Adobe AIR Building Apps

BUILDING ADOBE AIR APPLICATIONS
Debugging with the AIR HTML Introspector
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var testObject = new Object();
testObject.foo = "foo";
testObject.bar = 234;
air.Introspector.Console.dump(testObject);
When you execute this code, the Console displays the testObject object and its properties, but you cannot edit the
property values in the Console.
Configuring the AIR Introspector
You can configure the console by setting properties of the global AIRIntrospectorConfig variable. For example, the
following JavaScript code configures the AIR Introspector to wrap columns at 100 characters:
var AIRIntrospectorConfig = new Object();
AIRIntrospectorConfig.wrapColumns = 100;
Be sure to set the properties of the AIRIntrospectorConfig variable before loading the AIRIntrospector.js file (via a
script tag).
There are eight properties of the AIRIntrospectorConfig variable:
Property Default value Description
closeIntrospectorOnExit true Sets the Inspector window to close when all other windows of the
application are closed.
debuggerKey 123 (the F12 key) The key code for the keyboard shortcut to show and hide the AIR
Introspector window.
debugRuntimeObjects true Sets the Introspector to expand runtime objects in addition to objects
defined in JavaScript.
flashTabLabels true Sets the Console and XMLHttpRequest tabs to flash, indicating when a
change occurs in them (for example, when text is logged in these tabs).
introspectorKey 122 (the F11 key) The key code for the keyboard shortcut to open the Inspect panel.
showTimestamp true Sets the Console tab to display timestamps at the beginning of each line.
showSender true Sets the Console tab to display information on the object sending the
message at the beginning of each line.
wrapColumns 2000 The number of columns at which source files are wrapped.
AIR Introspector interface
To open the AIR introspector window when debugging the application, press the F12 key or call one of the methods
of the Console class (see “Inspecting an object in the Console tab” on page 271). You can configure the hot key to be a
key other than the F12 key; see “Configuring the AIR Introspector” on page 273.
Last updated 2/22/2016