This is an import of the links that appeared in the JSFL section of this site before switching to the blog. I’m getting tired of administering all of these seperate areas, so here’s a a very long and monolithic list of all that’s there:

Extensions for download

• Extending Flash MX 2004 downloads

  An archive of all the extensions that used to be on the flashextensibility.com site, including the Invisible button tool, Teknision commands including Find in Library, and other hard-to-find gems. Excellent by all measures.

• Macromedia Exchange

  Macromedia’s official site for extensions. Takes a while to get your extension listed though, and it’s not a definitive source by any means. A good start point.

• Flashguru’s extensions

  Batch Run and auto-save among others. The FileSystem API has been included in the new Flash MX IDE 7.0.2 update.

• 5 1/2 extensions

  Shameful self promotion, yes; but still, I use my Pixel Tools and Selections Tools all the time, and I didn’t even make them for me!

• Fuel Industries blog

  Very useful library properties panel and a few others.

• ASVGuy Arrange Library

  A tool for library management.

• Funciton blog

  Two extensions for download, including one library manager.

• Jesse Warden’s extensions

  Mass symbol swapper, round pixel coordinates, unsmooth/smooth all bitmaps, and a bunch of other very useful extensions (site map is admitedly hard to read).

• HiddenRessource extensions

  Convert all to clip and Library Item Renamer extensions.

• Phireworks extensions

  10+ nice extensions, including a few panels to easily work with mx.transitions, a selective layer lock command, a few layer and library helpers.

• artificialcolors JavaDoc style documenter

  Reads the actionscript of the current frame and adds javadoc style comments on top of function definitions.

• Peter Elst

  Text shadow timeline effect, triangle tool, component styles panel (that last one is especially useful).

• Flash extensibility

  Now under the direction of Peter Elst, who has vowed to change the site into a community-based effort.

• Dengjie

  Pixel font wizard panel and extensions for Macromedia’s other products.

• 27 bobs extensions

  See “Downloads & Components”. Dialog designer (XML2UI generator), gradient palette and message window panels, plus some behaviours.

• Flash Filmmaker

  Professional panels geared at animators, including Toon Titan and Nested timeline.

• Snippets panel

  Save and load code snippets. Available under Alle Downloads > JSFL.

• Developper’s assistant

  A panel to keep notes, planning and to-do information.

• Class shell generator

  Analyzes the current open symbol and creates a class with imports and variables. Very useful.

• Create MC buttons

  Creates an MC button skeleton.

• Preloader helper

  Unsets “Export in first frame” for all library items and add an instance of the changed mcs on stage in the selected frame, for preloading purposes.

• Remoting service panel

  An updated Flash remoting services browser, much better than MM’s. Can drop an instance of RemotingConnector on stage based on method definition. Thanks a ton to Muzak for this one, he furnished the specs to service browsing so I could integrate it into amfphp.

• Library item organizer

  Puts types (movie clips, buttons, etc.) into their respective folders in the library.

• MXI creator

  Yet another MXI creator, this time as a flash panel.

• Publish all

  Publishes all open documents.

• Duplicate library items

  Duplicate currently selected items and folders in the library all at once. Works quite well.

• SYmbolizer

  Commercial symbol creation panel, with auto-naming, folder support.

• Flash.init() extensions

  Very useful set of commands: Set transformation point to top-left, pixelate bounds, search & rename in library, multi-edit library properties.

• After-hours

  (spanish) A bunch of commands: generate LoadVars actionscript, create aqua buttons, create empty movieclip, distribute to layers, and other stuff.

• XML and Text Viewer Panel

  Another nice tool by Jesse Warden, loads an XML file into a panel for reference purposes.

• FLA batch compiler

  Batch compiles FLAs, moves them, creates log.

• Spiral Tools

  Not very useful, but pretty cool.

• JSAPI snippets

  Panel to quickly edit, run and manage simple JSAPI scripts.

• Generate form layout code

  Outputs the actionscript to create all the components that are on the stage and assign all the parameters.

• FLASC

  A panel integrating MTASC into Flash.

• gProject

  Commercial extension for project management. Haven’t used it but John Grden swears by it.

Non-Extension downloads

• MXI file creator

  A windows desktop app to create MXI for creating and editing Macromedia Extensions (.mxi files)

• WindowSWF example

  An working example of a simple WindowSWF, for educational purposes

Documentation/tutorials

• Macromedia JSAPI reference

  Listed under “Flash Javascript Dictionary”. Includes a chapter on the C-level extensibility. Also download the PolyStar.jsfl file for a well-documented implementation of the tool API.

• Macromedia tutorial on the JSFL File API

  A tutorial on the new file handling capabilities of the 7.2 (Ellipsis) update of the IDE.

• Extending Flash MX by Keith Peters and Todd Yard

  A great (and to my knowledge the only) book on the JSAPI. Download a sample chapter here. It shows good use of matrix transformations (the trickiest thing about the JSAPI)

• Unofficial JSAPI reference @actionscript.nl

  A nice Flash file with classes and their methods listed with some details.

• JSFL tutorial and example code @actionscript.nl

  Tutorial and examples of XUI, a way of creating dynamic panels in the JSAPI. (click on JSFL tutorial and JSFL example code on the left)

• MXI file reference

  If you want to code your Macromedia eXtension Installation files yourself, you can look at this doc. Otherwise look at the MXI file creator, listed in Non-extension downloads.

• Découvrir JSFL

  (french) An intro on JSFL.

• Extending Flash MX 2004

  Tutorial on JSFL by Guy Watson, aka Flashguru. See also part 2 and part 3.

• JSFL & XUL

  (french) A tutorial on making a scale and rotate panel.

• After hours blog post on tool installation

  (spanish) A tutorial-like post on installing the Pixel Tools, should be helpful for any kind of tool though.

Lists/forums

• ExtendFlash list

  The most active community for Flash extensibility. Provided by Guy Watson, aka Flashguru. Search the archives (use Google site search) for answers to your many, many questions.

• Flash extensibility forum @ actionscript.org

  Small, but a good place to announce your new extensions.

Blogs

• Bit-101

  Keith Peters’ blog, covering the JSAPI, his book and other stuff

• Peter Elst

  JSFL talk and extensions for download

• After-hours

  (spanish) A blog with many posts on JSFL

• Fuel Industries blog

  Discussions, extensions for download. See post Unicode table, very useful for us french users.

• Jesse Warden

  Discussion, rants, extensions for download

• Danger’s flash blog

  (chinese) The first Flash blog of China, several posts on jsfl

• gSkinner

  Regular posts on JSFL, extensions for download

Did I miss your resource? Just comment away your favorite links!