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Logging Flash

You can get additional information out of your Flash® client by using a debug version of the library or of Flash Player.

Debug version of the Diffusion™ Flash client

Diffusion also provides a debug-friendly version of the Flash client libraries: diffusion-flex-debug-version.swc, where version is the Diffusion version number, for example 5.9.4. You can use this to output additional debug information, such as line numbers, in any stack traces that you experience.

Debug version of Flash Player

  1. Download the debug version for the Flash Player. Flash player debug versions are available at the following location: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
  2. Create a mm.cfg file

The table below shows where to create a mm.cfg file

The following text is an example of entries in a mm.cfg file.

# Enables policy file logging
PolicyFileLog=1
# Optional; do not clear log at startup
PolicyFileLogAppend=0
ErrorReportingEnable=1
TraceOutputFileEnable=1

Viewing the log files

In the following directory there can be the following files: flashlog.txt and policyfiles.txt

Table 1. Location of the flashlog.txt file
Windows™ 95/98/ME %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%
Windows 2000/XP C:\Documents and Settings\username
Windows Vista C:\Users\username
OS X®/macOS® /Library/Application Support/Macromedia
Linux™ /home/username
Table 2. Location of the policyfiles.txt file
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\Logs
Windows Vista C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\Logs
OS X/macOS /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs
Linux home/username/Macromedia/Flash_Player/Logs