debug player issue

[KEY_NYC]

When debugging I am asked, "where is the debugger or host application running?"
I select Local Host, as I am not networked with another machine.
i get the error message, "A connection to the debugger or profiler could not be established by Adobe Flash Player 9"

I've tried uninstalling and installing the latest debug player versions.

What next?

[jpwrunyan]

I have the same issue. Can you describe what you are doing to cause this message to appear?
After I did 2 things I started getting the same message:
1) I installed the new Flex SDK
2) I imported a FlexLibrary project into my normal project and set the link type to "RSL" (the default is "Merged into code")

to get around the problem I set the link type of my imported project back to "Merged into code" and now I don't get that annoying (and apparently faulty) prompt. The problem is, there are several applications in the project I am developing so not being able to set the imported project as RSL is going to be a major drawback (each Application .swf file is going to contain identical redundant component class information).

I hope this helps. If your situation is not as that described above, please provide details as to what you are doing/how your project is set up/being compiled/etc.

[jpwrunyan]

I think I made a little more headway on this. When you configure a project to be imported as an RSL you need to set the path to the .swf that is acting as an RSL. Now how you correctly set this is beyond me. I am running it locally and it wants to know if the debugger is on local host or another URL.

[KEY_NYC]

My issue turned out to be firewall configuration. Specifically Norton's Internet Security. When originally setting up Flex, I'd been prompted to allow for a jre. or jav. connection? (I can't recall). I was originally opting for automatic configuration or something other than "always allow connections", which did the trick.

Good Luck.

[Harry240]

To KEY_NYC...
Can you be any more specific to the solution. I still can't get the de-bug version of Flash9 to install over or instead of Flash9 (non-debug). Thus, no trace for me when running or debugging apps.

[KEY_NYC · Accepted solution]

First, I've seen adobe suggest that you remove/uninstall all earlier flash player installations. I noticed multiple installs hanging around after all of my re-installing different versions, one of which gave me a bit of a hassle, but after removing an older player and an incorrect debug version I re-booted, went back in and uninstalled the stubborn player just fine. re-booted again, then installed the lastest debug version at.. http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
But for me, the ultimate hurdle was configuring my firewall. A step I stumbled across during a re-installation of Flex Builder after I'd rolled my system back.
I'm more of an actionscript designer than I am a developer so I'm learning along the way but from what I can gather, when I was being asked "where is the debugger or host application running?" ,It was asking because I had disabled the connection by blocking it with Nortons. All parts were in place, just mis-configured.
I believe that I was blocking the necessary connection from my local host to my player/IE7.
Since re-installing and choosing to allow connections I've been fine.

Hope that helps.

[Guest]

Hey guys, heads up on this. You may get the "where is the debugger or host application running?" prompt if you are including flash 8 swfs in your flex app, and you've chosen to "compress movie" in your publish settings. Don't know if this is a bug or by design but it's certainly happening, so just unclick and it should work.

[Guest]

whoops, my bad on the above post, it was actually a .swd (flash debugging) file that had been published from flash 8 that was causing the debugger prompt to appear. Make sure you don't have any .swd's in your flash directory...compression doesn't have anything to do with it.