Debugging and Configuring Shumway

Using the Inspector

The inspector provided as one of the examples. The local web server shall be used to open the inspector web page -- the files/resources are loaded using XMLHttpRequest, which is not working for local file system. The local web server can be created by the python -m SimpleHTTPServer (or make server) command.

The inspector is located in the examples/inspector folder and can be opened in the browser using e.g. http://localhost:8000/examples/inspector/inspector.html url. The "Open File" button can be used to open SWF and ABD files from the local system.

The inspector has several push buttons:

• Sys - when pushed, the Shumway tries to compile (vs only interpret) playerglobal's byte code to JavaScript;
• App - when pushed, tries to compile SWF file byte code;
• Verifier - when pushed, uses additional optimization for the compiled code;
• Trace - when pushed, the additional message about compilation, interpretation or property accesses will be logged in the console;
• Release - when pushed, does not run debug asserts during code execution;
• Symbols - when pushed, displays information about symbols that are currently on stage (hover mouse to see more information).

The inspector accepts number of arguments in the query string:

• rfile - loads and opens specified SWF file, e.g. http://localhost:8000/examples/inspector/inspector.html?rfile=../examples/racing/race3.swf will automatically open and run race3 file;
• async - if true is specified, the inspector will use progressive loading of the file;
• paused - if true is specified, the movie will be opened paused, use Command/Ctrl+F8 to start running;
• size - specifies the size of the movie in the <width>x<height> format (e.g. 320x240);
• yt - allows to specify video ID and open youtube video by sniffing flashvars from the HTML page, requires systemXHR permission.

All (other) parameters will be treated as flash movie parameters (flashvars).

Using the Extension

TBD