Comments on: Alcon – ActionScript Logging Console

By: sascha

sascha — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:11:29 +0000

Hey John, it would be definitely cool if you send me your modified debug package! My email can be found in the readme file that comes with Alcon.

By: John Brothers

John Brothers — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:23:17 +0000

I don’t remember exactly what I did to change the Alcon code, but it was, relatively speaking, trivial to port to ActionScript 3. I think I basically had to define a bunch of return types to functions.

If you want, I’ll send you the full code package for your reuse.

By: sascha

sascha — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:48:49 +0000

Hi John, I haven’t really tested Alcon yet with AS3.0. How do you use the Debug class which is written in AS2 in a AS3 Flex project?
Either way thanks for pointing this out. I think I will add full support for AS3 once the final Flex2/Player9.0 is out.

By: John Brothers

John Brothers — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:26:44 +0000

Howdy,
I decided to use Alcon in my Flex app, because I wanted an external tool for capturing log messages, but in a way that didn’t make the logging mandatory or require fancy setup. Your tool is great, but I have had a problem: if Alcon isn’t running, I get StatusEvent errors.

So I found a way to fix it, by creating a new class, and using it in place of LocalConnection in your static trace() method:

package net.hiddenresource.util.debug
{
import flash.net.LocalConnection;
import flash.events.*;

dynamic public class DynamicLocalConnection extends LocalConnection
{

public function DynamicLocalConnection() {
addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, statusEventHandler);
}

private function statusEventHandler(event:StatusEvent):void {
;//trace(“statusEventHandler: ” event);
}
}
}

Adding this, it works great whether Alcon is listening or not.

(if this comes out garbled, send me an email and I’ll send you the code a different way)