Layers not exporting to Javascript on Publish

[robbr37739030]

I'm stuck on an issue regarding publishing to javascript.

I have an old animate app I created months ago. In this old app, when I publish, it exports my layers as javascript objects:

I simply don't understand why my old project exports the Layers "Tiles" and "Background" to JS.

But my new project does not! Why?

[kglad]

i don't see a problem in your screenshot.  what problem do you see when testing?

[robbr37739030]

The problem, as stated in the screenshot, is the new project is NOT exporting the layers as js objects, unlike the top example where it is.

[robbr37739030]

So, it gets even worse. As a test, I decided to re-publish my old app from months ago. It's checked in to a code repository, so I have high confidence nothing has changed.

However, when I published it again, it ALSO does not export the layers as objects. What the heck changed in Animate?

Why are layers not being exported as objects I can reference in code any longer? This totally broke my old projects.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

advanced layers must no longer convert layers to objects.

[ClayUUID]

It's strange that those layers wouldn't export as objects anymore, especially after you made sure that Advanced Layers was enabled.

[robbr37739030]

I would love to see some/any documentation on this.

Having learned many programming languages, I have to say...the docs for Adobe Animate/HTML 5 apps is some of the very worst and most incomplete I've ever seen. The CreateJS docs are good. But the Adobe docs are simply awful.

[kglad]

i agree with that.