Pimping Trazzle

Just wanted to share some thoughts about future enhancements of Trazzle. Currently I’m working on modularizing the built-in functionality. Each and every feature should work as a plug-in, so that I have a small and uncluttered codebase. Even the main logger should become a plugin-in and afterwards I have plans for some new features:

Tail-ing flashlog.txt

This is a pretty basic, but nonetheless important feature. Additionally to logging messages through a socket, Trazzle will be able to

Posted at 1pm on 20/10/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Trazzle read on

New website!

Finally I’ve managed to put the new website up and publish Trazzle. The blog needs a facelift soon (above all to get you back to the main navigation). But first things first: Download Trazzle today to debug your flash movies!

Posted at 9pm on 14/09/08 | 3 comments | Filed Under: Cocoa, Flash, General, Software read on

Rename files with bash and regular expressions

  1. for i in *.*; do j=`echo $i | sed 's/abc_\(.*\)\.jpg/def_\1.jpg/g'`; mv "$i" "$j"; done

this example would rename the files abc_001.jpg, abc_002.jpg, ... to def_001.jpg, def_002.jpg ...

Posted at 7pm on 30/01/08 | 5 comments | Filed Under: One-Liner read on

Convert images to swfs with JSFL

One of the downsides of SWFMill (probably the only one) is, that it doesn't compress pngs, so things can get big pretty soon. If you need to convert a bunch of images into swfs and need transparency but compression, you can use the following script to achieve that by automating flash.

Posted at 10am on 11/12/07 | no comments | Filed Under: Software read on

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