Category: Flash

Oke I’m getting into it, after comment trace JSFL and uncomment trace JSFL I created another trace related JSFL command.

It’s a extension on a trace that really says nothing;
you are testing the code you just written
trace (thisVar);
but you really want to:
trace ('thisVar: ' + thisVar);

And now you can: change the first trace into the second, more readable trace with just one click

How to install:
Save [mck] Readable trace.jsfl in the jsfl commands folder or just use the installer:

Read more about the Extension Manager

Limitation:

• Only in one frame
• When you use in the Action (F9) panel, the ‘pin active script’ to pin a couple of frames with actionscript, it doesn’t work

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Any requests?

Oke I did the damage, I will fix it….

In my previous post about comment trace JSFL I made it possible to comment all traces in a actionscript frame.
Well now I’ve made a JSFL command to make it possible to undo that.

Example:
// trace ("something");
becomes
trace ("something");

How to install:
Save [mck] UnComment trace.jsfl in the jsfl commands folder or just use the installer:

Read more about the Extension Manager

Limitation:
(it has the same limitations as [mck] Comment trace)

• Only in one frame
• When you use in the Action (F9) panel, the ‘pin active script’ to pin a couple of frames with actionscript, it doesn’t work
• words with trace in it… example var traceThis = "foo";
• Will not Uncomment block comment (/* ….. * / )

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Any requests?

Do you recognize the following situation?
You have to change a small thing in a FLA that colleague / freelancer made.
So you open the FLA export it, and the output window get filled with numbers, variables, booleans and other trace comments…

Of course you know that a trace should be removed after it did what you put it in for, but not everybody knows that.
So you decide to remove the traces in the actionScript layer:

1. CTRL + F (find)
2. Type in Find what: “trace (“
3. and type in Replace with: “// trace (“
4. press Replace button

or

1. Commands
2. [mck] Comment trace

(you can even give a command a keyboard shortcut)

It’s one of the features that I love from SE|PY, the AS-editor I’m using when I’m not scripting in the Flash IDE editor.

How to install:
Save [mck] Comment trace in the jsfl commands folder or just use the installer

Read more about the Extension Manager

Limitation:

• Only in one frame
• When you use in the Action (F9) panel, the ‘pin active script’ to pin a couple of frames with actionscript, it doesn’t work
• words with trace in it… example var traceThis = "foo";

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Any requests?

I recently started to get interested in JavaScript Flash (JSFL) and I’m really impressed with its ‘power’.
As the title says: it extents the Adobe Flash authoring environment: you can add commands, new tools / panels, behaviour, actions, templates, and much more. You can make Flash do stuff it can’t do out of the box.

The Flash JavaScript application programming interface (JavaScript API) is a complementary programming tool that lets you create scripts that run in the authoring environment.

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There some things you need to know, and this post will explain some of them, and will be used by me in other post about extending Flash (so I have to explain it once):

• Commands
• Flash panels
• Adobe Extension Manager

Commands

Commands can be found in the Flash under Commands (seems obvious..)

I will post the commands here without a installer so you can learn from it.
But this file can also be used and copied in the correct folder it will work.
Commands can be placed in the correct folder, and can be used without restarting.

So right mouse button (save file… ) and save/copy the file to the command folder.
Flash 8

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\[language]\Configuration\Commands

Flash CS3:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\[language]\Configuration\Commands

Flash panels

Flash panels are mostly .SWF with scripts that only work in the Flash authoring environment.
I will post the .FLA and everything else needed to get the SWF working also on this blog. But I can’t promise that it will be educational, but I will try to clean up the files where I can.
The Flash Panels can be found under “Window” >> “Other Panels“.

A Flash panel can be installed manually, but you will need a restart before you can use it. But once you installed it and restarted Flash you can modify the SWF as much as you want.

Flash 8

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\[language]\Configuration\WindowSWF

Flash CS3:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\[language]\Configuration\WindowSWF

Adobe Extension Manager

To install any of the extensions (.MXP – files) I’ve created you will need a Adobe Extension Manager, it’s free and you can install older versions in case you’re working with Flash MX of Flash 8.
And at least Macromedia Flash MX 2004 but I’m working with Adobe Flash CS3 and I test my scripts in Flash 8.

Once you have the Extension Manager installed you only have to download the MXP files and double click it or use the install on the Extension Manager.

Creative Commons License

And, as most of my work here, it’s licensed under Creative Commons License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.