RichEditableText textFlow attribute not updating properly

Was having an issue with the RET component as described in the adobe form:
textFlow (RichEditableText) not updating properly

I had created a popup window to display Bibliography references and it was not always updating when new text was injected into the textflow attribute. The view would refresh if I clicked on the text area. Based on the information in the adobe forum, I changed the initial component implementation:

<s:RichEditableText id="biblioInfo"
						textFlow="{TextConverter.importToFlow(pageInfo, TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT)}"
						width="100%"
						paragraphStartIndent="10"
						paragraphEndIndent="10"
						editable="false"
						selectable="true"
						/>

to the following:

<s:RichEditableText id="biblioInfo"
						textFlow="{updateFlow(pageInfo)}"
						width="100%"
						paragraphStartIndent="10"
						paragraphEndIndent="10"
						editable="false"
						selectable="true"/>

Where updateFlow was a function which was defined in the script section of the mxml file in the following manner:

private function updateFlow(clip:String):TextFlow {
				
		if (this.biblioInfo){
			this.biblioInfo.textFlow = null;
			this.biblioInfo.validateNow();
		}
				
		//  Converts html text into a TextFlow
		var flow:TextFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow(clip, TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);
				
		return flow;
	}

I found this approach solved the refresh problem for my RichEditableText component.

Flash Player Debugger 13 Installation Process

I did the following to successfully install the flash player debugger for Flash Builder 4.7:

1. Uninstalled flash player on windows using the directions here
2. Went to adobe debugger downloads site and downloaded plugins and standalone projectors
3. Manually transferred the standalone debugger exes into flash CS6 and flashbuilder 4.7 directory locations
4. Went to the flash builder project output folder and associated the swf files with the debug flash player

Step 3
Located the flash builder 4.7 player directory which is installed at the following location on my machine:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64 Bit)\player\win\13.0

Copied the downloaded flash player plugins for version 13.0 and also the debugger standalone projector to this location

Located the flash professional CS6 debugger player directory which is installed at the following location on my machine:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS6\Players\Debug

Copied the downloaded flash player debugger standalone projector to this location

Copied the downloaded flash player standalone projector to this location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS6\Players

Step 4
Finally had to manually associate flash builder generated swf file with the latest debugger player by doing the following:

1. Select a swf file
2. Right click and choose Open With
3. Browse to the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64 Bit)\player\win\13.0 directory
4. Select FlashPlayerDebugger.exe

After that, any error message that Flash builder can not find the debugger version of the flash player should be gone.

Flashbuilder 4.6 to 4.7 HTML Wrapper – playerProductInstall vs expressInstall

We had created a custom template file called ${application}${build_suffix}.template.php (instead of html template) which we used to autogenerate our output webpage.

When I upgraded from Flashbuilder 4.6 to Flashbuilder 4.7. I noticed that the xiSwfUrlStr substitution value changed from playerProductInstall to expressInstall.

Template line was:
var xiSwfUrlStr = “${expressInstallSwf}”;

Output from 4.6
php file contained line:
var xiSwfUrlStr = “playerProductInstall.swf”;
Flashbuilder also output to bin directory:
playerProductInstall.swf

Output from 4.7
php file contained line:
var xiSwfUrlStr = “expressInstallSwf”;
Flashbuilder also output to bin directory:
expressInstall.swf

Flashbuilder 4.6 has a page on html templates which discusses the substitution
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf663fe-7fff.html#WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7ba5

Here is mention of the change on the apache flex developement site:
http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/Flash-Builder-4-6-Apache-Flex-4-11-0-and-expressInstall-swf-td34125.html

Here is swfobject google code location:
https://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation

Otherwise I could not find a reference to this change on the adobe site.