[#SDK-14536] AIR puts a read-only lock on flashlog.txt

Flex SDK

AIR puts a read-only lock on flashlog.txt

Created: 02/04/08 02:44 PM Updated: 06/05/09 05:52 PM

Component/s:

mx: WindowedApplication

Security Level:

Public (All JIRA Users )

Severity:	Data Loss/Corruption
Reproducibility:	Every Time
Discoverability:	Medium
Found in Version:	None
Affected OS(s):	Windows - XP
Steps to Reproduce:	« Hide Steps to reproduce: 1. Have a tail program watch flashlog.txt 2. Go to a website that uses flash and has trace statements 3. Run an AIR app installed on your machine. Actual Results: Air takes over the flashlog.txt and you can't then debug from a browser to the flashlog file. Expected Results: They should both write to flashlog.txt Workaround (if any): You can't have an AIR app running while you debug. Show » Steps to reproduce: 1. Have a tail program watch flashlog.txt 2. Go to a website that uses flash and has trace statements 3. Run an AIR app installed on your machine. Actual Results: Air takes over the flashlog.txt and you can't then debug from a browser to the flashlog file. Expected Results: They should both write to flashlog.txt Workaround (if any): You can't have an AIR app running while you debug.
Language Found:	English
Bugbase Id:	none
QA Owner:	Joann Chuang Anderson
Resolved by:	Lauren Park
Participants:	Ferdi Koomen, James, Jason Langdon, Jay Paroline, jeff tapper, Joann Chuang Anderson, Louie Penaflor and Sergey Shamruk
Browser:	Firefox 2.x
JDK:	Sun 1.6.x

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jeff tapper - [02/08/08 09:34 PM ]

What was the fix for this issue?

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Joann Chuang Anderson - [02/14/08 12:00 PM ]

This issue is not a Flex issue. It's a decision on the side of the AIR team. A bug has been filed in their database.

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Jay Paroline - [03/02/09 07:47 PM ]

Can we get a link to the bug? I haven't been able to find it...

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Ferdi Koomen - [04/08/09 10:59 AM ]

Is there an Adobe AIR bugbase? If so: Could we get the link? The bug still exists in Adobe AIR 1.5.1

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Jason Langdon - [04/29/09 05:13 AM ]

I've been watching this issue for about 6 months now and am amazed that there's been no official comment other than to say, "yes we know".

It's the reason I'm not using AIR applications on a daily basis, as everytime I want to work on Flash (which being a Flash developer, is funnily enough every day) I have to close down all the AIR apps that I'm running.

Further to this, there's some great debugging tools out there built in AIR - but ironically as they're built in AIR they can't access the flashlog.txt file. Which is kinda stoopid, give that's these debugging tools primary purpose.

So come on Adobe, what gives with the decision to lock the file? And can we get around this?

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Sergey Shamruk - [05/05/09 11:30 AM ]

Is this issue already fixed? When the release is going to come out?

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James - [06/05/09 05:52 PM ]

Since this was closed and AIR does not have a public bug system I opened one in Flash Player:

https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-2163