Desktop flash log viewer for windows?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knew of an application that would show the flash log live as it updates, I made a simple app in VB that is a web browser control that is mapped to the location of my flashlog.txt but I always have to hit F5 and for some reason recently it has stopped working... so, anyone know of one for windows that works well?

Answer 1

I use the free BareTail application to monitor log files. You could point it at flashlog.txt and watch it go.

Be sure to check out the "highlight" feature - it automatically highlights lines that match customizable patterns, which makes it quite easy to locate those lines of interest in the log file.

Answer 2

Maybe check that you have the debug version of the player and that you export the swf in debug mode.

This may be out of context as you may have a specific reason to track the flashlog.txt. But if you want to simply monitor your SWFs activity there's quite a lot of possibilities out there, here's a few of them:

Firebug - In FireFox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Example : ExternalInterface.call("console.log", "Hello");

ThunderBolt - External Air App

http://code.google.com/p/flash-thunderbolt/

Example : Logger.error("Hello");

FDB (shipped with FLEX SDK) - Terminal

Tutorial

Example : trace("Hello");