I’m in the middle of porting our companies portfolio from a flash app to an air app. Part of this is making file references relative to the application and as such removing the dependancy on a web server for information. Since the inital build I’ve moved away from developing in Flash, concentrating my efforts on using the Flex IDE.

So I installed the Air for flash update and though to myself “This shouldnt be too hard”. As you all know these are famous last words for any developer. It turns out that the debugging in flash for air is none existant.

Quickly, I jumped onto google and found Arthropod, a debugging utility and class built in Air. I’m now happily porting my code with great ease. It has some really really useful features suich as color coded output ( customisable), object trace, snapshot, and memory monitoring. Overall a great utility which I cant reccomend enough

Arthropod

Tags: air, debug, Flash, free, utility