Flash CS5 crashes on OSX Lion while compiling !

I found a way to get it working from within the Flash IDE (no command-line hell for me! Yeah!) ;-)

(it turned out that I DID have a multiple line of xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.0" in my descriptor-file actually, and that's the reason flash gives a number 100 error).

What I did to work around it was the following:

- Delete the descriptor-file with the double entry in it (or remove the double entry with text-editor)

- Open flash and edit the iPhone iOS settings.

- Click "OKAY" in the iOS settings window (Don't publish from here, flash will save the descriptor file the wrong way and gives you an error after all).

- Go back to text-editor and remove the double entry of "xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.0" again.

- You now have a correct descriptor file.

- Go back to flash and select "publish"  from the file menu (DON'T open the iPhone iOS Settings at this point, it will corrupt your descriptor-file again)

- Flash will publish the file correctly and make an .ipa file as it should.

It seems the problem is somewhere within the iPhone iOS settings. Once it saves the descriptor-file it puts a double xmlns-attribute in it.

@amish: do you think a Flash CS5-update will be possible to fix this? And can you guys at Adobe recreate the error? Thanx a lot by the way for helping out here.

@colin and the other posters: you guys are great! Thanks for all the help and quick responses. This really is a great forum full of dedicated people.

I still have the same issues.

No double entry in the xml-file for me, so that solution doesn't work here, I'm affraid.

I actually created a dualboot-partition on my mac, installed Snow Leopard and Flash CS5 and compile my files from Snow Leopard.

Not the best way of working (have to restart all the time), but at least it works and I can update my app again.

Is anyone from Adobe able to recreate this Flash CS5 <> OSX Lion problem?

Will there be a fix from Adobe for this?

Hi,

I have the same issue. Has anybody found out what exactly in the descriptor file does not work? Here's what I receive when I compile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.0" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.0">

    <id>ch.netoid.deco</id>

    <version>1.0</version>

    <filename>deco</filename>

    <description></description>

    <!-- To localize the description, use the following format for the description element.

<description>

<text xml:lang="en">English App description goes here</text>

<text xml:lang="fr">French App description goes here</text>

<text xml:lang="ja">Japanese App description goes here</text>

</description>

-->

    <name>deco</name>

    <!-- To localize the name, use the following format for the name element.

<name>

<text xml:lang="en">English App name goes here</text>

<text xml:lang="fr">French App name goes here</text>

<text xml:lang="ja">Japanese App name goes here</text>

</name>

-->

    <copyright></copyright>

    <initialWindow>

        <content>deco.swf</content>

        <systemChrome>standard</systemChrome>

        <transparent>false</transparent>

        <visible>true</visible>

        <fullScreen>true</fullScreen>

        <autoOrients>false</autoOrients>

        <aspectRatio>portrait</aspectRatio>

        <renderMode>auto</renderMode>

    </initialWindow>

    <customUpdateUI>false</customUpdateUI>

    <allowBrowserInvocation>false</allowBrowserInvocation>

    <icon></icon>

<iPhone><InfoAdditions><![CDATA[<key>UIDeviceFamily</key><array><string>1</string></array>]]></InfoAdditions></iPhone></application>

When I try to publish, I also receive error 100.

Cheers!

Yeah, I recreated the problem Amortiz has.

Furthermore, I tried another thing:

- Deleted the descriptor file.

- Opened CS5 and in iOS publish settings recreated everything. (including password and 'remember password for this session')

- Clicked OK > a new descriptor file is created. No errors.

- Then, when I publish through the file menu, flash gave me an error saying: error 100: Application descriptor cannot be parsed.

- This is the first time I see flash giving me an error instead of crashing on me.

The problem with publishing through the file menu is that while publishing, Flash opens up the iOS publish setting for me because it needs my password. I guess the password isn't stored in the descriptor-file, so we can't publish without going into the iOS settings.

Are you using AIR 2.6 or 2.7?

As Colin suggested, have you tried packaging from the command line?

The command to use is:

<Path to AIR sdk>/bin/adt -package -target ipa-app-store -storetype pkcs12 -keystore ( my cert ) -storepass ( password ) -provisioning-profile ( my profile ) result.ipa myapp-app.xml myapp.swf

Also, is your java correctly installed on the machine? What does java -version on the terminal show you?

You can also refer to the following threads:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3817438#3817438

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3813589#3813589

Thanks,

Amish.

Does it succeed if you compile it using the command line?