Comments on: Easy Flash Debugging on OSX.

By: Jim Jeffers

Jim Jeffers — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:18:36 +0000

I'll update my post to clarify the directions both of you posted here in the comments. Thanks for taking the time to post!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:09:20 +0000

@Jayer, screwed up the formatting, sorry. maybe this will do it: ## /Library/Application Support/Macromedia/mm.cfgErrorReportingEnable=1TraceOutputFileEnable=1

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:06:39 +0000

With the file that Andy Ferra suggested, it worked like a charm. Thanks so much!To flesh out Andy’s instruction a bit: create a file in /Library/Application Support/Macromedia/ called mm.cfg. In that file, place the following text, then reboot:## /Library/Application Support/Macromedia/mm.cfgErrorReportingEnable=1TraceOutputFileEnable=1

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:13:16 +0000

Now close the terminal window and open a new terminal.

Rather than opening a new Terminal window, it's possible to reload bash_profile using:. ~/.bash_profileNotice the '. ' at the beginning.Cheers!

By: Andy Ferra

Andy Ferra — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:04:16 +0000

Try creating this file and rebooting.
http://gist.github.com/35597

By: Jim Jeffers

Jim Jeffers — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:46:45 +0000

Yeah I can’t figure out how to get this working with Flash 10 yet. The flashlog doesn’t seem to be getting created anymore. I’ve heard others experiencing similar problems and have not pursued how to resolve this yet. I’m sure it’s pretty simple.

By: Andy Ferra

Andy Ferra — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:21:06 +0000

I like the way you’re doing it here Jim. I find the remote debugger tedious. Switching from browser to flash sucks.

By: Abdul

Abdul — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:44:28 +0000

I prefer it as better in the default debugger or maybe debugging the code myself after I get an error! But this isn’t too bad either!

By: Steven Haddox

Steven Haddox — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:19:29 +0000

Great post Jim. I’ve got your post section all setup. Unfortunately I can’t get Flash Debugger to output anything to my flashlog.txt for the life of me. I’ve triple checked the directory and triple checked that my mm.cfg has the proper values (I had to create it as it didn’t exist yet). Is there anything else that’s obvious I may be missing?

Thanks and keep up the great posts.

By: Jim Jeffers

Jim Jeffers — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:41:22 +0000

Thanks Donald – I will definitely have to give the debugger more thought. But this method still works very well for myself. It also allows me to easily diagnose something that has gone haywire on a live production site.