see if anything would help.
I did notice that when I selected Run from within
Flex, that the browser window that comes up did not have a direct path
like this: c:\flexapps\workspace\demoapp\bin-debug\myappfile.html
Instead I was seeing file:///c:/etc. etc. with more characters..
.something you might see if editing a file in DW or another program
where the site is not defined.
Anyway, I feel stumped with all this. Please help. If I can pass any
files or information to help anyone that would help me, please let me
know and I'll do that so that we can get this figured out. I'm not
sure how this would be done, but I am open to suggestions,
Thanks,
Bruce
