title: How to run Flex samples
body: <p>Well, this is embarrassing. I want to get into Flex development but I'm having problems even opening up sample Flex projects! (I'm running on Snow Leopard and trying to use Flash Builder 4)</p>
  
  <p>Here are the projects that I was looking at: <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/samples.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/samples.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I downloaded a sample project.. but couldn't find anything to open! There was an <code>mxml</code> file that OS X just wasn't going to let me open. I had to change the extension to <code>xml</code> to see the contents of the file.</p>
  
  <p>I did finally manage to get the project open and loaded. I created a new Flex project in Flash Builder 4, added a <code>swc</code> file to my <code>libs</code> directory, and replaced the content of the <code>mxml</code> and <code>xml</code> files with what I downloaded. That compiled fine and I was able to run the project.</p>
  
  <p>Surely, there's an easier way of opening sample projects... right? But, doing a bit of searching, I found <a href="http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-run-adobe-flex-project-from-google-code-255448/" rel="nofollow">this tutorial</a>... and he basically did the same thing I did. I hate to whine, but having to do all this to open a sample project..?</p>
  
  <p>Hopefully someone here will tell me there's a friendlier, easier way of doing this! Thanks!</p>