Archive for 'air'

Global Exception or Error Handling in Flex

In this post I explain how you can catch unhandled exceptions or errors globally in a declarative mxml-based way using the [Mixin] flex-specific metadata tag.
Starting on FP 10.1 and AIR 2.0 you can capture unhandled exceptions or errors globally. Although you can use these new APIs you should always take care of the exceptions where [...]

Debugging production ready AIR applications

One of the biggest problems around testing installed AIR applications is that testers can’t see when a runtime exception is triggered. Lots of times the symptom of a problem will be something completely different to the real cause and developers will have to spend much more time trying to figure out what was the root [...]