adding event listener of closing and changing the FLA document for SWF extn panel JSFL actionscript

[Baldinini]

I have an extension SWF panel and a list of movie clips of the currently open document on it. I want to clear my list when the user closes the current document.

Also, I want to add some alert "You have to select the previous document you were work on" - when the user selects other open .fla document and tries to press some button on the SWF panel to edit some MC from the list. So I want to know if has Adobe Animate the ability to listen to closing and changing of documents?
thank you for advance for any hints

[Vladin M. Mitov · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes there is such a possibility. You can register a javascript function to be executed when certain system event occurs:

fl.addEventListener( eventType, callbackFunction );

The possible system events are:
"documentNew", "documentOpened", "documentClosed", "mouseMove", "documentChanged", "layerChanged", "timelineChanged", "frameChanged", “”, "prePublish", "postPublish", "selectionChanged", and "dpiChanged".

Also, in Flash CS4 and above, you have the possibility to refer a particular swf panel. In combination with ExternalInterface class and MMExecute method in AS, you can build a two-way communication between the two environments.

Example:

// JSFL

var docChangedID = fl.addEventListener( "documentChanged", onDocumentChangedHandler );

function onDocumentChangedHandler(){
     var panel = fl.getSwfPanel( "<my panel swf file name >", false );
     panel.call( "AScustomEventName" );
}

// AS
import adobe.utils.MMExecute;
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;

ExternalInterface.addCallback( "AScustomEventName", this.myASMethod );

function myASMethod() : void {
      // your stuff here
      MMExecute( "some jsfl code or path to a jsfl script" );
}

[Baldinini]

thank you very much for your answer
I've also found some info about it in
https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/flash/cs5/flash_cs5_extending.pdf
on page 244

[Baldinini]

hello
need advice on how to identify my current open document and avoid cleaning of my list in SWF panel when I close other open not selected document in Animate.
JSFL code:

var docCloseID = fl.addEventListener( "documentClosed", onDocumentClosedHandler );
function onDocumentClosedHandler(){
var panelClose = fl.getSwfPanel("mySWFpanel", true );
panelClose.call( "closeDoc" );}

AS code:

ExternalInterface.addCallback('closeDoc', this.clearListMethod );
function clearListMethod() : void {
list.dataProvider.removeAll();
}

[Vladin M. Mitov · Accepted solution]

OK, when you create your list in the panel, you know which document is current - you can store it's name or something unique to create list-document connection.

The "documentChanged" event fires when a document is created, selected, and closed.

So, the swf panel can be informed when the "focus" is changed and can compare the currently focused document ID with the stored one.

// JSFL
documentChangedHandler = function (){
    // pass the document name or ID as a parameter
	mySWFpanel.call( "ASdocumentChanged", fl.getDocumentDOM().name );
};
fl.addEventListener("documentChanged", documentChangedHandler );


// AS
var myCurrentDocumentName:String;

function ASdocumentChanged( dname:String ) : void {
      if( dname === myCurrentDocumentID ){
	  // OK
	  }else{
	  // disable the panel
	  }
}