Why is my outputed Javascript file size so large?

[slipper]

Why is my outputed Javascript code file 13,000+ lines when the Javascript I've created in the Action Panel is only !200 lines? For the sake of programming efficiency... can the file be trimmed?

[kglad]

no, or, at least, not easily.

i have about 230 lines of createjs (http://www.kglad.com) and the js file contains more than 19000.  that's what happens when you swap the convenience of using an ide for hand-coding everything. 

there may be more economic ide's available, but nothing is going to be as efficient as hand-coding.

[slipper]

Thanks for the quick answer. I figured it was something like that... 🙂

[kglad]

you’re welcome.

[ClayUUID]

You're using a lot of static text, aren't you?

[slipper]

Thanks for the response. Actually, no. I created a number of components in Illustrator and copied them into Animate. Minimal text set in Animate. I'm sure the abundant code is just the canvas stuff in code. right?

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

Illustrator artworks are usually very complex.

If you apply some cleanup to it you're probably gonna get a smaller code.

[resdesign]

Though my art is almost exclusively made in AI, I rarelly bring in the illustrator file but rather save images as png. I guess it depends what your workflow is and what kind of fla you are making. My js files are pretty small in general.