# Having trouble with FlashDevelop - it's not compiling right

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 7, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-trouble-with-flashdevelop-its-not-compiling-right/256795 "2008-04-07T13:52:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-trouble-with-flashdevelop-its-not-compiling-right/256795/1 "2008-04-07T13:52:19Z")

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Alright, to start, I have flash 8 (i know it doesn’t have as3) installed on my laptop, and I thought it’d be great to get an as3 compiling program i can stick on my flash/thumb drive. so i installed it on my laptop, and i downloaded the flex 3 SDK on adobe. I put the contents in a folder in the flashdevelop folder.

I started by making a new AS3 project, and i made a class and I added the trace function i made a text box both reading as “Test.”

Here comes the problem, when i compile it opens flash player 8, and i am pretty sure you need flash player 9 to view AS3 files…

Is it because I have Flash 8 installed?