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I wanted to ask if there is a possibility to identify objects in more meaningful way during the debug. e.g. now in flex builder debug panel I see for example:

Object(@12131241241)

And ideally I wanted to have Object(@"field1:field2")... is there a way to do it. I believe in java it can be achieved by overriding toString method of the given class.... Tried same in as3 but it did not work

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  • Did you try to override the toString and it did not work? – uncaught_exceptions Dec 16 '11 at 18:05
  • I tried and it did not. Maybe I've did it incompletely? This is how I did it public override function toString():String { return this.xIndex + ":" + this.yIndex; } – Chess Master Dec 16 '11 at 18:25
  • Try casting it to string. I have used toString successfully in trace commands before. – uncaught_exceptions Dec 16 '11 at 18:26
  • Tracing will of course work with overrided `toString()` method, even without casting. But question is about debugger, as I understood. And, to be honest, I don't know any way to get more readable ids in Flash Builder debugger. – skozin Dec 18 '11 at 10:37

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Not answering your question directly here but there are many community debuggers around that give you more meaningful data. The IDE's Intellij Idea or Flash Develop and there are a few other projects such as http://demonsterdebugger.com/ or http://code.google.com/p/flash-console/ which give you an insane toolset for debugging.

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