Help! ServiceCapture kills Flex Builder 2 Help!

The Help documents in Flex Builder 2 suddenly stopped working for me a few moments ago. Remembering that the Help panel uses the Internet Explorer control to display the HTML help pages, I thought I'd shut down ServiceCapture to see if it was the culprit and, lo and behold, the problems went away.

You see, by default, ServiceCapture modifies Internet Explorer's settings to use itself as a proxy so it can capture HTTP calls. If you want to be able to use Flex Builder 2's help and ServiceCapture together, you need to disable this feature. You can do so by unchecking the Modify IE settings on application start/stop option under the Proxy tab of Tools -> Settings.

The Help! ServiceCapture kills Flex Builder 2 Help! article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.

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1. October 20, 2006 3:59 pm

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1. 
   James Lyon
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   I haven’t tried it, but if the help docs were pulled up in FF would that also be a feasible workaround? Or does ServiceCapture still interfere?

   Windows > Preferences > General > Web Browser > ‘Use external Web browser’ :: Firefox
   Windows > Preferences > Help > ‘Use external browser’

   In my case, I only read the docs in an external browser because of the vast amount of memory that FB2 eats. Also, I’ve been wondering about the “Help Server” option and if a small-medium team without much experiene with flex would benefit from a dedicated. Running it locally shouldn’t be too demanding, right?

   July 1st, 2006 at 10:53 pm
   
   
2. 
   Aran
   2

   James.

   Setting the external browser to firefox fixes the issue for me (while using service capture).

   This had been bugging me for some time too !

   Cheers,

   Aran

   July 3rd, 2006 at 1:17 am