2006
08.14

Flash Peek Bookmarklet

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A little trick I’ve picked up along the way is to enter Javascript directly into the address bar in order to peek at variables inside a running flash movie.

Well I got bored of always having to specify the name/id of the flash movie and having to re-type variable paths in, so i wrote a bookmarklet that identifies the first flash movie on the page, prompts you to enter the variable name you want to see and also retains your last entry in a cookie.

Just open the link below, copy the Javascript (making sure to remove any linebreaks) and create a link in your browser’s links toolbar. Paste the javascript as the URL (ignoring any warnings) and then click it when viewing a page that contains a flash movie.

View Javascript

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  1. Mateaus Landstrumm said: 2007.05.30 10:49

    Hi,

    this is a great concept – i can’t get it to work though.

    I get a ‘null’ returned in Firefox and Safari.

    Wondering if it works in Flash Player 9, or only in certain browsers.

    I’d find this very useful indeed for web dev as I use flash alot. Are there any thoughts on why it doesn’t work correctly?

    Thanks

  2. Mateaus Landstrumm said: 2007.05.30 11:10

    Aha! It works in I.E!

    cant get it to read any other variable than version though… is there a way to do this please?

  3. Kim said: 2007.06.26 21:53

    Updated it today as I needed to use it for debugging a project. Think there was some buggy bits in there before.
    You should be able to access all your vars now.

    -k

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