building blocks

I don't remember where I saw the tidbit that turned me on to this class, but wow. It provides incredibly detailed information in the console.

From the docs:

Provides a logger target that uses the global trace() method to output log messages.

To view trace() method output, you must be running the debugger version of Flash Player.

The debugger version of Flash Player sends output from the trace() method to the flashlog.txt file. The default location of this file is the same directory as the mm.cfg file. You can customize the location of this file by using the TraceOutputFileName property in the mm.cfg file. You must also set TraceOutputFileEnable to 1 in your mm.cfg file.