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Re: NEED HELP with mtasc trace option

by Joeri van Oostveen :: Rate this Message:

I'm using Firebug too for debugging, with a custom trace like this one (stripped a little because there was some unused code in when I tried to do some more with it, but never finished it).

You can get a lot more out of it, but I have never spent more time in it and mapped all console.error etc.

It does not include a variable dump or give a recursive trace of object etc, but it certainly can be useful.

I use ant to build the projects, therein the following piece is added for using a custom trace (The class file is stored in the top package, not nested in directories). The second 'CustomTrace' after CustomTrace.trace is used to include the class in the swf.

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;

class CustomTrace

{

public function CustomTrace()

{

}

public static function trace(message:String, classMethod:String, file:String, line:Number):Void

{

var d:Date = new Date();

var timestamp:String = "[" + formatDate(d.getHours().toString(), 2) + ":" + formatDate(d.getMinutes().toString(), 2) + ":" + formatDate(d.getSeconds().toString(), 2) + "]";

var trace_message:String = "";

trace_message += timestamp + ": ";

trace_message += "" + classMethod + " ";

trace_message += "" + message + "";

ExternalInterface.call("console.log", trace_message);

}

private static function formatDate(dateString:String, len:Number):Object

{

dateString = "000000" + dateString;

dateString = dateString.substr(dateString.length - len, len);

return dateString;

}

Hope this helps.

- Joeri

On Feb 4, 2008 1:26 PM, Selene Platt <selene@...> wrote:

Hello,

I am using mtasc as an actionscript 2.0 compiler and want to add the -trace
option. However, I'm not sure how to implement my own trace function. The
example given on the web ( http://www.mtasc.org/#trace ) doesn't exactly
show where MyClass.myTrace() is defined and what it looks like. Could
someone provide an example assuming I have the following already in place:

class myClass
{
public static function main(root) {

(in here, I access a flash shared object:
myFlashObject = SharedObject.getLocal(root.FO_VAL);
... And so forth )

ultimately calling the javascript callback function:
getURL("javascript:setValue('" + ret_val + "')");
}

There are 3 input parameters on the SWF call, which I refer to as root.a,
root.b, and root.c based on precompiled #DEFINE's.

I want to trace the value of the params and ret_val. Should I define a
separate class for the trace function? What code should it contain that
will actually print out the values I need?

Also, if I am debugging in Firebug (in Firefox), for example, where should I
expect these trace messages to come out -- in the browser window, in the
firebug console, or where?

I am really under the gun here...my swf was working and suddenly stopped
during a major test cycle that depends on my code. So I would greatly
appreciate a fast response if someone has some info. Thanks very much,

Selene

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