John Dunning

Building Adobe Fireworks extensions for fun and, um, no profit.

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@sashika Glad you're finding QuicKey useful! I can personally confirm it works great with ~1400 tabs. 😬
https://t.co/bQ2EPZIrCI

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@miniver @jessicaspeigel @daveixd @usabilitycounts Speaking of recursion, I once built an SVG parser extension for Fireworks, to import SVGs as editable files. Had to dig into the source code of the Fireworks JS engine to make it all work…

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@optimiced @rogie @benfryc (Hmm, need to update the og:image tags to use https...)

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@optimiced @rogie @benfryc The Multi-Border Rectangle tool let you directly interact with the shape to specify a different width/color per side (though not multiple widths/colors per side).

https://t.co/lHuIRqUKZV

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@drvox Interesting! I've always wanted something like that, although it would probably choke on the text of all my open tabs. And you have to give it access to all the pages you visit, which isn't ideal.

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@drvox I also built an extension that lets you quickly search for a tab's title or URL among all the open ones (or bookmarks/history), since of course the tabs are too small to read the titles. It makes it easy to jump back to recently used tabs, as well.
https://t.co/kNhUjU6Iw1

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@drvox Fellow tabaholic. I regularly have 400+ tabs open across 10+ windows, which is only possible thanks (?) to The Great Suspender extension, which automatically unloads tabs when they've been unused for awhile, saving RAM/CPU.
https://t.co/JidEO5U1qa

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@stowball @AdobeFireworks HAVE YOU UPDATED YOUR OS RECENTLY? I HAVEN'T CHANGED THE EXTENSION.

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@TylerAcosta14 @Razer Ha! And I thought US$15.99 shipping for a mouse pad was ridiculous.

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@migpolli I still use @AdobeFireworks when I need to work on a design, but that's fairly rare these days. :|

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

.@zackbeauchamp That's not "video game-style music". It's the classic track "High Roller" by The Crystal Method. https://t.co/iFhXnZ0g6S

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@matt_sven MMExecute won't give you line numbers from the AS3 side. But I hardly use it after building the JSML lib: http://t.co/Be5V2VoAOt

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@matt_sven When plain JS triggers an exception, it has a lineNumber. When a native FW object triggers one, it has a useless negative number.

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@stockporteagles I haven't. Maybe @AaronBeall has?

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@matt_sven Have you seen my compendium of FW JS Errata? Feel free to fork and update. https://t.co/Wyics2i0za

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@matt_sven Save a ByteArray from Flex? You probably can from ActionScript. Think I tried writing out non-ASCII w/ JS, but it didn't work.

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

(Re:, I wasn't actually googling myself. I was trying to type my site URL and accidentally put a space in there.)

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

My #AdobeFireworks site makes the top 4 search suggestions when typing my name, after volleyball coach & author.

[John Dunning @fwextensions]

@graffr_ @chunwui @macawco Macaw looks pretty cool. I'm wondering if it's built in an HTML engine.

[Sons of Fireworks @SonsofFireworks]

Are there any toolkits you’d like to see made? Still using #AdobeFireworks? Would love to hear what you are using/needing. #fwtoolkits