What can you actually do with the tool Options File?

Hi.

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As for the questions, I think this is pretty much the documentation available:

https://github.com/AdobeDocs/developers-animatesdk-docs

Or you can use the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) in links like http://www.adobe.com/devnet, but I myself haven’t found anything much different from the current docs.

The properties defined in the tool XML maps to the ones used in the notifySettingsChanged function in .PolyStar.jsfl.

PolyStar.xml

<properties>

<property name="Style: " variable="style" list="polygon,star" defaultValue="0" type="Strings" />

<property name="Number of Sides: " variable="nsides" min="3" max="32" defaultValue="5" type="Number" />

<property name="Star point size: " variable="pointParam" min="0" max="1" defaultValue=".5" type="Double" />

</properties>

PolyStar.jsfl

function notifySettingsChanged()
{
	// ...
	nSides     = theTool.nsides;
	pointParam = theTool.pointParam;
	style      = theTool.style;
}

So besides defining the variable attribute for each property object, you can give it a name, the type of the variable and a default value.

I think the bigger mystery here is the type of variables supported. The PolyStar sample only gives us a comma separated list that is interpreted as a dropdown menu by the Properties panel, and a range with a min and max numeric values, which becomes a numeric input in the same panel.

What I think you could do is to dig for samples in Animate’s installation and configuration folder trying to guess search terms that are related to tools and that are not very generic like “gpubrush” or simply “tool”.

If you are on a Mac, you can open a Terminal window and search for strings on Animate related folders using grep like this:

grep -r “rectPrimitive” .

This command will search for the term “rectPrimitive” recursively in the contents of the current folder.

Or just use Finder’s built-in search feature.

Regards,
JC

you can change the polystar tool limits.