Re: Developing "actions" for Flash

[John Dowdell]

At 2:12 PM 6/30/98, Gemberling, Bruce wrote:

> Is there any software that can be used to develop "Actions"

> similar to those used in Photoshop for Flash3?


I don't think so. The "Actions" in Flash are things that happen when you

click on a button, while the "Actions" in Photoshop are more like macros

that drive the program itself.


Flash has no built-in automation. It may be possible to drive it through

some type of system-level macro utility, although I haven't heard of anyone

pursuing that path yet myself.


(Background: MacOS 6 and the later Windows 3.1 both had types of macro

recorders, that could watch what you did in an application and later repeat

it on demand. Third-party utilities such as QuicKeys or FaceSpan took this

to further degree. The system-level control mechanisms today are

AppleScript and Visual Basic for Applications.)


But what is it that you're actually trying to do? It may be possible to

load a level, or use the Flash Generator, or some such instead.


jd





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