I do usually chat to Macromedia about this sort of stuff before I implement it.
Often they can't give me a definitive answer on whether it will be implemented or not because it hasn't been decided yet. In that case I usually hold off until I'm fairly sure they won't. No point in me doing work they're already on top of, but it does help if I understand what people might want before asking them if it's likely to happen. Spike On 10/27/05, Judah Frangipane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm all for making plugins and updates to FB but if this is a huge > upgrade you might want to submit your feature requests to > labs.macromedia.com <http://labs.macromedia.com> first. They released FB2 > as alpha so that the Flash > community could talk about what needs to be added. I'm not sure how open > MM will be about this but you can ask them if they have this feature in > the plan IMHO. > > Judah > > Spike wrote: > > >On 10/27/05, Mike Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>>Not totally sure what you mean by that... > >>> > >>> > >>Map symbols to classes via some kind of package explorer wizard: if you > >>create a movieclip in Flash, it goes into the Flash Library as a symbol. > >>When you right-click this new symbol in the Library and choose > >>'properties' > >>you'll see a wizard in which you can associate the symbol with an > >>actionscript class. It would be nice to have the same capability in this > >>hypothetical Library plugin for Eclipse, only you can surf to the class > >>and > >>choose it instead of having to write 'com.arp.blah.blah...'. > >> > >> > > > > > > > >ok, I think I see what you mean now. > > > >I'll wait and see what happens when Flash authoring gets update for AS 3 > and > >Flash 8.5. My understanding is that everything will be a class and that > >symbols won't really exist any more. > > > >I can look at picking apart .swc files and seeing how much of that I can > >display. I did that already for the Flex 1.5 framework, so I know quite a > >bit about what's going on in there, it's just a question of how much it's > >changed since then. > > > > > > > >>2. Import existing Libraries from Flash and maintain symbols' package > >>paths > >> > >> > >>>Existing libraries in what format? > >>> > >>> > >>A designer creates a new Flash file and creates the visual interface. > >>He/she > >>arranges his native Flash IDE Library, naming symbols and such. A > >>developer > >>then goes into Eclipse and from this hypothetical plugin can import that > >>native Flash Library. > >> > >> > > > > > >ok, in what format is the library saved from the Flash IDE? > > > >.fla, .swf or .swc > > > >.swc is by far the easiest to deal with, but that doesn't help if there > are > >.swf files inside. > > > >It will be possible to run an instance of the flash player inside the > >library plugin, so that would allow display of .swf assets. > > > >.fla files would be the trickiest of the lot and I'm inclined to say that > >it's probably better not to bother since they need to be turned into > either > >a .swf or .swc to use them in a project anyhow. > > > > > > > >>There may be issues with components/EULA. > >> > >> > >>>yep, will need to look into that > >>> > >>> > >>This is keeping people from sharing source and that is bad. Can't they > >>just > >>open source the components? Come on! (Bangs fist on keyboard.) > >> > >> > > > > > >heheheh > > > >Yeah, dammit! > > > >and while they're at it, I'll have a copy of the flash paper source so I > can > >sort out this text table problem I'm struggling with. > > > >Mike > > > > > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Flashcoders mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >-- > >-------------------------------------------- > >Stephen Milligan > >Do you do the Badger? > >http://www.yellowbadger.com > > > >Do you cfeclipse? http://www.cfeclipse.org > >_______________________________________________ > >Flashcoders mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- -------------------------------------------- Stephen Milligan Do you do the Badger? http://www.yellowbadger.com Do you cfeclipse? http://www.cfeclipse.org _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
