Is Flash CS4 crashing when you try to open an FLA? Are you pulling out your hair wondering why Flex 3 doesn’t auto complete BitmapData? Adobe Updater may be the answer.

Flash CS4 10.0.2

One of my co-workers called me over to troubleshoot when a folder full of FLAs were crashing Flash CS4 every time he tried to open them. He had already tried a fresh install of the software and had all of the necessary fonts. So why did it crash? Well it turns out that Flash CS4 had a bug where it would crash when embedded fonts are used.

“FLA crash on open when fonts loaded.” -Glavan on Flash (detailed list of what was fixed)

After running Adobe Updater everything worked great!

Flex Builder 3.0.2

How about Flex Builder? I recently installed Windows 7 with a fresh copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional. Unfortunately I pulled the install from one of my external hard drives and it was version 3.0.1 rather than 3.0.2. A major bug with version 3.0.1 using SDK 3.3 and higher is that BitmapData does not auto complete. After trying multiple versions of the SDK I finally found the bug report on Adobe Bugs citing that the problem was fixed in version 3.0.2.

After running Adobe Updater everything worked great!

See the common theme here? I tend to disable most of the automatic software updates since they are usually very annoying. After my experiences over the past week I will be checking Adobe Updater much more frequently! Always update after a fresh install.

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