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How many times have you wished you could filter as you type in the Library? How much time would it save you, especially on larger projects with lots of assets, if you could type "dog" and see all asset names (or a subset, depending on symbol type) that contain the word "dog" in it? What if you weren't limited by the asset name but could search by Linkage ID and linked Class Name too? And, when you'd found a number of assets, how cool would it be if you could select a number of them and change the classes they were linked in one go? Pipe dream? It used to be, but no longer, thanks to Xavi Beumala's Advanced Library for Flash (Alf) -- an open source Flash IDE extension that lets you do all these things and more.
If you use Arp or otherwise use a workflow that relies on the linking of movie clips to classes, you will find the ability to change the linked classes of multiple assets to be a huge productivity feature while refactoring your Flash application. The coolest thing is that Xavi added this feature just yesterday, almost immediately after I mentioned how useful it would be to have it. Something tells me that Xavi is going to be doing a great job of supporting and enhancing Alf in the future and, since it's open source and JSFL, there's no reason why we can't all join in on the effort and help him out! :)
I've been sitting through Bill Gate's keynote for the last 45 minutes and, so far, it's somewhat of a history lesson.
It appears that they're really excited about the Yahoo Widgets-style tool that will be available in Vista. But... umm... Yahoo Widgets! :)
I flew into Las Vegas yesterday to attend Mix '06. Sitting at the keynote, listening to Bill Gates at the moment.
This made the rounds recently but in case you missed it, Adobe is recommending that all users upgrade to the 8.0.24 player. It fixes a critical security issue in players 8.0.22 and lower that could allow the use of a malicious SWF (don't you just love that phrase?) to take control of the affected computer.
I just updated the blog to use Geoff Stearns' excellent FlashObject system. I decided this morning that I had put off the five minutes it would take to implement the change for far too long.
FlashObject is the neatest way I know of embedding Flash in a web page. Why? Here's why :)
How many times have you wished you could filter as you type in the Library? How much time would it save you, especially on larger projects with lots of assets, if you could type "dog" and see all asset names (or a subset, depending on symbol type) that contain the word "dog" in it? What if you weren't limited by the asset name but could search by Linkage ID and linked Class Name too? And, when you'd found a number of assets, how cool would it be if you could select a number of them and change the classes they were linked in one go? Pipe dream? It used to be, but no longer, thanks to Xavi Beumala's Advanced Library for Flash (Alf) -- an open source Flash IDE extension that lets you do all these things and more.
If you use Arp or otherwise use a workflow that relies on the linking of movie clips to classes, you will find the ability to change the linked classes of multiple assets to be a huge productivity feature while refactoring your Flash application. The coolest thing is that Xavi added this feature just yesterday, almost immediately after I mentioned how useful it would be to have it. Something tells me that Xavi is going to be doing a great job of supporting and enhancing Alf in the future and, since it's open source and JSFL, there's no reason why we can't all join in on the effort and help him out! :)