ExtendScript debugging in Adobe Animate cc 2017

[ellie_mcconan]

Hi,

I've been searching a lot on forums but nothing works properly. Is there any way to debug ExtendScript in Adobe Animate CC?

Thanks.

[Ten A]

Animate CC does not support ExtendScript.

However, You can reference JavaScript API in below.

Adobe Animate custom SDK and API | Adobe I/O

[ellie_mcconan]

Ten A, thanks for shearing the reference. How can I debug the host/index.jsx file?

[Ten A]

Have you already check Capter1 in below article?

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/extend/flash_extending_reference.pdf

AnimateCC's JavaScript called JSFL, not ExtendScript.

[ellie_mcconan]

Yes, I've checked chapter 1 but haven't found the script debugging instructions.

[Ten A]

JSFL doesn't have any tool for debugging. You can run JSFL file simply, Select Commands > Run Command, and then select the script.

We often use fl.trace() method to get debug message in the output panel.

Here is a sample code from the previous document.

fl.outputPanel.clear();
fl.trace("Hello World!!!");
var myPet = "cat";
fl.trace("\nI have a " + myPet);
fl.trace("");
fl.trace("I love my " + myPet);
fl.trace("Do you have a " + myPet +"?");

[ellie_mcconan]

This method works, though it's not user-friendly, for instance the result in the output panel is not structured and so on. Anyways better than nothing 😃  Thanks a lot for help.

[ClayUUID]

ellie.mcconan  wrote

This method works, though it's not user-friendly

I certainly hope you don't have your users doing debugging for you.