Comments on: Log, trace, log, release, log?

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:28:00 +0000

Have you ever tried FlashDevelop? It has nothing to envy to FlashBuilder or FDT, it is a really professional IDE. Just wish it was on Mac too.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:01:55 +0000

Excellent article. But for what it’s worth, with Flash Builder 4 now officially released to market, I recommend anyone from amatuer to serious about Adobe Flash/AIR development to shell out the dollars for the Premium IDE. Adobe have really rounded it all out with the profiling side of things and the future looks bright.

By: Tahir Ahmed

Tahir Ahmed — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:04:58 +0000

This is indeed a handy little component.

By: Chris Foster

Chris Foster — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:34:53 +0000

Flash Tracer (since it also points to the flashlog.txt file) will happily trace output from a SWF running in IE. Granted, you still need to launch FlashTracer, but I usually run it in a separate window (click the icon next to the settings icon at bottom right) and close Firefox if I’m testing in IE.

It also lets me setup filters to colour output, so I can have all my ‘INFO: blah’ traces in green, ‘ALERT: blah’ traces in orange and ‘ERROR: blah’ traces in red.

Does the FD tool filter like that?

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:40:13 +0000

Missed your note about ‘using any browser’. I have found that if you have the debugger version installed in IE, flash tracer in Firefox would still pick up the logs… But it has been awhile since i used a pc.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:28:53 +0000

I second the Flash Tracer idea.

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:06:08 +0000

@ pete Ya I knew about this but what I found nice is that the logger was already in the tool that I use, no installation required plus can use the browser that I want

By: pete

pete — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:07:06 +0000

or you could just use flash tracer (firefox plugin)
http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2006/10/post_1.php

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:59:05 +0000

I completely missed this. Thanks for posting

There’s a 3rd party FD plug-in for adding trace statements to your code. It’s very handy:

http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=1128

By: Adobe Flex Tutorial

Adobe Flex Tutorial — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:20:45 +0000

This is a nice FlashDevelop feature, really useful. i personally use (indirectly) trace() instructions and i prefer using Notepad++ to have a look at my debugging instructions while not in Flex Builder.
It’s a simple but powerful text editor and it checks if the file was updated on the disk. It’s lightweight and you won’t need to open FD.
If you can understand French, here is an article i wrote about it:
http://www.flex-tutorial.fr/2010/02/15/flex-tips-afficher-facilement-les-trace-de-son-application-sans-passer-par-flex-builder-avec-notepad/

Fabien
http://www.flex-tutorial.fr