The Best Utility for switching between Flash Player versions on OS X
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Ok so “Best” may be a little over stated but this really works well for me.
For around a week now I have been wanting to dig into developing Flash Player 10 applications but the problem with this is there is no debugger version of the Flash Player 10 beta. This really sux if you are a Flex or Flash developer that really needs the debugger when building applications.
On top of there not being a debugger there is just no good way to test for different versions of the Flash Player without uninstalling one version and the installing another. That is a really pain in the ass for sure and personally so frustrating that I don’t bother testing other versions of the player at all.
I tried a couple of solutions that I found by doing some Google searching on the matter. The first is Mike Chambers solution. On Mike’s blog he actually came up with a bash script that you could run from terminal. I followed the steps but I used the latest versions of Flash Player as Mikes post was how to switch between Flash Player 8 and 8.5. The solution I thought would work but I never could get it to work without running into some small issue.
Next I found the FireFox plug-in called Flash Switcher. For a wile there was only a version that worked for Windows but they finally did a version for OS X, or at least that is what it says. I say that several people where able to get it to work. I kept getting a Java Script Error when trying to run it on mine.
Here is my solution. I developed a workf low that I am calling FlashSwitcher X. This solution is basically just an easier implementation of Mike Chambers work around but I set up some Automator Scripts to get the job done.
Please provide feedback. I would really like to know if any of you have success with this tool or if you run into any issues and if you are able to tweek and make this even better.
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