Save an animated gif from an actionscripted animation

Question

Is it possible to save a .fla file as an animated gif from an actionscripted animation? I know you can do it from a tweened animation quite easily, but haven't been able to figure out a way to do it from a scripted one.

Answer 1

I am not 100% sure I understand your question.

If you want to write an actionscript animation to a file from the Flash IDE, you can try quicktime(.mov) by choosing: File > Export Movie and choosing QuickTime as the output format. This will allow you save the rendering of your actionscript to a file. A handy video by Lee Brimlow is available here.

I don't think it's possible to save a gif from the IDE for actionscript, but if GIF is a must you can try rendering with actionscript into an array of BitmapData objects that you would feed to a GIFEncoder.

Have a look at this fun and easy to use GIF Encoder by Thibault Imbert. I found it really easy to get started with.

Have fun!