imekul
07-04-2008, 08:21 AM
I'm somewhat new to Flash 8 Pro, and I'm trying to figure out a good work approach for saving different revisions of my FLA files.
My default routine would be to simply do a "Save As" whenever I make a significant change, and I would eventually end up with file1-1.fla, file1-2.fla, file1-3.fla, and so on.
The problem with this, aside from ending up with many, many, files, is I have to manually do it. And sometimes, I may go a while before saving a new copy of the file, and then I end up breaking something in the process, and I have trouble pinpointing where I went wrong.
So I would love to be able to easily revert to my last save, or to be able to jump back 10 or 20 saves ago. And it would be even better if this would all be done automatically, just by me hitting Ctrl + S (or File -> Save).
I suppose my dream solution would be if Flash automatically, upon me hitting Ctrl + S, would create file1-v1.0.fla, then file-1v1.0.1.fla, then file-1v1.0.2.fla -- that type of thing. What would be even sweeter is if somehow the arbitrary version number (or build number?) that Flash comes up with could be a variable inside of Flash. That way, I can display the version/build number when playing the SWF.
Any ideas would be appreciated! The main goal is to come with an automatic system for taking snapshots, if you will. And icing on the cake would be if it could automatically give the files incrementing names, and also have that same number accessible as a variable.
Thanks. :-)
Luke
My default routine would be to simply do a "Save As" whenever I make a significant change, and I would eventually end up with file1-1.fla, file1-2.fla, file1-3.fla, and so on.
The problem with this, aside from ending up with many, many, files, is I have to manually do it. And sometimes, I may go a while before saving a new copy of the file, and then I end up breaking something in the process, and I have trouble pinpointing where I went wrong.
So I would love to be able to easily revert to my last save, or to be able to jump back 10 or 20 saves ago. And it would be even better if this would all be done automatically, just by me hitting Ctrl + S (or File -> Save).
I suppose my dream solution would be if Flash automatically, upon me hitting Ctrl + S, would create file1-v1.0.fla, then file-1v1.0.1.fla, then file-1v1.0.2.fla -- that type of thing. What would be even sweeter is if somehow the arbitrary version number (or build number?) that Flash comes up with could be a variable inside of Flash. That way, I can display the version/build number when playing the SWF.
Any ideas would be appreciated! The main goal is to come with an automatic system for taking snapshots, if you will. And icing on the cake would be if it could automatically give the files incrementing names, and also have that same number accessible as a variable.
Thanks. :-)
Luke