Here is an article on Flash moving to an XML format: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/03/flash_moving_to.html
Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O and Risk L&LD Solutions Design & Development eTools & Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GT&O Innovative Learning Blog & subscribe. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Peters >>Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:08 AM >>To: Open Source Flash Mailing List >>Subject: Re: [osflash] Reverse Engineering Adobe's FLA Format >> >>Flash CS4 will have an XFL import / export feature. It isn't >>meant to replace FLA, but will allow for some portability, >>source control, and maybe some third party tools that can >>create XFL, which can then be imported to create an FLA. It >>wouldn't surprise me if this eventually took over from FLA in >>the future. >> >>So reverse engineering FLA doesn't seem like a great >>investment of effort. >> >>Keith Peters >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >>On Mar 19, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Chris Spencer wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone know of any work done on reverse engineering the FLA >>> format? Whenever I Google this topic, all I find are SWF >>decompilers. >>> >>> I've been poking around the format, and I already know it's a basic >>> Microsoft OLE package, with separate files for project properties, >>> the stage, and each shape. The properties file is mostly plaintext, >>> with some binary used to denote the length of the property >>> names/values. The stage and object files look like they'll >>be harder >>> to crack since they're almost entirely binary. However, by >>comparing >>> files after toggling values in Adobe's IDE, I've found where >>> properties like an object's fill color are stored. >>> >>> There's a lot more work to do, so if there's no prior work done in >>> this area, would anyone like to collaborate with me in reverse >>> engineering this format? I've encapsulated what I know so far in a >>> Python script, which I'll release as open source when complete. >>> >>> I've also heard rumors on blogs that Adobe might be >>replacing FLA with >>> an XML equivalent. Does anyone think there's any truth to this? As >>> much as I'd like to see it happen, I'm not holding my breath. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Chris >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> osflash mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>osflash mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org >> _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
