Linux – Flash trace output in firefox, linux

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I'm developing an applications which I've got running on a server on my linux desktop. Due to the shortcomings of Flash on Linux (read: too hard) I'm developing the (small) flash portion of the app in Windows, which means there's a lot of frustrating back and forth. Now I'm trying to capture the output of the flash portion using flash tracer and that is proving very difficult also. Is there any other way I could monitor the output of trace on linux? Thanks…

Best Answer

Hope this helps too (for the sake of google search i came from):

In order to do trace, you need the debugger version of Flash Player from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html (look for "debugger" version specifically - they are hard to spot on first look)

Then an mm.cfg file in your home containing

ErrorReportingEnable=1 TraceOutputFileEnable=1 MaxWarnings=50

And then you are good to go - restart the browser. When traces start to fill in, you will find the log file in

~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/Logs/flashlog.txt

Something like

tail ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/Logs/flashlog.txt -f

Should suffice to follow the trace.