Firebug Target for Flex Logging Framework

We were talking about debugging Flash/Flex applications inside the browser the other day at MN.swf Camp and I mentioned that someone had created something called FlashBug that interfaced with Firebug. I’d never really looked into it much, but I knew it existed at one point. Well, it turns out the link to that is broken. So I did a little digging and found that the interaction with Firebug is super simple. So I decided to create a custom Target that works with the Logging framework in Flex. The following is an example of how to use this target:

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import com.dannypatterson.logging.FirebugTarget;
import mx.logging.ILogger;
import mx.logging.Log;
 
var logger:ILogger = Log.getLogger("myLogger");
var logTarget:FirebugTarget = new FirebugTarget();
logTarget.addLogger(logger);
logger.info("info from flex");
logger.error("error from flex");
logger.warn("warn from flex");
logger.debug("debug from flex");

Download the FirebugTarget class here.