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JSFL reference available

JSFL is the new scripting language that enables programmers to add to the FMX04 UI. New tools, commands, behaviors and more can be created using this JavaScript-like language.

Macromedia has not yet released any documentation for the JSFL script language, so the Flash community steps in. Steve Webster have extracted the docs available and put them into an unofficial online help file that should be really helpful when creating extensions to FMX04.

Tip: Whatever happened to the Scale and Rotate-dialogue you may wonder? "Macromedia removed it just to annoy you" some will say. Most any Flash artist use this function several times a day, so our guess is that the removal of the dialogue must have been a programming accident. Now there's a fix available and it's a great example of using JSFL that can be downloaded from this page. Just copy the files made by Ze Fernando to the appropriate directories and setup the shortcut to have the good old dialogue back.

Another cool use of JSFL is the 3D Cube-tool made by Keith Peters and there's also several commercial extensions available from the Macromedia store.
Click here to open the reference

Written by Jens C Brynildsen (September 21st 2003)