Phil Peron Flash Platform Developer and Game Development Hobbyist

AIR Locks flashlog.txt

Airlocks are cool. They save lives every day.

AIR locks suck. They make life hell when you’re debugging.

I’ve just found the hard way that an application running on AIR puts an exclusive lock on your flashlog.txt file. So if you’re a fan of FlashTracer to keep track of your trace statements and of installing and using AIR apps, you’re SOL.

In short, you can either develop AIR apps or use them, but not both.

You can check out the useless bug page, here.