JSFL Question

Btw, I'm not sure this is the right forum for JSFL questions,
but I do not know any forum here that would be closer.
I wish to make a jsfl script that exports all bitmaps in the
library to AS. But for some reason it doesnt work for Bitmaps (but
it does for MC symbols). On a german forum I read:
das liegt daran das die linkageExport settings für
bitmaps nicht greifen.... du müsstest zuvor deine bitmaps in
movieclips packen und diese exportieren... da kannst dann auch die
ganze linkageExportForAS, linkageExportInFirstFrame und
linkageIdentifier props setzen.
I'm not expert at german, but it sounds to me that he's
saying that it just isn't possible to export Bitmaps, that u have
to trick it via a movieclip. Anyone know anything about this issue?
I also got the impression from that forum, that jsfl is buggy in
general. One bad thing I discovered is that jsfl scripts can just
stop executing (maybe because of a nullpointer exception or
something) without giving any error message - which makes it hard
to debug. Anyone who can shed light on the subject?

eric76,
> I wish to make a jsfl script that exports all bitmaps in
the
> library to AS. But for some reason it doesnt work for
> Bitmaps (but it does for MC symbols).
I just ran a quick test, and I can confirm that ...
annoyingly, yes, it
seems to fail for bitmaps. (That's a bummer!)
> On a german forum I read:
> das liegt daran das die linkageExport settings f?r
bitmaps
> nicht greifen....
Seems to be the case.
> I'm not expert at german, but it sounds to me that he's
> saying that it just isn't possible to export Bitmaps,
that
> u have to trick it via a movieclip. Anyone know anything
> about this issue?
While I can "hold my own" with JSFL -- I do use it quite a
bit -- I
wouldn't say I'm an expert. If this issue really is what it
seems to be,
I'm afraid I don't have a guru hack handy. That said, it
certainly would
(should) be possible to use JSFL to create the movie clips
necessary to get
these images to export. It would just take a bit more effort,
but you could
even name the clips a similar name to the images, then put
them all into a
Library folder to neaten things up.
> I also got the impression from that forum, that jsfl is
buggy
> in general.
I wouldn't say "in general," really. Not any more so (in my
experience)
than any other language. Possibly a *bit* more, because it's
used by so few
people, but I'll put it this way: JSFL has saved by butt a
lot more often
than it has given me a headache.
> One bad thing I discovered is that jsfl scripts can just
stop
> executing (maybe because of a nullpointer exception or
> something) without giving any error message - which
makes
> it hard to debug.
I get errors when scripts time out or fail. It happens in a
model alert
box. You don't get those?
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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