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Flash UI Panel to Edit the Properties of Multiple Bitmaps

Devon O. · August 27, 2008 · Flash, Life · 20 comments
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Long ago (MX 2004 days, I believe) there existed a great custom Flash panel released by Fuel Industries that would allow you to set the export properties of multiple library items simultaneously. Say, for example, you have a hundred little bitmap items in your library that you’re using for an interface and you want to allow smoothing on all of them. Ordinarily, you’d have to go through each and every one, open up the properties panel and check the Allow Smoothing check box. Hopefully you wouldn’t skip one. With this Fuel panel though, you’d highlight all the bitmap instances and click a single button one time to change them all. I’d nearly forgotten about this extremely useful little plugin until I ran across this blog post by Matt Wright. Since I no longer have that plugin myself, I figured I’d make one. It was a pretty quick and easy thing to do. I can’t remember what all that Fuel plugin was capable of, but mine handles Bitmap objects only. Basically, it’s just as I described – you highlight multiple Bitmaps in your .fla’s library, adjust the settings (allow smoothing, lossy/lossless, jpg compression quality), then click on the “execute” button and – presto – all items are instantly changed.

You can check out a screenshot below and if interested grab the zipped up .mxp file here.

After installing the .mxp using Adobe Extension Manager and restarting Flash (if it was open at the time), you can find the panel at Window -> Other Panels -> Library BMP Editor. It’ve tested it in Flash CS3 and CS4 Beta, but, though it works in both, it isn’t necessary in one…


FlashDevelop 3.0 Beta 8 has just been released! I get excited with each new release – even just a beta increment. I absolutely love this editor and can’t remember what I ever did without it. If you’ve never tried it, do yourself a favor and get it now.


And on the cinema side, a couple new movies on their way out in the near future I’m sure you’ll want to go spend money on. One, a new movie based on another novel by Chuck (“Fight Club”) Palahniuk, Choke. I can’t wait for this one. The novel was even better than Fight Club, in my opinion, and if this Clark Gregg guy does a good job of it, this flick will just be fantastic.

The other is a new Coen brothers movie, Burn After Reading. If you think you’re unfamiliar with their work, you’re probably not. These are the film making super genii, who have created such masterpieces as Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Big Lebowski, and most recently No Country for Old Men. There isn’t a genre these cats can’t nail, exceptin’ one: the romantic comedy. Intolerable Cruelty had to be one of the worst films ever. It took me a long time to believe it was even a Coen bros. piece. I’m really hoping Burn After Reading isn’t in the same vein. Of course I’m definitely shelling out my money to see for myself. At home. In Ireland. With the wife.

Which reminds me – only 21 more days stuck in the Navy…

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20 Comments:
  1. You are insane! This is really great and would have saved me many painful moments in the past! Thanks!

    Shoom · August 28, 2008
  2. Hey Shoom! Glad to hear it may be useful..

    Devon O. · August 28, 2008
  3. Just on point, have to change the path for localized flash version.
    from “Users/me/Libraries/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS3/en….”
    to “Users/me/Libraries/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS3/fr….” for french version).

    Great job to.
    thx

    mr bbp · September 01, 2008
  4. Thanks for pointing that out, mr bbp.. And I hope it ends up useful..

    Devon O. · September 02, 2008
  5. This is exactly what I have been looking for.
    Thank you very much for this great tool!

    Steven Wood · September 18, 2008
  6. THANK YOU!

    edgecrusher · September 21, 2008
  7. Thank you so much. I am working with hundreds of images on my current project.

    Bill · March 18, 2009
  8. Thank you! Thank you!

    Worked like a charm!

    cheers,
    db

    daniel bryan · August 20, 2009
  9. life-saver. thanks a million.

    katharinebelle · November 12, 2009
  10. FUEL LIBRARY ITEMS extension found here: http://www.deleteaso.com/downloads/extensions/LibraryItems.mxp

    NeoGio · November 16, 2009
  11. This is incredible!!!!! Such a help with some current projects. Thanks!

    Patric Perez · July 27, 2010
  12. OMG, Devon. You are the man! Just saved me lots of time and headaches!

    C.A.C. · August 26, 2010
  13. If there ever was a flash plugin that blew my mind, this was it!

    Larry T. · August 31, 2010
  14. Life saver, thanks heeeeeaps for sharing mate!

    Dani · October 20, 2010
  15. Thank you – you rule! Total lifesaver – I can’t believe this functionality isn’t already built into Flash! WTF! – thanks again

    dc · November 23, 2010
  16. Thank you. You just safed an hour of my life.

    syko · May 24, 2012
  17. You Rock. This saved me about 2 days of work!!

    Mangle69 · September 04, 2012

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