I’ve added Auto Save to the extensions list, it’s been around for a while but I just never got to putting it online. Based on an extension written by FlashGuru this command panel allows you to set Fireworks to automatically save the active document every ‘x’ minute(s) or every ‘x’ hour(s).
Kleanthis Economou has posted an updated Fireworks Commands Wrapper for Flash on the Macromedia Exchange. This allows you to author Fireworks Commands or Command Panels in Flash by addressing the Fireworks API using Acionscript.
Senocular identifies that some Fireworks MX extensions may cause Fireworks MX 2004 to unexpectedly error out and quit on startup. I’d be interested to know if anyone has experienced such problems with any of my Fireworks extensions..?
Macromedia has made documentation available online for the Fireworks Remote Procedure Calls or RPCs.
“The RPC mechanism exposes the Fireworks JavaScript DOM via XML and sockets. It allows other applications to access functionality previously restricted to JavaScript programs running inside of Fireworks such as ‘commands’ or ‘command panels’.
Nearly anything that can be done by a JavaScript program running inside of Fireworks can be done by an application via the Fireworks RPC. For example, an application running on the same machine as Fireworks can open Fireworks documents, slice them, optimize them, and then export them; or the application can create a new Fireworks document, draw into it, and then preview it in a browser.”
Pretty neat stuff I’m sure you will agree. Hopefully we’ll see some developers taking advantage of this in the not so distant future.
Via Thierry Lorey at ‘Fireworks Zone‘ I came across a ton of new Fireworks Command panels and AutoShapes. Thanks go out to ‘Senocular‘ for these, it’s great to see more developers getting involved in extending Fireworks. :)
