Introducing xJSFL

28th April 2011 (28/04/2011)Dave Stewart

If you’ve never heard of JSFL, you’re not alone.

JSFL, or the Flash extensibility layer, is the JavaScript-based scripting language built into Flash, that can control virtually every aspect of the Flash IDE through code.

Although initially seen as the new “must-know” tool in the power-user’s arsenal, in the real world users found the JSFL syntax unintuitive, the development environment poor, and ultimately the massive potential of JSFL was never really realised beyond a few 2 or 3-line scripts languishing on the more adventurous developers’ hard drive.

8 years after its release, xJSFL is a modern jQuery-like framework that allows you to write JSFL in a manner more intuitive to normal JavaScript / ActionScript folk. It provides structured object model, common libraries, a clean, intuitive syntax, a world-class development environment, and front-end tools for the Flash IDE to integrate, manage and launch anything from single scripts to larger xJSFL modules.

The talk will introduce JSFL to those who don’t know about it, demo some real-world JSFL & xJSFL code, look at some xJSFL tools, and show how xJSFL can be used in both your design and code-only development projects.

Presentation: PDF

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2 Responses to “Introducing xJSFL”

  1. Pedram says:

    it has voluble syntax, I like it…

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