Flex Stuff by Gilles Guillemin

When you compile and run a project with Flash Catalyst beta 1, it uses your default browser. In my case, it is Firefox, but for some reason I needed it to use Safari instead. But rather than changing my system default settings I would rather change Catalyst preferences, the way you do with Flex / Flash Builder. Both software are based on the Eclipse Platform so it shouldn’t be too difficult. Except that even if the Preferences menu is indeed there…

… it doesn’t lead to anything. You can try and select it as many times as you want, you will never get the preferences window (at least on my machine, but pleaaase, don’t tell me it’s due to my configuration, that it works fine elsewhere and this post is just pointless ).

But of course there’s a way, through the backdoor, or I wouldn’t be here writing this article.

So just follow these steps (click on the images to get the details):

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="Step 2: The other Preferences menu"][/caption][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="Step 4: Remove the filter"][/caption]See? Not so difficult. Now you obviously can’t change all the usual settings. Or you can sometimes change them but it doesn’t seem to have any effect. But some others behave as expected, and you can now change the default Browser to Safari for example…

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