Console not showing trace statement output

Question

Hello,
I have set up Flash Builder 4.6 for the first time for an ActionScript project. All good so far except that the console window doesn't show the output from my simple trace statement for my first little Hello World tester? There wasn't a console window on the workspace so I added one but on Run it says
No consoles to display at this time.
What do I need to do?
Any help much appreciated...
Steve

Answer 1

I don't see any attempt to assign text to any textfields in your code.  What code are you using that is not working? Where would you be trying to assign to these textfields in your code?  You need to create two textfields and give them instance names.  Then, in your code, you assign the x and y values to those textfeilds...
tFieldX.text = String(mCoordPlane.mAlignment.x);
tFieldY.text = String(mCoordPlane.mAlignment.y);
I also don't see any code relative to checking the position of the mCoordPlane.mAlignment to show a message.  After that object changes position you should have a conditional to test if its x,y properties are 0,0, and then assign to a textfield for that message or make a moviewclip appear that has that message, or whatever your intention is for displaying a message.
if(mCoordPlane.mAlignment.x == 0 && mCoordPlane.mAlignment.y == 0){
     messageField.text = "aligned";
You may end up having issues with accuracy regarding geting a zero value since you are operating with decimal value changes... meaning you may not get exactly 0,0 values.
Also, in the code you showed there is unnecessary repetition of these lines...
        trace(mCoordPlane.mAlignment.x);
        trace(mCoordPlane.mAlignment.y);
If each conditional includes it, then you only need to have it once at the end after the conditionals