Alcon

ActionScript Logging Console

• Logging API: Send logging information from anywhere in your application by using the logging methods and five different filter levels (debug, info, warn, error, fatal).
• App Monitor: Use Alcon's App Monitor to watch your application's framerate and memory consumption.
• Object Inspector: Check properties of any object recursively by inspecting them with the Object Inspector or by tracing them with traceObj().
• Stopwatch: Check how long any operation in your application takes by measuring it's execution time with the Stopwatch API.
• Hex Dump: Output any object as a hexadecimal dump.
• Key Tracer: The built-in Key Tracer can be used to quickly check what key and/or character code any pressed key is associated with.
• Options:: Configure options like the output font and colors to your preference.
• Built-in Help: Use Alcon's built-in help and API documentation to quickly get started.
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Use quick keyboard shortcuts to pause, clear, reset or scroll the console.
• Disabling: The whole Alcon API can be quickly disabled with one simple method call, useful for going live without removing the debug code.

Alcon is very easy and straightforward to use but here's a quick example to get you started with using Alcon.

First add the alcon.swc to your project's library path so that the compiler is able to find it. The swc can be found in the Alcon install path in the 'debug' folder. Alternatively you can add Alcon's ActionScript class 'Debug.as' to your project's source path. Check your IDE's or compiler's documentation to see how to add library and source paths. The Flex compiler options documentation might be useful here.

Second, create an ActionScript 3 class, name it AlconTest and then copy and paste the following code into it.

package 
{
	import com.hexagonstar.util.debug.Debug;
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	
	public class AlconTest extends Sprite
	{
		/**
		 * Constructor.
		 */
		public function AlconTest()
		{
			Debug.monitor(stage);
			Debug.trace("Welcome to Alcon!");
		}
	}
}

After that start Alcon, then compile and run the class and you should see Alcon's App Monitor begin to work and you will have the trace output in Alcon's logger. You can find a complete help and API documentation by opening 'Help...' from Alcon's Help menu.

NOTE: Alcon requires Adobe's AIR runtime to be installed on your system. If you haven't installed it already you can download AIR here.

Got any questions or problems regarding Alcon? Feel free to check out Alcon's support forum.

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