I'm trying to use the trace command to help me debug something i'm working through and nothing displays.

I checked the publish settings to make sure "omit trace actions" is unchecked and it is.

What could be the problem? the output window doesn't come up and as far as I know the syntax is fine. any ideas?

Let's see the code.

trace ("hotdog");

Can you trace ANYTHING from your movie? Have you tried just a generic trace on the first frame or something to make sure it's working?

yeah, that's the weird thing, i opened up a new movie put trace ("show this please"); and got nothing. I have no clue what the hell's the problem. Then I run the same thing in Flash 5 and it seems to trace fine. so confused. I've just been running my code in Flash 5 for now to help debug, but ideally i'd like to use MX.

Weird! I don't know what to tell you then... :|

i rarely, if ever, use trace. i just throw a text area on the top layer of the movie and write to it.

you'll save alot of time mosquito with a trace, cause the text is searchable on right click, if your doing alot of logging, it;s quite handy.

but for doing it on your own: :grumpy:

i guess i just haven't done anything big enough to use trace yet. i'll probably start using it soon enough though. of course this will require me finding another 2 or 3 hours every day to dedicated to flash.