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, 2008

Thanks so much!!!! I love it

Comment by josilva, Nov 02, 2008

A great tool! Keep on going!

Comment by abenhaim, Nov 09, 2008

Great Job!

Will definitely come in handy.

Comment by Eric4life, Nov 13, 2008

Very great job! thanks!

Comment by janeesh.dm, Jan 08, 2009

Great tool

Comment by tian0527, Jan 19, 2009

thanks

Comment by gazoot, Feb 22, 2009

Really good stuff, thanks so much! I'm about to look at some graph programming, and your live example on the front page seemed very good as a starting point. Is it possible to get the source, just to see how it works?

Comment by zhjg04403, Mar 01, 2009

good job

Comment by ze.c...@gmail.com, Mar 03, 2009

Very useful. Thanks a lot.

Comment by sean.rea, Mar 05, 2009

The FlexSpy?-1.2-Flex3.zip file doesn't have a SWC inside it!

Comment by sean.rea, Mar 05, 2009

Nevermind... OS X was expanding the SWC after expanding the zip.

Comment by manfred.karrer, May 08, 2009

great tool! thanks a lot for sharing!

Comment by slysop, May 29, 2009

I am getting this error::

unable to load SWC FlexSpry?-1.2-Flex3.zip

I am on a MacBookPro? (new) and using the plugin version of flex builder 3. Thanks

Comment by navinnavin69, Jun 03, 2009

Great tool. very useful. Thanks