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ALF - Advanced Library for Flash.
Advanced Library for Flash, AKA ALF, is a Flash IDE extension that extends Flash Library capabilities allowing you to find assets in a search as you type way and, when found, execute some actions on them which will help you refactor your library.
Searches can be performed following diferent criterias. You can find an asset on the library by its name, linkage name or by its classname. Also it allows you to filter the results depending on the symbol type (MovieClip, Graphic, Compiled Clip, Screen, Font, Bitmap or Sound). Depending on your criterias results are shown in one way or in another.
When you have found an asset you can open it in "Edit Mode" in the timeline, attach a new instance to the current selected timeline, select it on the library or change it's name, linkage name or binded className. In case you select more than one item at the same time you can change their className all at once.
How can ALF help you?
Lots of times when working on medium/large flash applications, flash libraries can become really untidy and finding an item on them can be a big headache.
At a first glance, flash library only shows you a little bit of information about an item (item Name, an if using the extended view, linkage id is also shown). But how many times have you wanted to look up an item binded to a concrete class? Or what about if you want to know all items binded to a concrete class? How many times have been looking up a symbol for more than 2-3 minutes (or more)? What if you want to bind several items to the same class? Or just change a class binding for another one? All this can be easily achieved with ALF.
On the other hand if you use Flash Screen based applications, ALF can also help you. When this kind of applications grow in size finding screens becomes more dificult. Now you can find them really fast and perform the same actions as to other items.
Features:
- Find items based on their name, linkage name or binded className.
- Filter results depending on the item type you're looking up. (MovieClip, Graphic, Bitmap, Sound, Font, Compiled Clip or Screen).
- See all information of an asset in a glance. |
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