Global Error Handler for Flash Player 10.1 not working

Question

Trying to implement the new FP 10.1 Global error handler into my projects but no matter what I do any uncaught error will still show up the Exception window (both in debug a

Answer 1

The docs say that:

The UncaughtErrorEvents object that dispatches the event is associated with either a LoaderInfo object or a Loader object.

Thus you must listen to the loaderInfo's uncaughtErrorEvents property of your topmost display object:

loaderInfo.uncaughtErrorEvents.addEventListener(UncaughtErrorEvent.UNCAUGHT_ERROR, uncaughtErrorHandler);