Ok - what's been happening for me is that I press ctrl + shift + enter, and then the CS3 IDE crashes. I've encountered this on the last 3 macs I've tried it on...
This seems to be an issue for larger projects. Maybe this is the reason. Alias 2008/7/7 Irv Kalb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Long time lurker, first time poster. > > I'm not sure what it is about us old folks, but I believe a debugger is a > necessity too. Although I was told that it was unreliable, and nobody uses > it, I have been using the debugger on OSX with no problems at all. I have > found it very useful for learning. > > I am running Flash CS3 with ActionScript 3.0 only, on an iMac running OSX > 10.5.3. > > I set a breakpoint in my code by going to the left of an line or lines where > I want to stop, and click to the left of the line number. When I'm ready to > run, I go to Debug -> Debug Movie. The Flash runtime starts up, and the > program stops at my first breakpoint. The Debug Console window comes up and > gives me a stack trace, and at the bottom of the same panel, I see a > variables tab that shows me all my variables. On top of that window are > controls to Continue, Stop Debugging, Step Over, Step, and Step Out of. > > Works for me. I use it every day that I'm doing Flash/ActionsScript stuff. > > Irv > >> >> >> Message: 28 >> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:23:35 +0100 >> From: " Alias? " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [Flashcoders] CS3 Debugger DOES NOT WORK ON OSX? >> To: "Flash Coders List" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> >> Message-ID: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I don't know if *anyone* out there besides me actually still uses the >> debugger in CS3, (I am old and will soon be made obsolete by younger, >> leaner, hungrier coders) but WTF is going on there? >> >> I've had this issue on 3 different macs (I just switched over this >> month) and I'm kind of hurting here for a debugger. >> >> Given that CS3 is a supposedly professional software development tool, >> SURELY Adobe would not be so stupid as to ship a product that had a >> completely rewritten debugger which simply failed to work on an entire >> platform? >> >> That sort of thing doesn't happen, does it? >> >> Does it? >> >> Back in the day I would have known who to call at Macromedia to >> complain/whine/shout/log bug reports, but that's all gone by the >> wayside since The Buyout. >> >> Anyone else had this problem? >> >> Alias >> > > -- > > Multimedia R Us > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
