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
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!
Rename files with bash and regular expressions
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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 ...
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.