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open-source profiler for flash applications, utilizing the flash.sampler api

flash-profiler

this project aims to develop a set of open-source tools for working with the flash.sampler API

WARNING still very much in-progress

prerequisites

  1. Mac OS X 10.5
  2. Flex SDK

building

  1. compile Agent.as to Agent.swf (TODO, need to make a script for mxmlc, right now I'm just doing it in TextMate)
  2. Build the XCode project in the FlashProfilerApp subdirectory

usage

  1. find your mm.cfg (see section 3), and:
  • add a line like: PreloadSwf=/path/to/Agent.swf?host=localhost&port=42624
    • set the host and port appropriately
  1. Add Agent.swf to your local security domain. See previous PDF.
  2. Launch the FlashProfilerApp application.
  3. Launch the Flash program you wish to debug under the Debug version of the player (standalone or in-browser)
  4. Connect via the app, and go to town