Comments on: Flash Extension: Set Instance Name on Multiple Frames

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:00:12 +0000

You’re welcome, Haansplosion. Glad I could help!

By: Haansplosion

Haansplosion — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:23:23 +0000

Justin,

You are a legend. You have no idea how much that is going to help me.

Thankyou so much, i really appreciate it!!

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:58:22 +0000

Haansplosion,

Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad to hear that the extensions are coming in handy!

Here’s a modified package that appends a number: INSTANCE – multi-name-numbered.mxp. FYI: It restarts the numbering on each new frame.

By: Haansplosion

Haansplosion — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:59:24 +0000

Hi Guys,

Mirek, thats exactly what i need!

Problem is, im not well versed in creating or modifying extensions, do you think you could upload your extension with the count added in?

Justin, awesome extension. I wasnt aware that flash extensions were this handy until today. Keep up the awesome work!

By: mirek

mirek — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:02:10 +0000

thanks I’m currently working on a project where I have a lot of similar instances that need to be named like ball1, ball2, ball3 etc. In your function setElementNames I just added the count variable to the end of the new name

iSel.name = instanceName+count;

It worked like a charm. Thanks for a great extension that will save me a lot of tedious instance naming.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:51:19 +0000

Lubo, I’ve taken your suggestion and updated the extension. Thanks for your feedback!

By: Lubo

Lubo — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:52:10 +0000

Thank you for this tool I’ve always wanted. You save me lot of time and from clicking those little keyframes, then symbol, then typing a name again and again – until madness Maybe you can improve it a little by allowing a symbol be a button. I think, that this works:

if(iSel.symbolType == ‘movie clip’ || iSel.symbolType == ‘button’)

Thanx!

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:25:36 +0000

Tim, I was able to fix this error. I also corrected another minor glitch so that the command will still run on the first frame selected even if it isn’t a keyframe. Download link above has the new version (1.0.1).

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:15:26 +0000

Thanks for the details, Tim. I should be able to troubleshoot this. Look for a fix in the next few days.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:47:53 +0000

Nice. I can see this being very handy. Cheers.

One bug I’ve encountered within Flash CS4 is this:

The following JavaScript error(s) occured:
At line 40 of file “INSTANCE – multi-name.jsfl”:
TypeError: iFrame has no properties

This is triggered every time I select keyframes within a tween. Specifically It is caused when you include the final frame of the tween. Selecting multiple keyrames within a tween works fine until you include the end frame.