My colleagues confirm that the Mac standalone player shows the exception dialog. Are you running some other debugger player?
Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mitchgrrt Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 5:14 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: how to enable stack traceback? Thanks for the good suggestion. Running outside the debugger, Capabilities.debug is true, but there's no stack traceback on a null pointer exception. Capabilities.version is MAC 10,0,32,18. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > I'm running both 9 and 10 on Windows. When you run without the debugger could > you be launching a different player? Try displaying Capabilites.version and > isDebugger. Could be a Mac thing. I don't have a Mac. > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of mitchgrrt > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:52 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: how to enable stack traceback? > > > > Yes I did try a simple case. I put some code that causes a null pointer > exception into a screen's onCreationComplete handler. I see the traceback > inside the debugger but nothing when running the program without the debugger. > > There seems to be a lot of confusion about this issue, and also just about > the terminology to talk about it. I wonder if it's really just a Mac vs. > Windows issue? In other kinds of software development it's common to see > differences across platforms, but it's much less common with Flex. > > What version of the Flash player are you running? I was thinking maybe it was > something that worked with version 9 and got broken with version 10. > > --- In > flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > Alex Harui <aharui@> wrote: > > > > If you have a debugger player you should be seeing the exception dialog > > whether you are in the debugger or not. I still do on Windows. I don't have > > a Mac to try it. Did you try a simple test case? > > > > Alex Harui > > Flex SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
