I’m developing an AS3 application with the commandline tools from the Flex SDK. My workflow is:
- write code
- compile with
mxmlc - run the SWF file in favorite webbrowser
- repeat
The second step catches compile-time errors, but what about run-time errors and warnings? And trace() output? How can I see that?
I’m not using any IDE with debugging capabilities.
Get the debug version of the Flash player and Firebug for Firefox, then you can see the traces and errors in the console.
When a run-time error occurs that isn’t caught by an exception handler you will get a popup telling you about the error.
Why not get http://www.flashdevelop.org/? It’s free and it has debugging, profiling and all other goodies you can expect from an IDE.