Flash Debug Panel v2
There are a number of these LocalConnection external trace panels around now. They are very useful, especially if you are using an third party compiler like MTASC. Of course, something like AdminTool is the ultimate, but sometimes you just want to trace a few values out to see what’s happening.
Anyways, I made my own a while back, and blogged about it here. Although it was no-frills, I found that several people liked it and were using it regularly. Cool. One of them was Tim Walling, who not only used it, but offered a few enhancements. So, over the past week or two, we collaborated on version 2.
Improvements:
- You can now specify a level for each message: Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Fatal. These are color coded in the trace panel.
- You can filter messages by level, and set a default level.
- You can still ignore levels and turn off the prefixes for simple traces.
- You can save as plain text or html, preserving the color coding.
- The panel remembers its size and position when you close it, and goes back there when you reopen it. (My favorite feature.)
The exe was built using SWF Studio v3, which is pretty rocking itself. The whole thing is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, which basically means you get all the source code and can do whatever the hell you want with it as long as you credit the authors.