Installation instructions

Follow these steps to setup Flex-Spy in your Flex 2.0 application:

In Flex Builder, open the Properties window of your project (Project menu > Properties)
On the left side of the Properties window, select Flex Library Build Path.
On the right side of the Properties window, select the Library path tab.
Click the Add SWC... button
Select the flexspy.swc file that you downloaded (from the Downloads section) and click OK.
Add a button somewhere in your Flex application to show the Flex-Spy window:

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
  ...
  <mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
      import com.flexspy.FlexSpy;
    ]]>
  </mx:Script>
  ...
  <mx:Button id="btnFlexSpy" label="FlexSpy" click="FlexSpy.show()" />
  ...
</mx:Application>

Comment by otuyelu, Jan 21, 2008

In Flex 3 noticed that the top of FlexSpy? was too high in browser to see the top ControlBar?. was able to reduce the FlexSpy? height by modifying line 83 of ComponentTreeWnd?.as, setting this.height = 578;

Thanks once again for such a great component

Comment by patrick.brouille, Feb 09, 2008

When you only have Flex SDK (not FlexBuilder?), how to change the command line compiler to accept FlexSpy? ???

Many thanks...

Comment by ajaykemparaj, Feb 23, 2008

Hi Patrick you can specify the library path mxmlc -library-path+=c:/myfiles

With Regards Ajay K http://mxml.wordpress.com

Comment by den.orlov, Sep 01, 2008

Included FlexSpy?? in my project that are built with 3.1.0.2710 Flex web tier compiler and get this exception:

01/09 17:49:01 ERROR java.lang.NullPointerException
        at flex.webtier.server.j2ee.BaseCompileFilter.getDependenciesFromCompilationUnits(BaseCompileFilter.java:215)
        at flex.webtier.server.j2ee.IncrementalCompileFilter.compileMxml(IncrementalCompileFilter.java:114)
        at flex.webtier.server.j2ee.BaseCompileFilter.mxmlToSwf(BaseCompileFilter.java:322)
        at flex.webtier.server.j2ee.BaseCompileFilter.invoke(BaseCompileFilter.java:60)
        at flex.webtier.server.j2ee.RecompileFilter.invoke(RecompileFilter.java:37)
        at flex.webtier.server.j2ee.PathExistsFilter.invoke(PathExistsFilter.java:42)
        at flex.webtier.server.j2ee.MxmlServlet.doGet(MxmlServlet.java:176)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
        at flex.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:114)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1097)
        at org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:96)
        at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1088)
        at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:198)
        at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1088)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:729)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:206)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:829)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:513)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380)
        at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395)
        at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:488)

Comment by zenggang2008, Oct 06 (4 days ago)

Thanks so much!!!! I love it