FDT – Could not connect to the player, will try to connect…
Recently I have been getting this message in FDT when I tried to use the debug option. I’m on Windows 7 using FDT 4. I tried all the usual suspects, uninstalled Flash Player, re-installed FDT, tried Flash incubator and 10.1 debug builds. Nothing. I knew debug worked because FlashBug was working fine in Firefox, displaying traces. What could be going on?
I scoured the internet for a solution and raised a ticket with PowerFlasher. Nothing was helping, I went through their help and it didn’t solve it.
Messing around though I found a menu in the Flash debug player that I’d never touched before. Right click on an instance of Flash Player, be it in the browser or standalone and select ‘debugger’. It opens a window requesting where the debugger or host application should be running, with ‘localhost’ selected. I changed this to ‘other machine’ and 127.0.0.1 as I had recently installed WAMP on my laptop and thought the word ‘localhost’ may be conflicting…
HUZZAH!
Now it’s back working again. Hope this helps someone else like it did me!
4 Responses to “FDT – Could not connect to the player, will try to connect…”
I’ve run into the same exact issue and had been looking for an answer to this for the past few days. Your post is the first I’ve read that addresses this. I tried the solve in the post, but it didn’t work out for me.
I ended up following a post from a different blog (http://blog.juanbonfante.com/?p=267) to start debugging from the browser using FDT and I don’t seem to be getting that error anymore. My swfs are now opening in the window, but that doesn’t seem so bad.
I don’t remember seeing that “Debugger” option in previous versions of flash, but maybe I’ve just never noticed it.
Jasper and Harry,
Thanks for sharing your learnings with the rest of the FDT devs.
Do you mind entering your findings also on http://bugs.powerflasher.com
This way you get in direct dialog with the team and get notified on any changes.
Thank you again!
Certainly – done.
I had the same problem occur with FDT 4 in Mac OS X 10.6.7.
I recall installing Firefox 4 which prompted installation of the latest version of the flash player, but was not the debug version, so FDT 4 was unable to establish a connection to the player…
So I downloaded the latest Flash Player Debugger, closed all applications, and installed it… then made a change in FDT 4 Preferences:
FDT 4 > Preferences > FDT > Tools > Flash
and corrected the paths to Flash IDE, Flash Player (Debug version),
and Flash ASO Directory… these were all blank in my case.
Now it’s successfully connecting again…
[Info] Connection to player established.
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