Any way to debug a web app in Chrome using PEPPER?.

Artemix

I spent the last hour trying to debug a project in Chrome, to no avail.

For some reason, I can't install the NPAPPI version, which is ok since it's going to be phased out anyway, but on top of that I can't use the PEPPER version to debug either, I'm forced to use Firefox.

It's been a while since I needed to make a web project using Flash, but still, didn't think this was the case.

Am I missing something?.

Thanks.

joshtynjala

I've never tried debugging Flash content in Chrome. However, I know that you can download "Flash Player content debugger for Opera and Chromium based applications – PPAPI" from here.

I assume you go into chrome://plugins to enable it, if it doesn't just work after installing.

Artemix

Josh thanks, I did that, I downloaded exactly the same one. But even after doing it, it doesn't show up in the plugin's section of chrome, so I only have PEPPER to work with, which doesn't seem to be the debugger version, if there is one.

joshtynjala

You could try running Chrome with the --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash command line argument. Maybe that's required to use the Pepper debugger that you installed.

Artemix

Yeah, I was about to post this:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6213033?hl=en

I had it disabled, so there was no way to enable the NPAPPI version. Another thing is, there seems to be no debugger version of PEPPER, at all.

Anyway, the error I was needing to debug only happened with PEPPER, not with NPAPPI.

The error happened when trying to use the AssetManager, I say the error because I think it was an error, no pop-up message to confirm though.

In other words, the assets I was trying to load using the PEPPER version of Flash never ended or a error was quietly thrown. As soon as I enabled the NPAPPI version I could see the assets without problem.

If this is truly an error, I hope they fix it when they remove the NPAPPI verson for good in Chrome 45. Now the latest version is 44.

joshtynjala

there seems to be no debugger version of PEPPER, at all.

Yes, there is. I pointed you to the PPAPI version of the Flash Player content debugger. PPAPI === Pepper.

Artemix

I did download the PEPPER version, it didn't work. Tried the command also, didn't work.

joshtynjala

You might try Chromium or Opera.

Robominister

If you just want trace log, PPAPI player (even the standard version) creates its own trace log in a seperate location from other flash players.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27791515/how-to-get-trace-output-from-ppapi-content-debugger-flash-player

On win 7, its something like

C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\WritableRoot\Logs\flashlog.txt