Setting a breakpoint via code in Actionscript 3

Question

Is there any statement in Actionscript 3 which acts as a breakpoint when executed? That is, something like JavaScript's "debugger" statement.

I need it when developing AS3 applications without an IDE. Setting the breakpoint manually in fdb is rather tedious.

Answer 1

Use enterDebugger function.

import flash.debugger.enterDebugger;

// code ...
enterDebugger()
// code ...