Some weeks ago, some gold was found in the Flex documentation. There is actually a possibility to get hold of all those warnings that the Flash Player supresses. Enter Afterthought by Gregg Wygonik.
Flash is forgiving when it comes to errors and typos. It's a good thing for lazy programmers, but real coders hate the Flash debugging tools. Somewhere deep inside the Flex documentation there was a mention of a way to access some extra debug information and Gregg Wygonik started digging. Some hacks are required to make it work and this is a PC only thing. It can however both save time and increase the speed of your projects. To simplyfy this process, Gregg has written a small .NET program that does the full setup and adds some nifty features. The program is called AFTERTHOUGHT - Another Flash Tool, Explicitly Related To Hidden Or Undocumented "Genuinely Helpful Things".
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