Actionscript and the History Panel.... :(

[Ledge]

I am having problems with Actionscript and the new History Panel. Why even have a history panel if it doesn't record everything that goes on? Namely why doesn't it record actionscript? I hope it is just a bug that they will fix SOON. There should also be a way to assign those commands you can create with the History Panel to Keyboard shortcuts, just like in Homesite with the code snippets.

Or am I just missing a setting that lets the AS show up that I change in the history Panel?

[senocular]

The actions panel works on a different undo system than the rest of the authoring environment (i.e. drawing and frame manipulation). Its there where the history panel has its use, not with coding. One of the main uses of the History panel is to be able to save commands which allow you to easily do repetitive monotonous work easily at the click of the mouse. This work being focused on drawing objects or editing symbols and not so much typing code. Not to say code cant be repetitive either, though handling that comes through behaviours. So no, coding in the actions panel does not and cannot be interpreted in the history panel

[Ledge]

I was looking for a way to easily create something that I am working on that has a small piece of actionscript attached to each one. There should be someway of putting AS commands into the history window so that I can run a command that will create my graphic and put my AS in at the same time.

[Ledge]

Thanks for the help though.

[senocular]

To be honest, I can't really say that there's not a way to do that, but I do know you won't achieve it through the history panel alone.

The documentation hasnt been released yet for all that you can do with the JSAPI, so its hard to tell at this point (other people are more familiar with it than I am though).

[farafiro]

I think, yes you can do that
I donno if it's a dream or not, but I've read once that these panels are almost like components or the old smart clips, so u can do it

[senocular]

Id actually be kind of upset if you couldnt add code through the JSAPI. It would seem important enough to include.

[farafiro]

I donno if it's outta yet, but I think Bit-101 and tyard were making a book for it

[senocular]

http://www.flashextensibility.com/

[farafiro]

yup, that's it ;)

[Ledge]

cool, I can't wait to get my hands on the book. I have been looking at some of the JSAPI stuff, but the book should help a lot. Thanks Again.