best way to debug?

[jonas]

Does anyone have any recommendations on debugging best practices? I
added and later removed the debug flag in mxmlc in my rakefile and now
don't get any trace statements sent to the shell.. I upgraded my gem
thinking I screwed something up, but even with a clean install I don't
see any output.

Figure now's as good a time as any to learn a better way to keep an
eye on things. Any tuts or leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[jonas]

I just found the fdb command... A moment of "ahhhh". I can see all my
debuggging from my logger (currently a trace wrapper)... A little
clunky, but it's working.

[Luke Bayes]

Hey Jonas,

I'm pretty sure that as3 swfs only include the trace statements if your debug flag is set to true. AsProject is reading those statements directly from the flash player log file, so if they don't get sent, we can't read them.

FDB is probably somewhat helpful, but like you, I find it's interface pretty clunky. I've been considering some kind of easier ruby/shell front end but haven't found the time for it and FCSH support is definitely higher on my personal priority list.

Please let us know as you find out more on this front.


Thanks,


Luke Bayes