How to make components in Flash CS4 appear again
Posted on 4th February 2009 in Developer tools, Flash | 8 Comments »
If you run English Flash CS4 on a non-English system you might have noticed that Flash components installed with Adobe Extension Manager don’t turn up in Components panel anymore. It’s another bug vs feature situation by Adobe.
The thing is Extension Manager pushes all extensions to the language-specific folder given the system settings. Flash on the other hand seeks for the components by its own settings and there you have it.
To fix this anomaly you’ve got to get Extensions hooked up to Flash:
- Shut down both, Flash and Extension Manager
- Start Flash
- In Flash go to the menu Help > Manage Extensions…
- Extension Manager starts up
- Tick the checkboxes of the Extensions you need to be there in Flash
- Quit Extension Manager and restart Flash
This is tested to work on Mac OS and is reported to work on Windows as well.
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I’m using a English version both on my OS and Flash and some of my components are still not showing up. They show up under my local application folder (…Local SettingsApplication DataAdobeFlash CS4enConfigurationComponents..) but not when I open up Flash CS4.
PS – I have never used another language, ever, only English.
Anyone?
This worked out on a Mac. Since I presume you are on Windows, you may want to try out the following:
I hope it fixes the case for you.
Thank you very much man!!!
It works…I will be able to put these news components to the test!
God bless you…Jesus bless you too
thanks, it worked perfectly
I also noticed some of my extensions weren’t showing up in Flash CS4, but realised that it was only the case when I had opened a new Flash document from one of Flash’s templates.
I opened File > New (regular Flash doc) and all extensions appeared. Opened another based on a template and only some of them did. Flash being a little bit too clever on our behalf I think….
Hope this helps someone.
Thanks it really worked!!! you saved a lot time!!…
Here is what I did if someone out there didn’t understand…
- Installed extensions with Extension Manager
- closed EM
- open Flash CS4
- Go to New–>Actionscript 3.0
- Go to Help–>Manage Extensions…
- Put a check on the checkbox of my extension
- Restart Flash CS4
- Go to Components Panel
- Enjoy!
Thank you ! its work for me (windows 7)
You nailed it!, just a small clarification to the last comment:
When you close Flash CS4, you leave the Extension Manager CS4 Open, then you restart Flash CS4 with the Extension Manager OPENED already.
Thank you very much!