It’s that time again already. Macromedia are actively monitoring the community and looking to their customers for suggestions on what features we still think is missing, or could be improved in the next full release of Flash Authoring, codenamed Blaze.
Tomas van der Haase of Macromedia QA has put out an official request on the [ExtendFlash] mailing list for customers to share their wishlists for Flash Extensibility. Use the comments below or post on the list, the top 3 things you would like to do with JSFL which currently are not possible, or are possible, just not gracefully.
Tomas also notes that soon Development Resources in the engineering team will be spoken for (booked out) and changes will become harder and harder to get into the final product, the longer you wait. So now’s your chance, wish away.
Ill start it off, with my wishlist:
- Ability to define our own Filter Effects and have them show up in the Filters panel, a filter can be a jsfl script that is executed when it is added to the list of filters for the selected instance. This would require changes in the player to support custom filters.
- Ability to create a new document based on a template .fla programmatically.
- JSFL Event Model, that amongst other things, will call a specified function in any jsfl scripts that have registered to be told about events. Lots of events, applicationStart, applicationClose, documentOpen, documentClose, documentFocus, frameRemoved, newFrame, newLayer, layerRemoved, actionsChanged…. the list is endless.
Check it out.