Google Chrome, Flash Debugger and Tracing in the browser

Yesterday I was trying to test a fullscreen button on a video player and realised that I couldn’t unless it was inside a browser window. Unfortunately this meant that I would have no way to view traced results, so I installed Vizzy, a browser app that allows you to view flash traces whilst viewing your flash in a browser.

I’ve known about Vizzy for a while, but I’ve previously had no real need for it and when I’ve tried to install it in the past it didn’t seem to work with Chrome (my current browser of choice) so it was uninstalled pretty quickly. But this time I had no choice but to get it working – and as it turns out, the solution was pretty simple… More

Warning 1090: Migration issue

Actionscript 3 errors and warnings are not always easy to understand – especially if you’re teaching yourself and aren’t completely up on all of the terminology. Sometimes I scream for the error message to be plainer English and spend far too long googling the solution. So from now on if I get an error and found that the solution was simple but took a while to find, I’m going to blog it here. Hopefully it will help somebody else too! More