Ok, you know how sometimes the flash runtime throws an error in a popup window
with a stack trace that and let's you click 'dismiss' or 'cancel'. I need to
do something like that. My flex app gets invoked from a java process so I
can't use the debugger and trace statements. But the program is crashing and I
need to figure out why.

The program is receiving some arraycollections and needs to append those to
the arraycollections which are set up during initialization. These
arraycollections are data providers for some charts. I have to do everything
in actionscript. I set up the data binding like this.

BindingUtils.bindProperty(lineSeries, "dataProvider", ser, "pointList");

Here is the way I'm currently trying to append the new data and catch the
error, but this does not work.




try {
for (var i:int = 0; i<newArray.length; i++) {
oldArray.addItem(newArray.getItemAt(i));
}
} catch (err:Error) {
// code to react to the error
var errorMessage:TextField = new TextField();
errorMessage.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
errorMessage.textColor = 0xFF0000;
errorMessage.text = err.message;
addChild(errorMessage);
}

"Cr99" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, you know how sometimes the flash runtime throws an error in a popup
> window
> with a stack trace that and let's you click 'dismiss' or 'cancel'. I need
> to
> do something like that. My flex app gets invoked from a java process so I
> can't use the debugger and trace statements. But the program is crashing
> and I
> need to figure out why.

throw new Error("This is what you'll see in the error window");

Amy, thanks for your help. Where is the error message supposed to appear? In
a pop-up? In the console? I tried adding this line in the code in various
ways but it never fired any kind of notification.

"Cr99" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Amy, thanks for your help. Where is the error message supposed to appear?
> In
> a pop-up? In the console? I tried adding this line in the code in
> various
> ways but it never fired any kind of notification.

You have to be on a machine with the debug player installed.

I do have the debug player installed. It works fine for trace() but since I
don't launch this myself, I don't know how to enable the debug mode. This app
gets launched remotely from a Java process. Is there a way for me to turn on
the debug mode in an app which is already running?

"Cr99" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I do have the debug player installed. It works fine for trace() but since
>I
> don't launch this myself, I don't know how to enable the debug mode. This
> app
> gets launched remotely from a Java process. Is there a way for me to turn
> on
> the debug mode in an app which is already running?

I get debug messages from swf files embedded in an Authorware exe, so unless
Java is suppressing them somehow you should see them. Try it with a simple
app that just throws an error.