JSFLHelper class

[BigP]

Hi to all JSFL lovers :)

I just recently joined this group, hoping to find more developers
sharing the same opinion about JSFL. It RULEZ! But it can get tricky
when trying to implement your very own custom Flash Panels.... am I
right? or am I right? K maybe I'm wrong to some, but here's an idea I
would like to toss to everyone....

JSFLHelper - This would be an actionscript class that helps you
develop Flash custom Panels that interacts with the DOM object (which
JSFL is based on).

So instead of dealing with any of these:

[code]
var currentFrame:String =
MMExecute("fl.getDocumentDOM().getTimeline().currentFrame;");
trace( currentFrame ); //outputs: 1 (or whatever currentFrame you're
on! )
[/code]

... at least I think that would be the correct syntax to get to the
current frame of your current timeline!?

Now... with JSFLHelper:

[code]
var myCurrentTimeline:JSTimeline = JSTimeline.currentTimeline();
trace( myCurrentTimeline.currentFrame ); //outputs: 1 (again... or
whatever!!!)
trace( myCurrentTimeline.frames[ myCurrentTimeline.currentFrame ].label ); //
Hmm... look it even stored all the frames and their labels! Neato ;)
[/code]

I actually have a lot of this currently working, but its typically a
"I develop these getters / setters and methods as I go, need, want....
feel like." etc.

So I would certainly appreciate any other's interest, suggestions or
even collaboration on this. If you know of something similar thats
already out there, please save me from wasting any more keystrokes!
lol.

Thanks!

[Quentin]

Hi!
I've started this a while back (March 2005!) but never had time to
finish it...
If you want you can have a look into this:

http://daspblog.canalblog.com/archives/2005/03/07/362798.html
http://dasp.free.fr/more/jsfl.zip
http://dasp.free.fr/more/utils/

I hope this helps!
Quentin.
http://toki-woki.net

[Pierre Chamberlain]

Merci beaucoup :)

Yeah this definitly looks like where I was heading lol. Thank you so much, this saves me from re-creating the wheel!

I'm currently working on a Flash Panel that will help animators (namely... those that I am working with at the studio lol) automate some of their repetitive tasks.

I've been approached by one of my coworkers and he asked if it was possible to have Flash automatically read some text-input... and have it properly assign the Polyphones / Phonemes (I don't know whats the real word for it... anyways... the syllables of each words if you will) to express the correct mouth articulations on their character. This would help them tremendously to cut down on Lip-sync animation.

I showed them something I whipped up in a couple of days and they were already blown away by the possibilities this brings.

Do you by any chance have experience on producing JSFL extensions and sell it? I would like to consider the idea of making some $$$ off of this concept once I have it running smoothly.

-Pierre C
http://pierrechamberlain.ca

[Quentin]

You're welcome!
I wrote tools ans panels with JSFL but never sold them. It all was for
internal use!
If you're looking for someone selling extensions (panels) to ask him
questions, Grant Skinner does it (http://www.gskinner.com/products/
panelpack1/).

I hope this helps!
Quentin.

On Aug 31, 5:24 pm, Pierre Chamberlain <chamberlai...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Merci beaucoup :)
> Yeah this definitly looks like where I was heading lol. Thank you so much, this saves me from re-creating the wheel!
> I'm currently working on a Flash Panel that will help animators (namely... those that I am working with at the studio lol) automate some of their repetitive tasks.
> I've been approached by one of my coworkers and he asked if it was possible to have Flash automatically read some text-input... and have it properly assign the Polyphones / Phonemes (I don't know whats the real word for it... anyways... the syllables of each words if you will) to express the correct mouth articulations on their character. This would help them tremendously to cut down on Lip-sync animation.
> I showed them something I whipped up in a couple of days and they were already blown away by the possibilities this brings.
> Do you by any chance have experience on producing JSFL extensions and sell it? I would like to consider the idea of making some $$$ off of this concept once I have it running smoothly.

> -Pierre Chttp://pierrechamberlain.ca
> Quentin wrote:Hi! I've started this a while back (March 2005!) but never had time to finish it... If you want you can have a look into this:http://daspblog.canalblog.com/archives/2005/03/07/362798.htmlhttp://dasp.free.fr/more/jsfl.ziphttp://dasp.free.fr/more/utils/I hope this helps! Quentin.http://toki-woki.netOn Aug 30, 9:10 pm, BigP<chamberlai...@gmail.com>wrote:Hi to all JSFL lovers :) I just recently joined this group, hoping to find more developers sharing the same opinion about JSFL. It RULEZ! But it can get tricky when trying to implement your very own custom Flash Panels.... am I right? or am I right? K maybe I'm wrong to some, but here's an idea I would like to toss to everyone.... JSFLHelper - This would be an actionscript class that helps you develop Flash custom Panels that interacts with the DOM object (which JSFL is based on). So instead of dealing with any of these: [code] var currentFrame:String = MMExecute("fl.getDocumentDOM().getTimeline().currentFrame;"); trace( currentFrame ); //outputs: 1 (or whatever currentFrame you're on! ) [/code] ... at least I think that would be the correct syntax to get to the current frame of your current timeline!? Now... with JSFLHelper: [code] var myCurrentTimeline:JSTimeline =      JSTimeline.currentTimeline(); trace( myCurrentTimeline.currentFrame ); //outputs: 1 (again... or whatever!!!) trace( myCurrentTimeline.frames[ myCurrentTimeline.currentFrame ].label ); // Hmm... look it even stored all the frames and their labels! Neato ;) [/code] I actually have a lot of this currently working, but its typically a "I develop these getters / setters and methods as I go, need, want.... feel like." etc. So I would certainly appreciate any other's interest, suggestions or even collaboration on this. If you know of something similar thats already out there, please save me from wasting any more keystrokes! lol. Thanks!