flash debug: flex app compiled with eclipse fdt doesn't show line numbers on errors

Question

I have firefox 3.6.15 with flash debug version 10.3. whenever an error occurs a popups comes up with the error and a stack trace but it does not line numbers of each leaf in the stack trace which makes it more difficult to debug.

any ideas how to configure it to actually show line numbers ?

I think it may relate to how I compile my flash application. (i think!) i use eclipse FDT 4.2 to compile and i added the following compiler flags:

-debug=true
-compiler.verbose-stacktraces

i think these parameters should be enough but I may be wrong.

thanks!

Answer 1

I'm afraid that this is a limitation on the compiler. Sometimes you will get errors without line numbers either because the error comes from a SWC (which mean the code is already compiled) or that your error relates to something that it's hard to get the line number (like a css syntax error for instance).

The good news is, Adobe is currently reworking the compiler and should be better in coming versions of Flex.