custom trace class ??

[delfick]

hello

I am trying to do this thing entirely in actionscript, and hence have to use mtasc to compile it.......

the problem i have with doing this entirely in actionscript and hence not having to use the IDE, is how do I receive any trace statements ??

I've seen mentions of using a custom trace class

but I can't find an example of such a thing

can anyone please explain to me how it works, and possibly how to make one ??

thnx

[J0e7]

perhaps haXe is usefull for you..

[delfick]

I might have a look at that one day when I have some time on my hands ....

but meanwhile i currently have this project entirely in actionscript and it'd be so very helpful if I could quickly add trace capabilities to it to make debugging slightly easier now that i'm not using the IDE..

thnx

[rje]

Download the debug player from adobe and follow these instructions

All trace will then be sent to a file which you can monitor.

[delfick]

thankyou

one problem, where can I find a debug player for linux??

thnx

[rje]

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashpl...loads.html#fp9

halfway down

[delfick]

thankyou

though one problem, with my project, none of the buttons work in that player

it does in the browser player, but not that one

is it possible for a firefox plugin for the debugger player?

(my project can be found here http://delfick.storage.googlepages.com/flashbsm.zip)

thnx....

[Musicman]

Hi,

this might be an alternative: I usually replace all trace() calls by _root.mytrace() [if you can #define that, it certainly helps]
The mytrace function uses localconnection to send to a second browser window. The process is somewhat slow (adding lots of text to a scrolling text field in flash compared to adding the text to a native window or a file)
It might be helpful to add a button to the trace window that sends the textfield contents to a file on the server

Musicman

[delfick]

ok then....

are you able to give an example of that please ??

thnx

[Musicman]

Hi,

that's the code I use for thze movie:

function mytrace(text) {
        var lc = new LocalConnection();
        lc.send('tracelog', 'text', text);
}

and that's the receiver:

function mytrace(txt)
{       log += txt + '\n';
        log.scroll = log.maxscroll;
}
receiver = new LocalConnection();
receiver.text = function(txt)
{       mytrace(txt);
};
receiver.connect('tracelog');

Musicman

[delfick]

cool, i think i can sort of understand that, but it isn't working.....

attached is what i've quickly made up, and i open the reciever swf up and then the client.swf but nothing happens in the reciever.swf

thnx for your help (and patience )

[Musicman]

Hi,

I cannot open your fla, only look inside the swf. You are using theText as an instance name where I used log as a variable name. So the code should change to

function mytrace(txt)
{       theText.text += txt + '\n';
        theText.scroll = theText.maxscroll;
}
receiver = new LocalConnection();
receiver.text = function(txt)
{       mytrace(txt);
};
receiver.connect('tracelog');

Musicman

[delfick]

hmmm, it still doesn't want to connect to each other

I have

code:

---

function mytrace (text)

{

	var lc = new LocalConnection ();

	lc.send ('tracelog', 'text', text);

}

for (i = 0; i < 30; i++)

{

	mytrace (i);

}

---

in the client.fla

and

code:

---

this.createTextField("theText", 9, 10, 10, Stage.width-20, Stage.height-20);

theText.border = true

function mytrace (txt)

{

	this.theText.text += txt + '\n';

	this.theText.text.scroll = this.thetext.text.maxscroll;

}

receiver = new LocalConnection ();

receiver.text = function (txt)

{

	mytrace (txt);

};

receiver.connect ('tracelog');

---

in the reciever.fla

.... and nothing ever happens...

[delfick]

YAY!

thnx to this here http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...liceId=2#lcas2

I've changed them to be this in the client.fla

code:

---

var lc = new LocalConnection ();

function mytrace (text)

{

	lc.send ('tracelog', 'tracer', text);

}

for (i = 0; i < 30; i++)

{

	mytrace (i);

}

---

and this in the reciever.fla

code:

---

this.createTextField ("theText", 9, 10, 10, Stage.width - 20, Stage.height - 20);

theText.border = true;

function mytrace (txt)

{

	this.theText.text += txt + '\n';

	this.theText.text.scroll = this.thetext.text.maxscroll;

}

var receiver = new LocalConnection ();

receiver.connect ('tracelog');

receiver.tracer = function (txt)

{

	mytrace (txt);

};

---

and it works

thankyou very much for your help

[delfick]

so the next question becomes, how do i use this #define thing you mentioned ??

and is it possible to use different textFormats on different parts of the same text field ??

thnx

[delfick]

and i've managed to create this nice little trace window
(unfortunately the code it uses is from my aforementioned project, and it's fairly messy code, but it seems to work )

[delfick]

so then, I've made it all very much better now

can be found here http://flashbsm.googlecode.com/svn/testing/tracer/
to download it all, have subversion installed, and with the command
svn checkout http://flashbsm.googlecode.com/svn/testing/tracer/

my problem is though, that I want to make it slightly better in that when I call the trace function, I can also set a particular colour for the next line of text.

So I'm wondering if it's possible for a text field to hold different coloured lines of text ?

the code in question is in ui/windows.as (after following that link above) lines 240-246

code:

---

if (colour != undefined)

{

    logger += "***** I want the next line of text to be of the colour : " + colour + "\n";

}

logger += text + "\n";

container.canvas.tracer.tracer_txt.text = logger;

addItem ("scroller");

---

...

thnx

[delfick]

don't worry about it

found the solution

seeing as all my colours in my code are already as numbers, I changed it so that it accepts numbers and changed the above code to read

code:

---

if (colour != undefined)

{

	logger += "<font color='#" + colour.toString(16) + "'>" + text + "</font>\n";

}

else

{

	logger += "<font color='#000000'>" + text + "</font>\n";

}

container.canvas.tracer.tracer_txt.htmlText = logger;

addItem ("scroller");

---

problem solved