Is There An Extension that Renames Layers Based on Movie Clip Names of Files

Question

Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone knew of an extension that could
rename layers on the main time line based on the movie clip names
that are found on the time line. I have a client file that is
absolutely huge but all the layers are just named Layer followed by
random numbers.
I have seen extensions that clean up the library but never
one that cleans layer names.

Answer 1

fcastro75,
> Sounds great! I was actually thinking about this over
the
> weekend and asking a few fellow flashers what they
though.
> I think instance names should have the highest
importance. [...]
If you're still watching this thread, I have a few more
questions for
you. :) I finally have some time to play with this script,
and there's a
twist I didn't think of earlier.
Here's how JSFL works in regard to your particular aim:
a) Get the current timeline.
b) Get the layers of that timeline.
c) Get the *frames* inside each layer.
d) Get the elements inside each frame.
The twist is C, and it adds considerable complexity to this
script. You
might have a layer with 100 frames on it, and each frame has
a different mc
(or graphic, or text field, etc.) on it. What on earth should
this layer be
named? In your previous post, you suggested this:
> Layers that have multiple instances should read
multi-item.
That may well mean that feasibly half of your layers say
"multi-item" in
then, even if a given layer only has two separate items on it
(one graphic
symbol spanned from frames 50 to 80, and another graphic
symbol spanned from
frames 200 to 550).
Even if we were to increment the names of these, you could
easily get 30
layers in a row named "multi-item (1)", "multi-item (2)",
"multi-item (3)",
and so on. Seems to me like that wouldn't be any more helpful
than what you
have now.
One approach -- much easier to program, as it happens --
would be to
simply stop at the first frame in a layer that has content at
all, and name
the layer after that.
e.g.
"instanceName" (moveiclip) [1]
... where "instanceName" is the element's instance name,
(movieclip) is the
element's type, and [1] is the occurence of that element. If
that layer
contains any additional content -- either on that frame, or
subsequent
frames, we could add that "multi-item" phrase, like this:
"instanceName" (moveiclip) [1] multi-item
This way, in cases where the designer only used on element
in a layer,
you'd get a meaningful indication of that. In cases where the
designer used
several, you'd at least get an indication of the first one,
with a hint that
others exist.
Whatcha think?
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."