Randy Troppmann

As Flash and Flex applications get more complex the ability to watch trace statements while running the application in a browser is invaluable. This is how I do it (in OSX):

1) find your mm.cfg file. Mine is located here: ~username/mm.cfg (substitute "username" with your real username)

2) open it in a text editor and add these lines:

3) open a terminal window and add this to your .profile file.

To watch your browser throw trace statements, just open a terminal window and type "trace" and they will now appear in the terminal window.

I dealt with this with the 10.5.2 update. Apparently the OSX update installs a fresh version of the Flash Player which is not the debugging version. This will disable the ability for Flex Builder to test an application in debug mode. It is a simple fix (I like simple). Simply download the Flash Player with debugger and install it.

My website RUNINGMAP.COM was blogged by Michael Surtees which caused a cascade of blogging around the site. The result was a spike in hits especially after a japanese blog posted a writeup. I was curious to read the site and I found this free translation tool on Apple's website.