Even though Flash now comes with the FLfile object, Guy Watson’s FileSystem extension still has a handful of features that FLfile doesn’t have. I went looking for the api and couldn’t find it on his site anymore so I wanted to put it up here. If you don’t have the extension you can download it here.

Here is the list of methods. For now you’ll have to guess what the parameters are, but I’ll try and fill those in as I go.

Yesterday I was going through the list of new features in CS3 for the JSAPI and I found fl.clipCopyString(string). This has been a feature I have been waiting for since mx2004 came out. And more just because I wanted to create a Snippets Panel. So I spent some time yesterday putting together something pretty quick. I haven’t tested it all that much and the UI is pretty simple right now. But I’d like to get some feedback first before going moving to far forward. The thing to keep in mind is that you can only copy the snippets to the clipboard and they don’t actually get pasted where your cursor has focus. But it still beats having to type out all those EventDispatcher mixins everytime.

Let me know what you think.

Snippets v 0.1 

I always find myself creating really simple blank flash files that trace out key codes that I need. So I figured it should finally be a panel. All you have to do is give the panel focus and it will display the key code for the key that has been pressed.

Key Code Panel Download

Thanks to Jamie over at Big Spaceship I have updated my LibraryItems Panel. He found a little typo in the sound properties that was causing an error. It’s fixed now and can be downloaded here.