Did you try turning on the telemetry flag in the SWF to see if that enables that API?
FWIW, if you are writing an AIR app, I suppose you could create a NativeExtension? -Alex On 12/10/15, 6:40 PM, "jude" <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: >Scout is more for developers when you have access to the running instance. >I'm looking for something the customer can use at runtime on a non debug >instance. > >I found this mysterious property while I was looking for memory usage in >flash.system.System: > >flash.system.System.processCPUUsage(); > >But I can't find any documentation on it and it returns 0. I think I can >write a pretty efficient app but zero CPU is just wishful thinking. > > > >On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Jason Taylor <ja...@dedoose.com> wrote: > >> isn't that what Scout is for? turn on advanced telemetry and pop open >> adobe scout >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 3:49 PM >> To: dev@flex.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Is there a API for CPU usage of an app? >> >> I don't know of any way to get that from Flash. >> >> On 12/10/15, 2:23 PM, "jude" <flexcapaci...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Is there a API for checking the CPU usage of my AIR app (or Flex)? It's >> >been suggested to check the FPS and see if they drop but that's not >> >what I'm looking for. >> > >> >Background: >> >I was sitting with someone who was using an app I wrote and it was >> >going really slow. It was not a brand new computer. But I wanted to >> >know if it was my app. Because the laptop was in front of me I could >> >open Task Manager >> >(PC) or Activity Monitor (Mac) and check but I'm not always going to >> >have that convenience. So if I'm able to check periodically my app CPU >> >usage and it is hitting 100% or more than a threshold I can, from >> >within the app, check what process is going on or what the activity the >> >user is doing. >> >>
