Utilizing FireFox Firebug
Posted By Thaylin on May 16, 2008
FireBug, for those that don’t know about it, is a great little tool for debugging your apps online.
One of the many things you can do is use it as a logger. This is excellent for flash development debugging on the server as you can easliy utilize the console.log, console.debug, console.error, console.warn, and console.info. The following is a quick class I wrote up to use this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | package com.mylibrary.log { import flash.external.ExternalInterface; public class FireBugLogger { public static function log(s:String):void{ ExternalInterface.call("console.log", s) } public static function debug(s:String):void{ ExternalInterface.call("console.debug", s) } public static function info(s:String):void{ ExternalInterface.call("console.info", s) } public static function warn(s:String):void{ ExternalInterface.call("console.warn", s) } public static function error(s:String):void{ ExternalInterface.call("console.error", s) } } } |
So now you just import your FireBugLogger package and call FireBugLogger.log(’HI THERE’), et voila!
I've lived in New York for about four years now and before that lived in Detroit where I started my career at Raytheon developing E-Learning solutions. Once I moved to NYC I started with Starwood Hotels and Resorts working initially on Flash for the television and moving to the web dev team after that. I love anything that's random in terms of coding and am constantly thinking about how best to recreate the seemingly randomness of nature. When not having my face stuck in a computer monitor I try to give as much back to the community as possible by donating time to New York Cares taking kids from Queens to various fun and educational activities. I also dig cooking, good beer, and am addicted to TED.
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