Chapter 5. Debugging

One of the most important aspects of learning any new programming language or technology is knowing how to debug a problem when it occurs. No matter how skilled or smart you are, problems will occur, bugs will creep into your code, and something just won’t work the way it should. In this chapter, you’ll learn about some specific techniques and actual code you can use to help solve the problems you encounter as you develop your own AIR applications.

Because this book addresses AIR development using HTML and JavaScript, the bulk of the debugging information herein pertains just to JavaScript. This includes using simple alert dialogs or the JavaScript tools included in the excellent Firefox Web browser. The AIR API (see the previous ...

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