Reacting to Animate events inside an extension

[FrancoisG]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find a way to react to events happening into Animate. My focus right now is being able, using an extension, to detecte when I enter in a symbol:

• Using ctrl + E,
• or by double-clicking it.

I'm using the JavaScript API. I have a minimal example script running, but I cant find anything related to Animate events listeners. Are events happening in Animate avaliable in some way to extensions developers, and is there a way to subscrive to them?

Please keep in mind that I am new to developing this kind of extension, so I might be missing something obvious.

Many thanks.

[kglad]

there are some event listeners but i'm not aware of one that would detect when you enter edit mode.

[FrancoisG]

Hi,

Ok. I will look at the event system in further details.

Could you point me to those something linked to the event listeners, like a specific part of the documentation or a code snippet? The JSAPI doc is not really user friendly for newcomers.

[JoãoCésar · Accepted solution]

Hi.

When you enter a symbol, the current timeline changes. So you can listen for the timelineChanged event. Like this:

var myFunction = function ()
{
    fl.trace("timeline changed");
}

var eventID = fl.addEventListener("timelineChanged", myFunction);

https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/animate/docs.html#!AdobeDocs/developers-animatesdk-docs/mast...

I hope this helps.

Regards,

JC

[JoãoCésar]

Also, this documentation is older...

https://help.adobe.com/archive/pt_BR/flash/cs5/flash_cs5_extending.pdf

... but often times I find it more efficient to search for the APIs.

[FrancoisG]

Hi JoãoCésar, this is very helpfull, I'm having a look at it. Thank you.