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This is something I am working on, not quite finished, but it is coming along nicely.
Basically the issue is that you can’t always trust that you will be viewing your precious SWF on a computer that has one of the awesome trace programs installed [ example ]. So I have my oops.as! It is an old class that I am rebuilding. The original had error checking built in, and I might eventually put dynamic error reporting in this one down the line, but I wanted to show the basic idea. You can see a live example here [ testTube ].

Code is called like this:

// ---- OOPS (traces out to text box)
import com.drpunchlogic.oops;

// OOPS
public var _oops:oops; // TRACE CLASS
public var _say:Function;

// add to stage
_oops = new oops();
_oops.x = 260;
_oops.y = 260;
addChild( _oops );
_say = _oops.say;
_say( "\t[ OOPS! ]" );

Code after the jump

package com.drpunchlogic
{
/*
-------------------------------------------------
	INCLUDE STUFF
-------------------------------------------------
*/
	// display objects
	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.display.Graphics;

	// standard events
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
	import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
	import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;

	// error checking
	import flash.events.ErrorEvent;
	import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
	import flash.errors.IOError;
	import flash.errors.MemoryError;

	// text field stuff
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFieldType;
	import flash.text.TextFormat;
    import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
    import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
	import flash.text.StyleSheet;

	// TweenMax
	import com.greensock.*;
	import com.greensock.easing.*;

	public class oops extends MovieClip
	{
// START --------------------------

/*
-------------------------------------------------
	SHARED VARIABLES
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		private var _str:String;
		private var _log:String = ''; 

		public var 	_oops:MovieClip; // the container
		private var _tf:TextField;
		private var _msk:Sprite; // masks the text field for the scroll
		private var _ps:punchSlider;

/*
-------------------------------------------------
	OOPS!
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		public function oops( ) : void
		{
			trace( "[ OOPS! ]" );
			addTF( 4, 330, 360, 260 );

			// alert that keys are pressed
			// addEventListener( KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyHandler );
		}
/*
-------------------------------------------------
	oops.say
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		public function say( str:String , num:Number = 0 ) : void
		{
			trace( num, "\t" ,str );

			switch( num )
			{
				// error
				case( 1 ):
					_log += '<font color="#CC0000">' + str + '</font>\n';
					break;
				// info
				case( 2 ):
					_log += '<font color="#006600">' + str + '</font>\n';
					break;
				// url
				case( 3 ):
					_log += '<font color="#0066CC">' + str + '</font>\n';
					break;
				// event
				case( 4 ):
					_log += '<font color="#8000FF">' + str + '</font>\n';
					break;
				// not error
				default:
					_log += str + '\n';
					break;
			}

			_tf.htmlText = _log;

			if( _tf.height > _msk.height ) punchMod();

			// check depth
			//oopsDepth();
		}
/*
-------------------------------------------------
	CREATE TEXTFIELD
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		private function addTF( _x:Number, _y:Number, _w:Number, _h:Number ) : void
		{
           trace( "[ OOPS: addTF ]" );

		   // add the container
			_oops = new MovieClip();
			_oops.name = "OOPS";

			_oops.x = _x;
			_oops.y = _y;

			// format the text
			var styleObj:Object = new Object();
			var newStyle:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();

            styleObj.fontWeight = "bold";
            styleObj.color = "#666666";
            newStyle.setStyle(".defStyle", styleObj);

			// add the textfield
			_tf = new TextField();
			_tf.name = "tf";

			_tf.multiline = true;
			_tf.selectable = false;

			_tf.width = _w;
			_tf.height = _h + 20;
			_tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

			//_tf.background = true;
			//_tf.backgroundColor = 0xdbdbdb;
			_tf.styleSheet = newStyle;

			_tf.htmlText = clrTXT();

			// add the mask
			_msk = new MovieClip();
			_msk.name = "tf_msk";

			_msk.graphics.lineStyle( 1, 0xff0000, 0.5, true );
			_msk.graphics.beginFill(0xff0000, 0.3);
			_msk.graphics.moveTo( 0,0 );
			_msk.graphics.lineTo( 0, _h );
			_msk.graphics.lineTo( _w, _h );
			_msk.graphics.lineTo( _w, 0 );
			_msk.graphics.lineTo( 0, 0 );

			// mask out the textfield
			_tf.mask = _msk;

			// add vert slider
			_ps = new punchSlider();
			_ps.x = _w + 20;
			_ps.y = 0;

			punchMod();

			// add to stage
			addChild(_oops);
			_oops.addChild(_tf);
			_oops.addChild(_msk);
			_oops.addChild(_ps);

			// hide until you are ready
			//showhideTXT();

			trace( "[ OOPS: added ]" );
        }
// Modify PunchSlider
		public function punchMod() : void
		{
			/*
				as the text box grows,
				we will need to modify
				the slider to fit
			*/
			_ps.init( _oops, _msk, _tf, true );
			_ps.visible = true;
		}

/*
-------------------------------------------------
	SHOW/HIDE TEXT
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		private function showhideTXT() : void
		{
			//( _oops.visible ) ? _oops.visible = false : _oops.visible = true;
			( _oops.x == 4 ) ? TweenLite.to(_oops, 1, {x:404}) : TweenLite.to(_oops, 1, {x:4});
		}
/*
-------------------------------------------------
	CLEAR TEXT
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		public function clrTXT() : String
		{
			//_log = helpTXT();
			_log = '';
			var txt:String = _log ; // clears the log and sets default
			return txt;
		}
/*
-------------------------------------------------
	HELP
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		private function helpTXT() : String
		{
			var txt:String;

			txt = '"<font color="#FF3300">[</font>" <font color="#666666">clear</font>';
			txt += ' \t ';
			txt += '"<font color="#FF3300">]</font>" <font color="#666666">show/hide</font>';
			txt += '\n';

			return txt;
		}
/*
-------------------------------------------------
	KEY PRESSED
-------------------------------------------------
*/
	private function keyHandler( e:KeyboardEvent ):void
	{
		var key:Number = e.keyCode;

		trace("[ " + key + " ]");

		switch( key )
		{
			case( 219 ):
				say( clrTXT() );
				break;
			case( 221 ):
				showhideTXT();
				break;
		}
	}
/*
-------------------------------------------------
	SWAPDEPTHS
-------------------------------------------------
*/
		public function oopsDepth( A:Number, B:Number ) : void
		{
			//var A:Number = _oops.parent.getChildIndex( this._oops );
			//var B:Number = _oops.parent.numChildren -1;

			if( A < B ) swapChildrenAt( A,B );
		}
// FINISHED ----------------------------
	}
}

Tagged oops!, sofa king, trace