Flash Builder: Export profiler results?

Question

Is it possible to export the profiling results from Flash Builder?

I need them because I'd like to filter based on method name, but Flash Builder's built-in filtering doesn't allow that.

Answer 1

It's buried in a totally obscure, non-intuitive location of the GUI. Open the Profile tab and click the tiny little "v" symbol in the top right of the window then choose Save.

Once you've done that, you can load the results. Open the Saved Profiling Data tab and choose the open icon and choose the folder you saved the files to.

Answer 2

You can export the Flash Builder profiler results but the results appear to be some type of binary format that for now only Flash Builder can parse and view:

Flash Builder Save Profile Results

Save profiling data

1. Select the application in the Profile view.
2. Open the drop-down list in the Profile view and select Save. The Browser for Folder dialog box appears.
3. Choose a location to save the profile data and click OK. You should create a new folder for each set of profiling data that you want to save. Otherwise, the new data will overwrite the old data if you choose the same folder.

Retrieve saved profiling data

1. Select the Saved Profiling Data view.
2. Click the Open button. The Browser for Folder dialog box appears.
3. Navigate to the folder that contains your application’s profile data and click OK. Flash Builder displays the available profiling data in the Saved Profiling Data view. You cannot resume the application in this view, but you can view the memory snapshots, performance profile, or other data that you saved.