SourceMate can be downloaded and installed via Eclipse’s standard update mechanism.


The 30 Day Free Trial is automatically activated unless you provide a valid serial number.

Requirements

SourceMate is compatible with official release of Adobe Flash Builder 4. SourceMate will not work correctly with Adobe Flash Builder 4 Beta2 or Flex Builder 3.

Administrator Rights Required

Adobe has made modifications to Eclipse’s update mechanism so that administrator rights are required to install additional plugins. If you’re using the Flash Builder standalone, you’ll need to run Flash Builder with administrator rights during the installation.

On Windows, a “Run As Administrator” option is available after right-clicking on the Flash Builder executable.

Installation

Open the Software Install dialog by clicking on the following menus: Help > Install New Software

Once in the Install dialog, enter the following URL in the ‘Work with’ field:

http://updates.elementriver.com/sourcemate/v1

Then press Enter (clicking Add is unnecessary).

Follow the remaining dialogs to complete the installation.

No Internet Access?

If you’re at a work site that does not allow internet access, you download the following package:
sourcemate_1.1.0.v07152010.zip

Extract the contents of the zip to a local directory. Use this local directory in place of the remote URL in the Software Install dialog.

Get Notified of Updates

We often post new updates of SourceMate with bug fixes and small enhancements. Flash Builder (Eclipse) offers a convenient feature to notify you when new updates are available. Then its only a few clicks and a few seconds before you can have the latest version of SourceMate installed.

To setup the automatic notification, go to the Preferences dialog, then click on Install/Update -> Automatic Updates. In that preference page, check the setting “Automatically find new updates and notify me” and set any of the remaining options to your personal preferences.

Unfortunately, due to modifications made by Adobe, users running Flash Builder standalone must run Flash Builder as an administrator to get update notifications. Users of Eclipse using the Flash Builder plugin do not require the same privileges.