extending Flash CS4: How can I display info about my current selection in my Custom Panel?

Question

I'm building a Flash CS4 custom panel extension, and while I can call jsfl from actionscript fine, I can't figure out how to get info from the jsfl queries back to my custom panel. MMExecute() seems like a one way street.

Specifically, I want to display a selection's X and Y position in the custom panel. How do I call fl.getDocumentDOM().getSelectionRect() in such a way that the results are accessible to the panel?

Any help is much appreciated, Matt

Answer 1

Ok, I think I've figured it out. MMExecute() does in fact return a string, it's just often empty. It returns whatever string the first called jsfl function returns, if the jsfl function returns a string.

Thus if the called jsfl api function doesn't return a string, you just need to write your own jsfl wrapper function for it that converts whatever it does return into a string that's useful to your actionscript.