FB Debug application loaded with SWFLoader

Question

I am fairly new to flex builder, I am working on a fairly
large project that has many pages. To reduce the application sizes,
I have created seperate applications for each type of user. The
login page then loads the appropiate application useing SWFLoader.
When I try to debug the application by setting a breakpoint within
my application and start the login page, my breakpoint never
breaks. Does anyone know anything about this, or how I would debug
an application loaded this way. Just a note, I cannot run the
loaded application without the login applicaiton being loaded
first. The login app contains data that the secondary application
needs.

Answer 1

Most likely the issue here is that the SWF that you are
loading with the <SWFLoader> tag was not built for debugging.
E.g. say you have a project called MyComponent, and then the
main project called MyApp. Inside MyApp.mxml you have this:
<mx:SWFLoader source="MyComponent.swf" />
And presumably you manually copied MyComponent.swf from
MyComponent/bin into the MyApp project. Well, the MyComponent
project built two versions of the SWF: MyComponent.swf, which is
the release version, and MyComponent-debug.swf, which is the debug
version.
So if you need to debug it, you'll have to copy
MyComponent-debug.swf over to the MyApp project. To get it to load
with the SWFLoader tag, you'll either need to temporarily change
the filename in the SWFLoader tag to refer to
MyComponent-debug.swf, or else rename the debug SWF to the release
filename of MyComponent.swf.
Unfortunately there is no automated workflow to have
SWFLoader detect whether it is running debug or release, and load a
different SWF.