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Bynho
Bynho

Reputation: 692

Flex / adobe air error collection service

I have an adobe air .exe application which randomly crashes sometimes without any clear reason of the cause.

I am investigating ways in which I could run an extra service which is integrated with my app so that when it crashes it works in the same way as the windows error dialog(send error log).

Ideally the log would collect system information such as event log, CPU and ram state, running processes etc

Does anyone know of anything that does that?

Closest thing I have found is airbrake

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 76

Answers (1)

Josh
Josh

Reputation: 8149

You should look into UncaughtErrorEvent, which will allow you to listen for any thrown errors that are unhandled. You can then send the data to some service (Google Analytics, maybe). There are two problems with this:

  • You don't actually have access to much system information in Flash/AIR, only the limited information supplied by the Capabilities and System class.
    • This can be supplemented with an ANE that provides more information (I don't have any on-hand, though I have seen a few in the past)
  • It does not work if the error occurs lower than the AIR runtime. So if something goes wrong in an ANE or in AIR itself, you won't see an error, it will just crash.

Alternatively, you could use something like the Crashlytics ANE (mobile only, sorry) from Freshplanet which seems to handle this a lot better (this is for hard crashes only, I believe, and won't provide any information from your AIR app itself, since it is lower level than that).

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Upvotes: 1

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