xleff2as is a automization tool for generating AS 2.0 stubcode for XLEFF. It parses XLEFF documents an generates the corresponding AS code for each component instance.

xleff2as is a part of XLEFF TBX

Some background:

XLEFF generates all event handler for each component instance automaticaly. This is very usefull and saves a lot of time. You just have to follow some naming conventions in order to access the events.

For example:

In your XLEFF-doc you declare a button instance named “TestButton” with someting like this:

<button name=”TestButton” lbl=”Test”>

If you now would have access to the buttons “click” event, you have to write this as-code:

function onTestButton_Click(evtObj:Object):Void { trace(evtObj.target._name + " has been clicked”); }

This is quite easy, but its also easy tho make typing errors :+) Also its sometimes boring to write all this stubcode for each event. In larger project it can be painfull too to rename instances an its event handlers.

Therefore i found it would be nice to have tool which parses the XLEFF-doc an generates the correct stubcode for each event handler automaticaly.

... the idea of xleff2as was born !

comming soon ...

You can watch a little video i made, which shows the workflow of xleff2as. In this video i simply modify a demofile of Antonio and add a new button instance to it. After that i generate the stubcode for the buttons event handler with xleff2as. At last i batch complie the whole stuff with mtasc and our modified XLEFF framework which we named as xleff4mtasc.

You can watch the flv video here (~10.6mb).

• automatic recognition of suitable events for each component instance
• interface improvements
• alternitive .jsfl version for use inside the Flash IDE
• AS3 support
• source code online

... comming soon

http://www.3kopf.de/projekte/xleff2as

Jan Viehweger, 3Kopf
Halle/Saale (Germany)