FDS Test Drive - help with sample apps

[SPGAnne]

I'm trying to use the FDS 30 Minute TestDrive sample apps
inside

Flex Builder. I downloaded the test drive and all the samples
work

just dandy fine, and I can view the source etc. So I wanted
to load

some of the sample apps into Flex Builder so that I could
modify and

play with them with the debugger so as to learn more.



I've tried the following:

create New Project - use Flex Data Services/compile app
locally

Root Folder: C:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT

Root URL:
http://localhost:8600/ROOT.
When I click Finish, I get the

following 3 errors in the Output panel:



unable to load SWC fds.swc: multiple points

unable to load SWC fds.swc: multiple points

The definition of base class Locale was not found

Could not resolve<mx:Application> to a component
implementaion



I am on Flex 2.0.143459.



I've verified that fds.swc is indeed in the

C:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\flex\libs folder.

I don't know what the other messages mean or what to do.



I then stubbornly unzipped one of the sample apps into the

FlexBuilder project folder (which I named FDS TestDrive
Samples) and

tried to run it anyway to see if I could get more info. I
then get

a browser window with the following additional errors:

type Status report

message /ROOT/FDS%20TestDrive%20Samples/Chat.html

description The requested resource (/ROOT/FDS%20TestDrive%

20Samples/Chat.html) is not available.



So I guess one problem is that it is not making an html
document.

But I don't know how to correct that.



I have no idea what to do. Any help would be GREATLY
appreciated.

[SPGAnne · Accepted solution]

Someone helped me offlist with this after I got frustrated
that this forum is essentially dead. But in case anyone else needs
this info, I thought I'd post. First you need to be on Flex version
2.0.155577. So I had to redownload all of Flex, uninstall my older
version, install the new version. Then I did the following

to create the Flex Builder project for the dashboard sample
app:



File - > New -> Flex Project

Select Flex Data Services

Select Compile application locally

Click Next

Deselect "Use default local Flex Data Services Location"

Click Browse... and open c:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT

Root URL:
http://localhost:8600/

Context root: /

Click Next

Project name: <Whatever you want to name it>;

Deselect "Use default location"

Folder: c:\fds-tomcat\webapps\ROOT\dashboard

Click Next

Main application file: dashboard.mxml

Click Finish





The Context root was really key. Also, to get my old projects
back into Flex, I used file:import and then had to do a little
additional fiddling with some of the projects' properties.



Too bad this Forum is so dead. I've tried to get feedback to
Adobe about that concern, but so far it hasn't helped. sigh