Rob’s geeky discoveries Blog

 SVN is incredibly useful but as a Flash Developer,  the large binary files I am checking in stop me using the full functionality of the visual diff’s between files. That’s why I really like this concept by Pavel Simakov & extended by Alex Hart which uses JSFL to parse the DOM model of the FLA and export it as XML. You can then use Visual diff on the xml text doc and it will give you useful information about what has changed across the two version including in FLA scripts and MovieClip names:

 http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/howtotrackchangesinflashmoviesusingjsfl

I’m sure it’s possible to automate this into the compile process in the same manner in which Flash generates .txt reports from the bandwidth profiler for optimization so that every project would have an associated XML DOM doc in case you needed to track such changes. Hope this is useful to someone and nice one to the authors

Found a great JSFL tool to automatically convert any Fireworks style filters applied within Flash to AS… http://durej.com/?p=29

Could be very useful so thought I’d share. Was originally looking for 9-slice scaling stuff and found this excellent resource page with a nice way of scaling PNG’s to 9 slice for buttons/UI elements. The AS2 version is at http://durej.com/?p=59

The AS3 one can be found with our friends over at Byte Array http://www.bytearray.org/?p=118