Table of Contents
Advertisement
3
CHAPTER 3
Cross-Product Extensions
Cross-product extensions include any Fireworks-related extensions developed for, or in,
another Macromedia application. These cross-product extensions include those written for
other tools, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 that use existing Fireworks 8 functionality.
They may use JavaScript APIs for adding image-editing functionality to those applications as
well as custom Fireworks panels developed in Macromedia Flash 8 to enhance the
functionality of Fireworks. For example, a developer may want to create an ActionScript
command so that a user can replace text in an image without leaving the current movie.
Similarly, a Flash developer may create a panel so that a Fireworks user can easily create spirals
and other nonstandard shapes repeatedly.
Cross-product architecture
The Fireworks cross-product communication architecture provides a new way for extension
developers to create Fireworks-related features for other applications. With this new
architecture, your extensions allow a user to perform common image-editing operations
(cropping, rotating, adjusting color, blurring, and almost all Fireworks operations) without
leaving the current application or opening Fireworks.
99
Advertisement
Table of Contents
