[mtasc] AdminTool standalone connector package is ready

[grant at dvdomain.com.au]

Hi John,

Great, that works perfectly.  I had loaded that tutorial video link previously, but as I didn't have speakers connected at the time I didn't realise it was detailing exactly what I was wanting to know.  Oops! :)

As for the styling, yes, I basically meant HTML styling (colours, bold, underline etc).  But if that is too much of a performance constraint, I will just work with some ASCII art to indicate the log message level.

Finally, this AdminTool swf is in compact mode (Expanded Mode under Tools doesn't seem to be implemented), and the 1.1.4 expanded SWF doesn't seem 100% compatible (the TreeView doesn't expand child movie clips).  Are you intending to release an Expanded version for the Connector only package?

Thanks for your help, and thanks for this great tool - I'm sure debugging will be so much better now.

Regards,
Grant Cox



> 
> From: "John Grden" <john at blitzds.com>
> Date: 2005/06/09 Thu AM 11:04:35 EST
> To: "MotionTwin ActionScript2 Compiler List" <mtasc at lists.motion-twin.com>
> Subject: RE: [mtasc] AdminTool standalone connector package is ready
> 
> Hey thanks Grant!
> 
> Ok, in order:
> 1.  That's what the active treeview is for.  Click on
> tools/treeview/recursive searches and turn it off.  Then, take a
> snapshot of level0.  What's returned are the objects in _level0 ONLY.
> Then, click on the movieclip/object you want to drill down and the
> treeview will be populated at the time you click.  You can also, just do
> a snapshot of level0 without the recursion, then, click on _level0 to
> have its props show up in the property inspector.  THEN, in the PI, you
> can scroll down to find the objects/movieclips that are in _level0.  If
> you find a movieclip/object, just click on that row in the PI and it'll
> let you drill on down as well.
> 
> 2.  Not completely sure what you mean here.  Are you talking about color
> coding the output?  I *used* to have it color coded (using textarea
> component with HTML) but it was too much of a draw on the processor.
> Until I can write a textarea component that pages the text being shown
> (rather than scrolling the entire text field like the current MM version
> does), I'll have to keep it plain text for now.
> 
> Does that help at all? 
> 
> PS> to see what I mean about the active treeview, watch the short video:
> http://www.acmewebworks.com/admintool/videos/admintool_newFeature_newTre
> eView.html
> 
> 
> John Grden - 310-551-0200 x207
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> [mailto:mtasc-bounces at lists.motion-twin.com] On Behalf Of Grant Cox
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:20 AM
> To: MotionTwin ActionScript2 Compiler List
> Subject: Re: [mtasc] AdminTool standalone connector package is ready
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I am developing a RIA in the FAME environment, and have been looking for
> a neat debugging solution like this. AdminTool certainly looks awesome
> and I'm sure it would make debugging enormously easier, however
> unfortunately on our (fairly large) RIA clicking "Take Snapshot" results
> in the "A script is causing the Flash Player to run slowly, do you want
> to abort?" warning numerous times (after about 2 minutes I gave up).
> 
> If I manually type in the path to a specific movieclip it can work very
> well (ie _level0.mainApp.loginForm ), however remembering what the
> actual pathnames are is a bit of a pain :)  It would be great if there
> was an option to capture the non-recursive state of a movieclip, then
> from that capture again.  While capturing the entire application state
> in one go is the best solution, this would be a good second-best.
> 
> Secondly, is there any way to style the Output view?  Currently I use
> MTASC's -trace argument to send my trace statements through FlashOut's
> various log handlers (info, debug, warning, error etc).  The good thing
> about these is they highlight appropriately, the annoying thing is they
> are under a tab in FlashOut - so I can either see the logs or the SWF,
> but not both.  I notice there is a Flashout class distributed with
> adminTool, but it doesn't seem to do anything about styles.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the great work!
> 
> Regards,
> Grant Cox
> 
> 
> John Grden wrote:
> 
> > if you're interested in the active treeview and how it works:
> > http://www.acmewebworks.com/admintool/videos/admintool_newFeature_newT
> > reeView.html
> >  
> >   	<http://www.blitzagency.com/> 	*John Grden*  310-551-0200
> *x207*
> >
> >  
> >
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> > [mailto:mtasc-bounces at lists.motion-twin.com] *On Behalf Of *John Grden
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:03 PM
> > *To:* MotionTwin ActionScript2 Compiler List
> > *Subject:* [mtasc] AdminTool standalone connector package is ready
> >
> > Well, a HUGE thanks to Chris Allen for spear heading this for us!  
> > Classes, docs, examples - you name it, it's in there.
> >  
> > http://acmewebworks.typepad.com/admintool/2005/06/using_the_admin_1.ht
> > ml
> >  
> > this is our first pass at this and we've really gone out of our way to
> 
> > try and put out something that was both complete (works out of the 
> > box), yet easy enough for you to do what you want based on how we did
> it.
> >  
> > Also included in the package is the latest admintool connector and a 
> > compact version of the latest interface (both not released yet).  The 
> > new version has the active treeview feature (turn off 'recursive 
> > searches' and take a snapshot, then click objects in the treeview to 
> > retreive that objects items on demand).  If you get the PHPBrowser 
> > plugin for Eclipse, it's about the coolest/seamless environment I've 
> > seen for flash yet.
> >  
> > So, let me know what you think and how it works out for you!
> >  
> >   	<http://www.blitzagency.com/> 	
> > John Grden
> > *Senior Flash Developer*
> >
> > john at blitzagency.com
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> > *f*  310-551-0022
> >
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