Hello. My name is Václav Vančura.

If you use as3logger to standardize your AS3 logging needs, I’ve got something for you.

At Falanxia we’ve been using SOS Max Logger by PowerFlasher, but recently I’ve found a great new supplement, which I think is a great leap forward: Trazzle. Let me copy paste few features we love here:

• Bitmap logging
• Performance monitoring
• Multiple Log Levels
• TextMate support

For us just the Bitmap logging feature was a reason to switch. In case we logged events just via SOS Max, there would be a need to rewrite all logger calls, and it would be a somewhat painful and completely useless experience. Since we use the as3logger approach, it was really easy to add a small Trazzle wrapper. And there was no need to rewrite anything in our sources.

Here’s the source:

/*
 * Falanxia Utilitaris.
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package com.falanxia.utilitaris.logger {
    import com.falanxia.utilitaris.utils.*;
    import com.nesium.logging.*;

    import de.dev_lab.logging.*;
    import de.dev_lab.logging.publisher.*;

    import flash.display.*;



    /**
     * The {@code String} publisher outputs the Log to a Trazzle.
     * See more info about Trazzle here:
     * http://www.nesium.com/products/trazzle
     *
     * @author Vaclav Vancura @ Falanxia a.s. vaclav@falanxia.com
     * @author Falanxia (http://falanxia.com, @falanxia)
     * @since 1.0
     */
    public class TrazzlePublisher implements IPublisher {


        private static var _trazzle:TrazzleLogger;



        /**
         * Constructor.
         */
        public function TrazzlePublisher(stageReference:Stage, appName:String) {
            if(_trazzle == null) {
                _trazzle = new TrazzleLogger();
                _trazzle.setParams(stageReference, appName);
            }
        }



        /**
         * Outputs the message to the {@code String}.
         * @param logLevel Log level
         * @param object Message
         */
        public function publish(logLevel:int, object:*, ...additional):void {
            var prefix:String;

            switch(logLevel) {
                case Logger.DEBUG:
                    prefix = "d ";
                    break;

                case Logger.INFO:
                    prefix = "i ";
                    break;

                case Logger.WARN:
                    prefix = "w ";
                    break;

                case Logger.ERROR:
                    prefix = "e ";
                    break;

                case Logger.FATAL:
                    prefix = "f ";
                    break;

                default:
                    prefix = "";
            }

            if(object == null) object = "[null]";

            _trazzle.log(prefix + String(object), 4);
        }



        /**
         * Clear.
         * Trazzle has no clear method, so it's just a placeholder.
         */
        public function clear():void {
        }



        /**
         * Destructor.
         */
        public function destroy():void {
            clear();
        }



        /* ★ SETTERS & GETTERS ★ */


        /**
         * Get Trazzle reference.
         * @return Reference to Trazzle
         */
        public static function get trazzle():TrazzleLogger {
            return _trazzle;
        }
    }
}

Of course you need as3logger de.dev_lab.logging.Logger class.

All you need now is just an initialization of the logger:

Logger.addPublisher(new TrazzlePublisher(stage, "My application name"));

And you can log as you logged before:

Logger.debug("Debug message");
Logger.info("Info message");
Logger.warn("Warning message");
Logger.error("Error message");
Logger.fatal(Math.random() * 1000);

If you want to call Trazzle for any reason (e.g. to log a Bitmap), you can use:

var myBitmapData = new BitmapData(100, 100);
myBitmapData.noise(Math.random() * 1000);
TrazzlePublisher.trazzle.logBitmapData(myBitmapData);

Or to invoke a beep and show a performance window:

TrazzlePublisher.trazzle.beep();
TrazzlePublisher.trazzle.startPerformanceMonitoring();

You can fork or watch the Gist for this class here on Git.