Dynamic Flash

Throughout almost all of my ActionScript 2.0 development I used the excellent LuminicBox.Log framework (along with the bundled FlashInspector) to debug my Flash applications. With the advent of ActionScript 3.0 / Flex 2 / Flash 9 we now have a logging API but there’s no easy way to view the logged information¹. To stop me tearing what little hair I have left out I have created the LuminicBoxLoggingTarget class, which can be used with the FlashInspector to debug your applications.

Before I go on I know all the hip kids these days are using the fabulous XRay tool, but sometimes it’s a little too heavy-weight for the job of simply logging debug messages to a console. Plus I’ve not yet got it to play nicely with an ActionScript 3.0 / Flex 2 application.

So, how do you use this fine class?

import mx.logging.*;
import LuminicBox.Log.LuminicBoxLoggingTarget;
 
Log.addTarget(new LuminicBoxLoggingTarget());
 
Log.getLogger("test").debug("Hello, world");

As with most of my classes, this is released under the MIT license, so feel free to use it wherever.