RE: FLASH: Re: Flash: Software

[JGL]

Don't get your katooties to excited though. Importing an already made .swf

is most likely not going to happen. By default, most published Flash files

are protected from import. Even still, if it wasn't protected from import

and you imported it into Flash, you would have zero editing capabilities.

The .swf contains only the file without the necessaary components that allow

for editing.


Changing a .swf file without the source (.fla) is impossible as far as know.

There are some tools that allow you to crack open even .swf, but the most

you will extract are some images and maybe sound.


>I've got a small .swf file I'm trying to get into and change up a bit . . .


That would be the equivalent of banging your head against a concrete wall

several times trying to cure a headache.


At best it would probably require *more* work than recreating the file from

scratch. swf's are not like graphic images that are there for the taking and

easily edited. It is one of the many values of .swf's


-----Original Message-----

>>I don't think you can create or use *.fla files with Live Motion. I

thought the *.fla format is proprietary to Macromedia -- in other

words, other companies can make products which can create or export as

*.swf, but only Macromedia Flash can create, open, use *.fla files.


Allright... Want I want to do is edit the .swf then, methinks.


>>What is it that you're really trying to do? For instance, if you're

trying to prepare vector artwork for use in the Macromedia Flash 5

authoring

environment, then any tool that writes a valid SWF can have its art

imported to F5. Or are you trying to achieve something different...?


I think what I need to do, then, is just edit the .swf. I've got a

small .swf file I'm trying to get into and change up a bit, but I

didn't know of any software that would let me do it free. If Flash is

free for 30 days, though, I can probably work with that.


-Scott








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