Alcon
Alcon is a lightweight debugging tool for ActionScript developers that provides several straightforward and quickly accessible methods to debug any ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3 application, be it from the Web Browser, the standalone Flash Player or an AIR Runtime. It offers an easy way to output debug information from anywhere, not just while in the Flash IDE or in the Flex Debugger. It comes packed with an Application Monitor that can monitor the framerate and memory consumption, an Object Inspector for viewing the properties of any Object, Array or Class and up to two File Loggers. Alcon runs on any platform that supports Adobe AIR and can be used with the Flex compiler, the Flash IDE or MTASC.
Features in Version 3
- Rewritten for Adobe AIR.
- Trace API to output any kind of data in the same fashion ActionScript’s own trace method does but with severity levels, filtering and recursive object tracing.
- A new App Monitor that monitors Framerate, Frame Render Time and Memory Consumption.
- A completely new Object Inspector to view the properties of Objects, Arrays and Classes.
- Included Help-Panel for quick access to Help and API documentation.
- Supports ActionScript 2 and 3.
- Two File Loggers which can be activated optionally to monitor log files.
- Options Dialog to comfortably configure settings like background and text colors, output font and many other preferences.
- Auto-Update.
Screenshots
Alcon's Object Inspector
Alcon's Help Panel
Download
Alcon requires Adobe AIR to run. Get it here!
Alcon Support Forum
Please user the forum at forums.hexagonstar.com for any support-related issues about Alcon.
I do like your debugger. Thank you!
It would be awesome to filter the messages. We’re having multiple flash apps running.
This could be as simple as “only show messages if they start with…”
Alcon is great, thanks.
Filtering and custom Filter-Levels are quite high on the wish-list so they are planned for the next larger update (which, alas I’m not sure will be out yet).
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Alcon is great, thanks !!!
Did I miss something ?
Only one thing, the Flash traces dont output in Alcon
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Hi. List of traces Will be nice create in Alcon not TextArea. And changing of line colors for better reading
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I may be missing something obvious, but where is any documentation for an API to use this tool? SOmeone mentioned including a SWC in their project, but I can’t find any mention of this in the forums or here. Help?
Jim, the help can be found under the Help menu in Alcon but the last publish somehow skipped to include all the help and API files. I’ve fixed this now. Please update to 3.1.1. You can update Alcon if you go into Log Menu/Options.
Error in installing update. Because wrong settings of setup program. I try upgrade from Alcon v3.0.1.1475
Читал об этом в Википедии. Вообще конечно прикольная тема.
Hi there,
Im having an error when installing update.
My current version is *** Alcon v3.0.1.1480 ***, running on Windows XP spIII, update is v3.1.1.
regards,
goliatone
goliatone, I’m really not sure what could be wrong. Does the installer say what kind of error occurs? Otherwise you might want to try to uninstall the old version completely first and later move your configs over to the new Alcon config folder under user/appdata/roaming.
ok, the error message is something like:
The application could not be installed, the setup program was not configured properly. Bla bla…
I will give it a shot and uninstall first.
regards,
goliatone
Wow! Nice job on this app. Been looking for something like this for a while.
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