Farbflash

A tool miaw to list all handlernames of all scriptmembers in your director movie in a hierarchical menu.
Unlike Directors own handler menu, this tool lists not only Moviescript handlers, but rather all three types of scripts:

• Movie
• Score
• Parent

The different types are subdivided into own submenus.
Unlike Directors handlername menu the handlers are not listed all in one single menu, but they are categorized by the scriptmembers, they appear in.

There's also a submenu which lists the scripts used by the sprites in the current frame. So you can quite easily send an event to a sprite on stage.

Another important difference is, that handlers get executed by default and only the use of a modifier key either shows the occurrence in the script editor (Option/Alt key) or copies the syntax into the clipboard (Shift key).

So this tool provides an easy way of using your own scripts for authoring without needing to remember the names and type the same handlernames over and over again into the message window. It provides also a way to sendSprite() events, by simply selecting the event from the menu and entering the parameters in an upcoming dialog.
Refer to the Readme file for further description. (Readme file online)

Please note, that this version is not the most recent one. I transferred further development of the tool to an open source trac project, where you can always find the most recent version in trunk. see this blog post for further infos.

For the latest version of the tool check the trac project page at: http://www.farbflash.org/trac/HandlerMenu . After creating an account (I need that to keep spam robots away) you can go to the subversion repository -> "Browse Source" and checkout trunk as single zip file by directing your browser to http://www.farbflash.org/trac/HandlerMenu/browser/trunk and clicking on "Download in other formats: Zip Archive" at the bottom of the page

This new version now uses the OSControl xtra to draw the menu, as the buddyMenu xtra has an annoying bug.

Download (Mac/Windows): handlerMenu_v1.zip (318 KB)

Comments:

Wednesday, 24.Mai 2006 17:18:43 alex wrote:
I noticed that on windows you can't use the option/alt key in an authoring tool. use the ctrl key instead to open the script editor at the selected handler.

Sunday, 16.September 2007 02:59:41 alex wrote:

Created an open source trac project for HandlerMenu, see this blog post

Tuesday, 5.February 2008 07:42:34 alex wrote:

my way of shell xtra handling broke with the windows version in one of the last releases, as I wasn't aware of that the differences between the windows version and the mac version are that huge. I put up an update with a bugfix for an error appearing under windows. Sorry, that I sometimes do not test these authoring tools enough under the windows platform. I encourage you to create a ticket in my trac system, so that I can care for issues, which appear under the windows platform.

Tuesday, 5.February 2008 07:46:08 alex wrote:

just to make that sure, any further development of the tool including this update can be found on its trac project page at: http://neptun.mine.nu/trac/HandlerMenu/. Find the files in the "Browse source" section,

Tuesday, 26.February 2008 18:37:18 alex da Franca wrote:

released a new bugfix version with some new windows functions to work with external script editors.
see the comments in the Readme