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Handle ActionScript runtime errors

Good day!

What is the best\recommended way of handling runtime errors in AS3? I mean errors that were not catched by try...catch. I'd like to log such errors and provide some handler to show user some message? May be there are some AS3-specific best practicies?

Thanks!

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The best way is providing a patch :D

But until then, your suggestion is probably the best way to go. Present the user with a notification and send a report to your server, or something like that. Depending on the severity of the error, you might want to advice the user to reload.

greetz
back2dos

back2dos  2010-06-24 09:15:22
The main question is: how to handle this 'unhandled' errors? :) The AS3 is event-based in it's nature.
artvolk  2010-06-24 10:10:04
@artvolk: It seemed like you were asking about best practices, not about implementation details. As for implementation, splash provided the correct answer.
back2dos  2010-06-24 11:21:27
Sorry, may be I was unclear -- the problem is how to catch this errors, not how to show them to the user or log...Please see link to bugreport above in splash's post
artvolk  2010-06-24 14:28:34
+1  A: 

Use Flash Player 10.1 and a global error handler.

splash  2010-06-24 09:23:30
It there any way to get this working with 9.0?
artvolk  2010-06-24 10:08:50
Nope. That's why https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-444 existed for a long time.
splash  2010-06-24 10:47:35

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