// Playground of Jens Krause
It’s never to late to learn a new (programming) language 
So I’ve been starting to learn Cocoa, Apple’s Objective-C based programming environment for Mac OS X.
My “Cocoa”-trip started with building a little application called “WSPluginSwitcher“, which is a Cocoa based tool for switching Flash plug-ins on OS X (Leopard).
Xtrace is a popular debugger console on OS X for logging your trace() data outside the Flash IDE. For easier handling I decided to write an extension for Zeroi that keeps your standard trace() methods in your code.
AFTERTHOUGHT is an amazing tool for debugging Flash movies, but it runs only on Windows and it needs .NET runtime. It seems that a Mac version will be available soon but you won’t need it. Because OS X provides a suite of developer tools such as Console which you can view the message logs of your Flash Debug Player in real time as well. If you are familiar with Terminal, you’ll optimize your debugging session as Mark Llobrera commented on Mark Walters’ Blog.
As Josh Buhler and Mark Walters described it’s simple to log the trace() outputs of a SWF file running in Browser. If you familiar with Terminal you can also log the trace()-methods by using the Unix command tail.