xJSFL

Hey fried,

Did all your code paste in correctly there? Sometimes TinyMCE editor pastes in HTML when it should be text. Take a look and I will happily help you optimise what you have :)

Sorry the docs are not currently finished. This is top of the list at the moment but real life keeps getting in the way!

Hi Dave,

thanks for the speedy reply.

I have cleaned up the code. Up to this point, everything works. It opens the XFL file, changes the compression settings of the bitmaps in the library, saves the file as an .fla and publishes the swf file. I still need to convert the bitmaps on stage to movieclips, and this is where I've hit a brick wall, because they are nested.

Any help would be great!!

Thank you.

*Edit* On lines 58-60, TinyMCE seems to have removed the tags in the code.

Feel free to email me a file, or maybe upload a Gist if would make it easier

Email sent.

thank you.

Hey Fred,

Here's my (commented) rework of your code:

xjsfl.init(this, ['Utils', 'URI']);
clear();

// callback functions
	function convertToSymbol(element)
	{
		var name	= element.libraryItem.shortName;
		$selection	= element;
		$dom.convertToSymbol('movie clip', name, 'top left');
	}
	
	function processItem()
	{
		$timeline.addNewLayer('actions');
		Context.create().frame.actionScript = '// import classes.*;\n';
		$(':bitmap').each(convertToSymbol);
	}
	
// process
	function process(uris)
	{
		// variables
			var processed	= [];
			
		// process
			for each(var uri in uris)
			{
				// debug
					format('Opening "{uri}" ...', uri);
					
				// process
					var doc	= fl.openDocument(uri);
					if(doc)
					{
						// rename the clip on stage
							$("*").rename("spread");
							
						// update bitmaps
							$$(':bitmap')
								.move('/assets/bitmaps/')
								.attr('compressionType', 'photo');
		
						// update the main movieclip
							$$('Spread_1').exec(processItem);
							
						// move newly created movieclips
							$$(':movieclip:not(Spread_1)').move('/assets/movieclips/')
							
						// file name variables
							var docName				= 'youth_' + String(processed.length + 1).pad(2, 0) + '.fla';
							var swfPath				= '../swf/' + docName.replace('.fla', '.swf');
							var flaURI				= new URI('fla/' + docName);
							
						// save file
							format('Saving "{uri}" ...', flaURI.path);
							fl.saveDocument($dom, flaURI);
							
						// publish
							var profile				= new PublishProfile();
							profile.file.flashPath	= swfPath;
							profile.file.html		= false;
							document.publish();
							
						// close
							fl.saveDocument($dom);
							fl.closeDocument($dom);
							
						// add path to processed list
							processed.push(flaURI.path);
					}
			}
			
		// debug
			inspect(processed, 'The following file(s) were created');
	}

// variables
	var assetPath	= 'assets/';
	var flaPath		= 'swf/';

// various ways to get files
	var uris		= Utils.glob(assetPath + '*.xfl');
	var files		= new Folder(assetPath).filter('*.xfl');
	var uriList		= new URIList(assetPath + '*.xfl');
	
// main
	process(uris);

FYI, my folder structure is:

/Test
	/assets
		/Youth_3.xfl
	/fla
		/youth_01.fla
	/swf
		/youth_01.swf
	/youth_3.jsfl

Things to note:

• Much less use of functions
• More elegant ways to get a list of URIs
• Use of collection method attr() to update item properties
• Use of collection.move() to tidy the library
• Nesting handled in processitem() and convertToSymbol()
• Use of new PublishProfile class

I may actually update PublishProfile so you can hand the .fla filename in, then have it automatically update the correct swf extension.

FYI, if you don't need the DOM in a particular operation (adding a script to frame, for example) you don't need to edit or exec() items. You can simply just reference the item's timeline (this is better performance-wise with lots of clips):

function processItem(item)
{
    var index = item.timeline.addNewLayer('actions');
    item.timeline.layers[index].frames[0].actionScript = '// import classes.*;\n';    // etc...
}
collection.each(processItem);

Also, there's no need to do a find and replace on a string of XML as you can just create an XML instance and set the values directly using dot-notation.

Hope that helps anyway!

Thanks Dave, much appreciated. 

The code I created a few months back was working perfectly. Will definitely look at implementing this for perfomance and better codeing practices though.

xJSFL has cut our workload by almmost 80% :D Takes care of all the all the repetitive tasks.

Congratulations on the release!!

Hey, that's great news! You'll find another mail in your in box. Would love to know more about that :)