Question

I wondered if there is a simple way I have have a snippet which traces the name of a method when called. I found className which is half-way there, but not something for the method… a 1-line trace(...) is what I’m after so I avoid typing the method name and leaving myself open to mistakes.
This is for testing the order things happen, when I don’t want to step through in the debugger.

Answer 1

If you have compiled your swf with debug information and use the debug version of the player you can take a look at getStackTrace property from the Error object:

Quick example:

    public function getCallingInfos():Object{
        var tmp:Array=new Error().getStackTrace().split("\n");
        tmp=tmp[2].split(" ");
        tmp=tmp[1].split("/");
        return {namespaceAndClass:tmp[0], method:tmp[1]};
    }

    var infos:Object=getCallingInfos();
    trace(infos.namespaceAndClass, infos.method);