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XRay Updated!

Published
by
Marc
on July 2, 2007
in Flash and LogViewer
. 3 Comments

John Grden has just released a new version of XRay, the gosh darn bestest Flash debugging tool out there.

The big news for me is it uses my LogViewer component for the log output panel! I hope everyone enjoys it.

Get it: http://osflash.org/xray

John’s announcement:

New LogViewer component replaces Xray’s output - Thanks to Marc Hughes for creating such a killer component and being cool enough to integrate it with Xray!

includes:

*Debug level filtering
*Text filtering / package filtering
*Highlighting
*Search

Latest Xray interface online:
http://www.rockonflash.com/xray/flex/Xray.html

Download the SWF to run locally:
http://www.rockonflash.com/xray/flex/Xray.zip

LogViewer component:
http://rogue-development.com/logViewer.xml

AS3 News for Xray:
Currently, I have a solid beta of the component working. It looks through all display lists and the property inspector seems to be working properly. Some of the other features with highlighting nodes on stage, grid drawing, filters and sound are not working with AS3 yet. I expect that those will all change in a big way so, I’ve just been getting base functionality running. Also, I’m still at a bit of a learning curve with AS3. Debugging visual aspects like we did in AS2 is definitely different, and thats why it’s taking a while to get something out.

The good news is, I’ve written it to work:

1. as a component for CS3 (like the as2 version)
2. with the new constructor: var xray:Xray = new Xray();
3. with flex2 via new constructor

If there’s enough interest in it, I’ll post the beta with docs and let people hammer on it. Need is usually what drives us, so might as well stir up some need :)

Log Viewer & XRay

Published
by
Marc
on June 11, 2007
in Actionscript, LogViewer, OpenSource and XRay
. 2 Comments

I’ve made a bunch of changes to LogViewer, you can get the latest package over at:

http://www.rogue-development.com/logViewer.xml

But much more interestingly, I made the changes in direct response for my desire to improve the logging facilities in XRay.

In case you’ve never heard of it before, XRay is the best tool for debugging Flash applications out there. It’s written by a guy named John Grden that I’ve had the opportunity to work with for the past year or so. Last week I told him about LogViewer and he added it in to XRay. But it just didn’t feel right. It looked clunky and there was some functionality that should be there but was missing. So for the past couple days I’ve been hacking apart LogViewer, adding in a few features, and making it look a little prettier. Here are the results…

As you can see, the search functionality remains, but with a find-previous option listed.

Two new features include the ability to filter based on a text string, and the ability to highlight lines that contain a text string. Both very useful when you have an application spewing large amounts of logging information at you.

With any Luck, we can get these changes wrapped up over the next week to a release-quality state and post it for all to use.