FlashDevelop (Flex/AS3) and localized compiler messages.

Question

I am completely new to the whole FlashDevelop/Flash/etc toolchain, but wanted to do some experimenting. I installed FlashDevelop and Flex SDK on my laptop, and thinks worked out just fine, except for one thing: the compiler messages are localized!

Messages like "gebruik van een niet-gedefinieerde eigenschap" (Dutch.. sort of) are limiting my productivity. I don't recognize them because they look nothing like what I'm used to in any other programming environment, as a proper sentence they make even less sense than English error messages, and I certainly can't google them properly.

Now I've already seen there are a couple of xml files and java/mxmlc/fcsh/etc configs I can tweak, but nothing so far helped.

Please help me restore sanity and en_US/1033/etc! Thanks...

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Edit Setting my windows locale to English through the control panel, then restarting FlashDevelop, did result in English error messages from Flex. So hurray, I've got a usable workaround. I'd still like the two to be unrelated though, as a developer a fiddle with those settings all the time.

Answer 1

Goto Tools | Program Settings (press F10) and select Flash Develop from the left panel. Scroll down to the Misc heading - the last option is Selected Locale. If en_US is not there, then you have a problem - you might have to download the correct locale version again.

Answer 2

Modify jvm.config file located in the same folder as your mxmlc.exe by adding on java.args line the following option:

-Duser.language=en -Duser.region=US

Detailed explanation is here.

Answer 3

Setting my windows locale to English through the control panel, then restarting FlashDevelop, did result in English error messages from Flex.

I someone comes up with a better solution, I'll gladly accept that answer in stead of this one...