Over the last three years, we have invested a great deal of time into JSFL extensions, panels and other time-saving utilities for use on internal projects. Over the next few weeks, we hope to finally publish a bunch of these extensions to our site and invite anyone interested to download, share and comment on them. To kick it off, here are the first two extensions…

Since we released gProject, we receive about 2 emails each month reporting that opening the panel causes a different panel to open. The solution is simple, although a little hard to explain, especially to people who have no idea where the flash configuration folder is. Internally, we use a nifty little extension that automatically fixes the issue for you, for whatever version of flash you run it in.

Introducing the gStartPage, a replacement for the default Flash Start Page swf that gives you quick access to your gProjects. The gStartPage also does everything that the original Start Page does in a slightly condensed format.

We recently built a new project panel for Flash that has massively increased our productivity. It has a ton of features, including: directory reading, file creation, class creation from templates, class binding, UI introspection, multi-compiles, project testing, unit tests, persistent global and project settings, …

A super simple panel for Flash MX 2004 that lets you quickly assemble a list of FLAs that you would like to compile as a group. It’s not really a finished product as it doesn’t remember the list after you close the panel, but I thought it might be useful to some people (a couple of my developers are using it on a project right now).

A few people expressed interest in our standards for assigning linkage IDs at gskinner.com, so here they are, plus a JSFL script to help keep your library nicely organized.

This entry looks at all of the steps and code involved to set up a preloader that works internally in a Flash MX 2004 SWF (including classes and components). Also includes a handy JSFL that makes setting up a SWF for internal preloading a snap.