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With the excitement of turning the hull all but forgotten I’m back to the fairing grind. This time it’s the deck and cockpit that are getting the attention of the long board sander. Compared to the hull I think this task is going to be a good deal easier – there’s a lot less surface area to cover and the cloth on the deck is a lighter weight which makes for smoother seams. That and the fact that I’d learned a thing or two by the time it came to installing the deck.

While the fairing compound cures I’ve also been spending some time below decks completing the installation of the centerboard box.

What is FDTracer?
The FDTracer plugin for FlashDevelop 3 is a ‘port’ of Alessandro Crugnola’s awesome FlashTracer Firefox extension. It adds a panel to the FlashDevelop 3 IDE to display trace() statements logged to the debug Flash Player’s log file.

Installing FDTracer
FDTracer should work with FlashDevelop 3 and can be installed by copying the FDTracer.dll to the FD3 plugins directory (note that FD3 plugins are now stored in the user’s application folder).

Configuring FDTracer Settings
After installing, you’ll need to open the FDTracer settings dialog (”Tools > Installed plugins > FDTracer settings”) and set the traceOutputFileName to point to the debug Flash Player log file.

Download FDTracer 0.1:
Grab the FDTracer_0.1.zip from
http://www.andrewlucking.com/code/fdtracer/
(The source is here).

Requirements:
FDTracer displays the contents of the debug Flash Player log file and so requires that you are using the debug version of Flash Player.

Useful links:
Adobe Flash Player downloads
Configuring the debugger version of Flash Player
FlashDevelop 3 Beta 3
FlashTracer Firefox Add-on