Re: FLASH: MM's Flash 4 wish list

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Joe Crawford wrote:


> ...I have a question about this ---

> 

>   why, if the Flash format is "open", have we not seen:

>         a) an alternate editing program for flash

>         b) native unix flash players

> ...


Flash format (swf) is open, yes, but the fla format is not, so no

editors, as that would require reverse engineering of fla files

something that is easy to do but not very legal I would think. My guess

is that we will see a 'swf->fla' translator before a 3rd party editor.

As for players these exist in various forms and flavours some I have

seen/played with include:

- *nix players for Flash2 w/o sound support, with sound support and

Flash3,

- OS400 player for Flash2 w/o sound support(ported from *nix sources!),

and

- Java multi platform players


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