FDT 5 fresh install Could not connect to the player

I am new to FDT and I would like to be able to move my project over to FDT when I figure out how to use it but I have just downloaded the latest version 5 today and followed instructions as provided on website but the result is.

[Info] Could not connect to the player, will try to connect for the next 72000 ms [Info] Listening to port 7935.

[Info] Could not connect to the player, will try to connect for the next 64000 ms [Info] Listening to port 7935.

[Info] Could not connect to the player, will try to connect for the next 56000 ms [Info] Listening to port 7935.

....until

[Info] Could not connect to the player, debug session stopped. Maybe you do not have the Debug Flash Player installed.

I have searched all I can through google and attempted everything I could find but unfortunately no luck.

I am using win7/64 with latest most recent version of fdt 5 as of today with latest flash player debugger. I am really not sure how to proceed at this point so I would appreciate advice from anyone else who is using version 5 and can point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

Solution

When using a 64 bit version of FDT 5, the external SWF-Viewer is part of FDT and therefor 64 bit instance as well. Under Windows it rely on the Flash Player Version that is installed for Internet Explorer. Unfortunately the Flash Debug Player is only available as a 32 bit version which cause that the external SWF Viewer is just a normal flash player instance to which FDT could obviously not connect to. In order to debug your applications you have the following options:

Use the standalone Flash Debug Player as launcher
Use an external Browser. You can set up which browser to use in the Preferences > General > Web Browser
When you use FDT 5.5: The team has implemented a solution for windows 64 bit users to launch the external swf viewer as an 32 bit instance so that it is able to utilize the flash debug player. Therefor you need to point FDT 5.5 to a 32 java installation under Preferences > FDT > Tools > Java 32. This option is only available to Windows 64 bit users.