Adobe Animate Scripting Guide

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Adobe Animate Scripting Guide

Welcome to the Adobe Animate Scripting Guide!

This is a living document, and is constantly being updated and edited. The latest public version of the SDK is available at: https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/animate.html

While we've tried to organize this document in a logical order and provide plenty of cross references, your specific needs may vary. Searching through this document based on keywords will often lead you to your answer.

If you need more information, your question may already be answered on the Animate forum: Animate Forum

Use the search box there, and post a new question if your question hasn't already been answered.

Contribution

This endeavour is primarily community-supported & run; contributors are welcome and encouraged to suggest fixes, adjustments, notes/warnings, and anything else that may help the project.

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This project exists for educational purposes only.

All content is copyright Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Window

Window object

window

Description

Is the global object in Animate, providing access to other core features including:

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
app an animate flash fl	Application object	Current application
document	Document object	Active document

Ended: Window

Document

Document object

document

Description

Provides access to objects and document settings within Animate.

The single global object is always available by its name, document.

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Attributes

Document.name

document.name

Description

Name of the active document.

Type

String; read-only.

Ended: Document

App

Application object

app, an, animate, flash, fl

Description

Provides access to objects and application settings within Animate.

The single global object is always available by its name, app, an, animate, flash, or fl.

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Attributes

App.version

app.version

Description

The version of Animate.

Type

String; read-only.

Ended: App