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The location of the license.properties file is operating system-dependent. It is located in the following directories:

Edit the flex-config.xml file

You can edit your config.xml file to add a license key. You add it to the <licenses> child tag of the <flex-

config>

tag, as the following example shows:

<flex-config>

<product>flexbuilder3</product>

<serial-number>0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000</serial-number>

</license>

</licenses>

...

</flex-config>

Use the license command-line compiler option

You can pass your license key as an option to the mxmlc and compc command-line compilers. To do this, you use

the

license option, and pass it a product name and the key. The product name must be "flexbuilder3". The

following example shows how to do this:

mxmlc -license=flexbuilder3,00000000000000000000 MyApp.mxml

In Flex Builder, you can pass the license key with the license compiler option by adding it to the Additional

Compiler Arguments field in the Flex Compiler properties panel.

Use the Configuration.setLicense() method

If you are using the Flex compiler API to build your Flex applications, you can call the Configuration class’s

setLicense() method. For more information, see the documentation included with the compiler API.

Root variables

For Flex SDK, the flex_install_dir variable is the top-level directory where you installed the SDK. Under this

directory are the bin, frameworks, lib, and samples directories. The flex_app_root directory is the top level

location for many files.

Operating System Location

Windows XP C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Flex\license.properties

Windows Vista C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Flex\license.properties

Mac OSX /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flex/license.properties

Linux ~/.adobe/Flex/license.properties