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How do I output trace/debug text from Flash?

Haven't you ever written a reall complex ActionScript, and couldn't understand why it refused to work on the remote site, but ran beautifully on your own computer? You can turn on the functionality of the trace() function, and output to a file.

Uninstall your flash player. Install the Flash Debug Player. (Find it under C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\Players\Debug. Use the AX version for MSIE, the other version for Firefox.)

Create mm.cfg in C:\Documents and Settings\username\mm.cfg. It should contain:

ErrorReportingEnable=1
TraceOutputFileEnable=1
MaxWarnings=0
TraceOutputFileName=C:\temp\flashlog.txt

Now whenever you output using trace(string), the string will go into c:\temp\flashlog.txt.

Above taken from http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2005/07/trace_from_the.php.

Last updated on 2006-08-21 14:00:00 -0800, by Shalom Craimer

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