The other day my FlashTracer (Firefox add-on) and my FBTracer (FireBug extension for Firefox) stopped working (again!). I’m so tired of these flash tracing tools doing this to me all the time and as an addition I’ve wanted a stand-alone tool for my flash trace for a while, so I can have the Flash trace and Safari windows visible at the same time, without the need for Firefox (or a massive debugging tool – I just want a simple trace output). That’s why this time I wrapped up a small Mac OS app that simply opens Terminal and shows the user the Flash trace output in a Terminal window.
This is no magical app, it still demands that the user has the DEBUG version of Flash player installed and that your flash trace text file is in this directory:
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs/flashlog.txt
(the ~ meaning your home directory in unix talk)
The app is downloadable below and is free for you to use. Note that I release the app with a GPL license and your are welcome to use, distribute and change it. You can open the app using the AppleScript Editor. I would love to hear if you make any useful additions to it but cannot provide any support, sorry.
Enjoy!
