Swf-fla question

i made a fla a while back with a little animated navigational
aid, which because my scripting skills are so poor, was quite
tedious to program. now i need to edit it but i've lost the fla.
can flash convert the swf back into a fla?
any suggestions?
thanks,
macron

thanks for running it through your program. it's interesting,
the layer names don't look the same as i remember, and it seems as
if it put each invisible button on its own layer, whereas i had
them on one. and the text shows up as question marks. it did
retrieve the animation script though, which i was dreading having
to rebuild from scratch. that's terrific. i'll take a look at
so-think. thanks for the advice.
much obliged,
macron

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> Thanks
>
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package as3{
 import flash.display.Sprite;
 import flash.display.MovieClip;
 import flash.display.StageAlign;
 import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
 import flash.text.TextField;
 import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
 import flash.events.Event;
 import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
 import flash.events.MouseEvent;
 import flash.net.URLLoader;
 import flash.net.URLRequest;
 import flash.net.navigateToURL;
 import flash.utils.Timer;
 import flash.geom.ColorTransform;
 import caurina.transitions.Tweener;
 import caurina.transitions.properties.ColorShortcuts;
 ColorShortcuts.init();
 public class ContactPage extends Sprite {
 public var itemsPath:String='';
 private var xmlCOLORS_DFT:String = 'colors.xml';
 private var colorStatus:Boolean=false;
 public var color_dfr:Object=new Object();
 private var xmMAIN_XML_PATH:String = 'cgal.xml';
 private var mainXMLStatus:Boolean=false;
 public var xmlDate:Array = [];
 private var mainTitle:String='';
 private var bg:BG;
 private var monitor:Monitor;
 public var footerMenu:FooterMenu;
 private var b_colorOut:uint;
 private var b_colorOver:uint;
 public var container:MovieClip;
 public var closeF:Function;
 public var monitorHeight:int=0;
 public var monitorWidth:int=0;
 public var email_for_contact_form:String;
 public function ContactPage() {
 addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, aplLoading);
 addEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE, remove);
 private function remove(e:Event):void {
 trace(this);
 removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, aplLoading);
 removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loading);
 stage.removeEventListener(Event.RESIZE, appResizeHandler);
 private function aplLoading(e:Event):void {
 var bytesTotal = stage.loaderInfo.bytesTotal;
 var bytesLoaded = stage.loaderInfo.bytesLoaded;
 var percentLoaded : Number = Math.floor(Math.round( bytesLoaded/bytesTotal ));
 if (percentLoaded==1) {
 if (parent!=stage) {
 closeF= Object(parent).goBG;
 container = Object(parent).div;
 xmlCOLORS_DFT = Object(parent).xmlCOLORS_DFT;
 xmMAIN_XML_PATH = Object(parent).xmMAIN_XML_PATH;
 itemsPath=Object(parent).itemsPath;
 init();
 removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, aplLoading);
 public function init() {
 stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
 stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
 stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, appResizeHandler);
 footerMenu = new FooterMenu();
 monitor = new Monitor();
 bg = new BG();
 bg.alpha=0;
 addChild(bg);
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 mainLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, onMainXMLLoad );
 mainLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorTrace);
 mainLoader.load( new URLRequest(xmMAIN_XML_PATH) );
 var colorLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
 colorLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, onColorXMLLoad );
 colorLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorTrace);
 colorLoader.load( new URLRequest(xmlCOLORS_DFT) );
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 var colorTransform:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
 colorTransform.color = color;
 obj.transform.colorTransform = colorTransform;
 private function onColorXMLLoad( event:Event ):void {
 try {
 var mainData:XML = new XML( event.target.data );
 for (var i:int; i<mainData.elements().length(); i++) {
 var attribCol:Object = {};
 for each (var attribute:XML in mainData.elements()[i].attributes()) {
 attribCol[attribute.name().toString()] = attribute.valueOf().toString();
 color_dfr[mainData.elements()[i].name().toString()] = attribCol;
 colorStatus = true;
 addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loading);
 } catch (e:Error) {
 errorTrace("Couldn't load the Color XML file. "+e.message);
 trace( 'Color XML Loading Error: ' + e.message );
 return;
 private function onMainXMLLoad( event:Event ):void {
 try {
 var mainData:XML = new XML( event.target.data );
 mainTitle = [email protected]();
 if (Boolean([email protected]())) {
 monitorWidth = parseInt([email protected]());
 if (Boolean([email protected]())) {
 monitorHeight = parseInt([email protected]());
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 email_for_contact_form = mainData.@email_for_contact_form.toString();
 } else {
 errorTrace("There is no e-mail address.");
 trace( "There is no e-mail address.");
 return;
 for (var i:int=0; i<mainData.elements().length(); i++) {
 xmlDate[i] = {title:mainData.elements()[i][email protected](), cont:mainData.elements()[i]};
 mainXMLStatus = true;
 addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loading);
 } catch (e:Error) {
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 trace( 'Main XML Loading Error: ' + e.message );
 return;
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 if (mainXMLStatus && colorStatus) {
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 footerMenu.alpha= 0;
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 monitor.txt.text = mainTitle;
 monitor.init();
 monitor.addChild(footerMenu);
 b_colorOver = uint(color_dfr.buttons.mouseOver);
 b_colorOut = uint(color_dfr.buttons.mouseOut);
 Tweener.addTween(monitor,{alpha:1,time:1});
 Tweener.addTween(footerMenu,{alpha:1,time:1, delay:.7});
 function buttonRoll(e:MouseEvent):void {
 var button = e.currentTarget;
 switch (e.type) {
 case "mouseOut" :
 colorCgange(button.img,b_colorOut);
 break;
 case "mouseOver" :
 colorCgange(button.img,b_colorOver);
 break;
 public function errorTrace(txt:String):void {
 var err_txt:TextField= new TextField();
 err_txt.width = 300;
 err_txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
 err_txt.wordWrap = true;
 err_txt.htmlText = '' + txt+ '';
 err_txt.x = (stage.stageWidth-err_txt.width)/2;
 err_txt.y = (stage.stageHeight-err_txt.height)/2;
 addChild(err_txt);
 private function appResizeHandler(e:Event=null):void {
 if (container) {
 bg.width = container.width;
 bg.height = container.height;
 } else if(stage) {
 bg.width = stage.stageWidth;
 bg.height = stage.stageHeight;
Monitor.as
package as3{
 import flash.display.MovieClip;
 import flash.display.StageAlign;
 import flash.display.Bitmap;
 import flash.display.BitmapData;
 import flash.display.Loader;
 import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
 import flash.text.TextField;
 import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
 import flash.text.TextFormat;
 import flash.events.FocusEvent;
 import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
 import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
 import flash.events.Event;
 import flash.events.MouseEvent;
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 import flash.net.URLRequest;
 import flash.net.URLVariables;
 import flash.net.URLLoaderDataFormat;
 import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;
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 import flash.events.TimerEvent;
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 mainObj = parent;
 container = mainObj.container;
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 mainTitle = uint(mainObj.color_dfr.mainTitle.textColor);
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 itemDescription= uint(mainObj.color_dfr.itemDescription.textColor);
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 var contactFbgColor:uint = uint(mainObj.color_dfr.inoutTextField.bgColor);
 var contactFbrColor:uint = uint(mainObj.color_dfr.inoutTextField.borderColor);
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 textFieldFormat(item_3, itemDescription);
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 contactForm.txt_name.backgroundColor = contactFbgColor;
 contactForm.txt_phone.borderColor = contactFbrColor;
 contactForm.txt_phone.backgroundColor = contactFbgColor;
 contactForm.txt_email.borderColor = contactFbrColor;
 contactForm.txt_email.backgroundColor = contactFbgColor;
 contactForm.txt_message.borderColor = contactFbrColor;
 contactForm.txt_message.backgroundColor = contactFbgColor;
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 textFieldFormat(contactForm.txt_email, contactFtextColor);
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 appResizeHandler();
 stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, appResizeHandler);
 private function textFieldFormat(tField:TextField, color:uint):void {
 var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
 format.color = color;
 tField.defaultTextFormat = format;
 function buttonRoll(e:MouseEvent):void {
 var button = e.currentTarget;
 switch (e.type) {
 case "mouseOut" :
 if(button.name == "b_close"){
 button.img.transform.colorTransform = new ColorTransform();
 }else{
 mainObj.colorCgange(button.img, b_colorOut);
 break;
 case "mouseOver" :
 mainObj.colorCgange(button.img, b_colorOver);
 break;
 private function fClose(e:MouseEvent):void {
 mainObj.closeF()
 public function init():void {
 var i:int=0;
 title_1.text = xmlData[0].title;
 title_2.text = xmlData[1].title;
 for (i=0; i<xmlData[0].cont.elements().length(); i++) {
 this['item_'+(i+1)].htmlText = xmlData[0].cont.elements()[i];
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 loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
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 contactForm.mc_buttons.b_submit.buttonMode = true;
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 for (i=0; i<form_field_arr.length; i++) {
 contactForm[form_field_arr[i]].tabIndex = i;
 contactForm[form_field_arr[i]].text= form_def_cont_arr[i] ;
 contactForm[form_field_arr[i]].addEventListener(FocusEvent.FOCUS_IN, onFocus);
 contactForm[form_field_arr[i]].addEventListener(FocusEvent.FOCUS_OUT, outFocus);
 contactForm[form_field_arr[i]].addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, txErrorCheck);
 appResizeHandler();
 private function txErrorCheck(event:Event):void {
 if (contactForm.txError.text.length>0) {
 contactForm.txError.text = "";
 private function onFocus(event:FocusEvent):void {
 //trace('dd')
 for (var i:int=0; i<form_field_arr.length; i++) {
 if (event.target.name==form_field_arr[i]) {
 var text_field_index = i;
 if (contactForm[form_field_arr[text_field_index]].text==form_def_cont_arr[text_field_index]) {
 contactForm[form_field_arr[text_field_index]].text='';
 private function outFocus(event:FocusEvent):void {
 for (var i:int=0; i<form_field_arr.length; i++) {
 if (event.target.name==form_field_arr[i]) {
 var text_field_index = i;
 if (contactForm[form_field_arr[text_field_index]].text=='') {
 contactForm[form_field_arr[text_field_index]].text=form_def_cont_arr[text_field_index];
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 var emailExpression:RegExp = /^[a-z][\w.-]+@\w[\w.-]+\.[\w.-]*[a-z][a-z]$/i;
 return emailExpression.test(email);
 private function appResizeHandler(e:Event=null):void {
 if (stage) {
 var oWidth:Number = stage.stageWidth;
 var oHeight:Number = stage.stageHeight;
 if (container) {
 oWidth = container.width;
 oHeight = container.height;
 if (mainObj.monitorHeight>0) {
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 } else {
 bg.height = oHeight-20;
 if (mainObj.monitorWidth>0) {
 bg.width = mainObj.monitorWidth;
 } else {
 !container?bg.width = oWidth-20:bg.width = oWidth-140;
 b_close.y=0;
 b_close.x = bg.x+bg.width+5;
 txt.width = bg.width - 50;
 header_bg.width =bg.width-6;
 this.y =Math.round((oHeight-bg.height)/2);
 this.x =Math.round((oWidth-bg.width)/2);
 mainObj.footerMenu.x= bg.width-13;
 mainObj.footerMenu.y= bg.height-13;
 title_1.width = bg.width-40;
 item_1.width = bg.width-40;
 item_2.width = bg.width/2-30;
 item_3.width = item_2.width;
 item_3.x = item_2.x+item_2.width+20;
 title_2.width = bg.width-40;
 contactForm.txt_name.width = item_2.width;
 contactForm.txt_phone.width = item_2.width;
 contactForm.txt_email.width = item_2.width;
 contactForm.txError.width = item_2.width;
 contactForm.txt_message.width = item_2.width;
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 item_3.y = item_1.y+item_1.height+10;
 if (item_2.y+item_2.height>item_3.y+item_3.height) {
 title_2.y = item_2.y+item_2.height+10;
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 contactForm.y = Math.round(title_2.y+title_2.height+10);

SWF File question...PLEASE HELP

I've been asked to edit a Flash web site. The page they want
me to edit has a form on it, but they only have the .swf file. I've
opened it in Flash and am able to make the required changes, but
they thing I wanted to know is will the form be affected if I then
re export it as a .swf file or will it still work as it did before?
Thanks for your help,
Lucy

Lucy4,
> The HTML file is for a seperate form on the site.
Okay. Sometimes people provide two versions ... a "jazzy"
Flash version
and a "plain vanilla" HTML version. If that form is a
different one
altogether, then the variables required by form-mail.pl might
have nothing
to do with the variables required by the script to which your
SWF must
submit. Until we know how form-mail.pl works, we simply don't
know what to
send to it.
It *might* be the case that form-mail.pl was written to
receive *any*
variables. You won't know until you try. Send whatever
variables you like
and see what comes out at the other end (whoever it is that
receives the
email sent by the Perl script).
Then again, it might be the case that form-mail.pl requires
a certain
set of variables. If those variables are different from the
ones you showed
me in that HTML form, you'll have to find out what those
variables are.
That only makes sense, right?
> So does that mean then that I don't need to add any
> additional code to the HTML page that the Flash
> form will be on?
An HTML page *could* have both an HTML form and a Flash
form, by why
would a developer do that? It would confuse people ... you
can already hear
them asking, "Which form should I fill out?" When a developer
produces two
versions, they're both completely separate. Some developers
like to provide
site visitors with a Flash version of the site and a
non-Flash version of
the site -- but they're never provided side-by-side on the
same HTML page.
Your Flash form has nothing to do with existing HTML on the
page --
other than the <object> and <embed> tags
necessary to embed the SWF in the
document. There shouldn't be a form on the SWF's HTML page at
all.
> Also I've added the following code to the submit button
> on the Flash file, but am not sure if it will work okay:
>
> on (release) {
> if (!realname.length) {
> EmailStatus = "Please Enter your name before Sending";
> }
This code might work and it might not. Without know what
it's supposed
to do, I can't answer the question.
First, you're checking of an
object, realname, has a length property greater than zero.
The way this is
written, you're coincidentally checking of the realname
object has a length
property at all. My question to you is, what sort of object
is realname?
Is it a String? Is it an Array?
My guess is that it's a String (after all the String class
does define a
String.length property), but if so, where is this string
coming from? Does
realname represent an input text field somewhere in your SWF?
If so, you
should probably be referencing that text field's
TextField.text property.
In other words, you presumably have an input text field in
your movie, and
that text field's instance name is realname. Since realname
is an instance
of the TextField class, you'll use the TextField.text
property to retrieve
the text inside that text field. And since TextField.text
returns a string,
you can use the expression realname.text in place of your
string in the
expression myString.length. Combined, that would be ...
if (realname.text.length == 0)
... or ...
if (!realname.text.length)
Does that make sense to you? If it doesn't, that's fine, but
it means
you need to familiarize yourself with what it means to use
objects in
ActionScript.
The next part ...
EmailStatus = "Please Enter your name before Sending";
... might mean something, too. But I have no idea what
EmailStatus is. Is
that a variable you'll be using later? There is no
EmailStatus entry in the
ActionScript Language Reference, so this must be something
you've defined or
written somewhere. Without that description from you, I have
no way of
telling you what EmailStatus is for -- or, for example, if it
can be set to
a String, as you've done here.
> loadVariablesNum ("snowMailPHP.php", "0", "Post");
> EmailStatus = "Sending...";
Now, this part may be fine. I don't know what
snowMail.PHP.php is.
Presumably, it's a form handler. If so, it's either a form
handler that can
handle exactly the variables you'll be sending or any
variables at all.
Your second parameter, "0", is incorrect. That needs to be a
Number, not a
String (see the loadVariablesNum entry of the ActionScript
Language
Reference for details).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Beginner resize from fla question

I have constructed an animation in a flash fla file (i.e. pre
to generating swf) which is on a 800x 600 px canvas
For aesthetic reasons It does not work well on site at that
size and I now want to make the final swf at 400 x 300px
if I resize the canvas the layers and animation does not
scale down
is there any way to resize the whole thing - or display it
half size on the final page
it would be a pain to have to rebuild the whole thing again
from scratch - resize for every layer and every key frames, yikes!
any suggestions/ workarounds appreciated
gav

Hi,
Does your SWF include any bitmaps or any content that may be
affected with resizing? if so, you can resize your SWF from the
HTML, just write the new size instead of the old one in the SWF
size in the html.
If your SWF includes content that may be affected with
resizing such as bitmaps, then you have to go the hard way. When
you write the new document size, you will find the content are
fixed to the top left of your new size, so you will need to edit
the parts in the right and bottom of your Flash. You can use Edit
Multiple Frames (The icon in the time line bottom bar) option to
edit more than one keyframe at once, just drag the indicators to
include all the frames your want to edit. This will help alot and
reduce the needed effort to editing each keyframe.
I know how painful this problem is, but I hope this helps
alittle

AS3 swf tiny question

I have a feeling that I know the answer to this. I am not
terribly savvy on Actionscript (basic sklls, not expert)..and not
in 3.0 at all!!!!!!!! I have a website that is done nearly all in
Flash with AS2.0. I recently added a video player from a video
aggregator, but their player is AS3.0.
All I could do was to build an html page and embed the AS 3
player into that. I prefer the seamlessness that Flash provides. Is
there ANY possible way to embed an AS3 swf file into an AS2
website.
I just cannot completely rebuild the entire website right now
in 3.0!!!!
Is there ANY simple solution? I cannot believe that I am the
only person who is having issues like this...Ugh!!!!
thanks for any help you can offer.

you can't use an as2 file to load an as3 file and have the
as3 file work.
you can use getURL() to load your as3's embedding html file.
if you want it to look seemless, you can load into the same window
so the user will see your as2 content replaced by the as3 swf.
in the as3 swf you can put code to load your as2's embedding
html file (using navigateToURL()). so, you can go back and forth
between your as2 and as3 swfs.

SWF "Catalogue" Question

Hi there - I've created a beautiful SWF catalogue that I want to share with several people.
The people who I want to view it are essentially luddites: unfortunately the SWF file is too large to attach in an email. I have considered sending it via something like DropBox, Yousendit, etc., but I doubt that they would understand how to access the file. On the other hand, I think they would be able to click a link - but I need is a site where I can post the SWF. Does such a site exist, and if so, what is it? Thanks!

http://docs.google.com/ ?

Converting SWF/FLA to Quicktime movie help

Hey,
I'm having issues converting a semi-old flash file into a quicktime video. I've been moving a lot of work to .mov files lately and off of a flash based file, the conversion actually worked perfectly on a previous video but I can't seem to get it to work on this file. During the conversion it just gets hung up on recording the flash file and I'm forced to cancel. Creating a AVI yields the same result (no that I want a AVI, just saying).
I thought of a few things that may have been making it act like this, so I deleted things like the play/replay button and what not, but no good. Can Flash not export to a Quicktime if there are Actionscripts present? I'm pretty much at a loss. I've uploaded the full file, untouched from my tampering here. http://www.iamgrafik.com/grafik_flash_002.fla Any insight or help is appreciated. Or if you can convert it out, that'd be great too (bad for me still though, since it's a problem on my end....)

but none of you have descibed the "problem" - hard to
troubleshoot something when we dont know what
is wrong.
see this (i post this article several times because this
issue is asked almost every week):
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_to_video.html
maybe your issue will be resolved after reading it...?
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whammy_boy wrote:
> Zooper1,
>
> I am having the same problem, just posted a new thread
about it, but nobody has responded so far. Obviously very few
people have experienced it.

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