I have a .fla file with some text that I want to get at. Is there a free app than you can use to open .fla files, or just a tool to dump strings and pics?
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A:
With such question, I just experiment...
I went to deviantART, went to the Flash .FLA Files gallery and downloaded one at random.
I got a .fla file of about 1MB.
I went to Sysinternals's site to get the latest version of Strings, a command line tool to extract plain text strings from binary files.
Ran:
strings -n 10 "D:\Archives\scrolling flash gallery with preloader.fla" > str
Got at text file with lot of data you have to sort yourself...
There are some other similar freewares utilities, some with GUI, but this command line version is handy. Works with both (or either) Unicode and Ansi strings.
Oh, obviously it is for Windows. You forgot to specify if you target a specific platform.
PS.: for what it is worth, I believe the Flash SDK is free at Adobe's site. You just don't have the Flash IDE, only a compiler, etc. for AS development. Perhaps it includes a tool to look at .fla files (not tried the toolkit yet).
PhiLho
2008-11-22 10:08:13
Yup -- ended up getting the trial Flash CS4, a hefty 900MB, half-hour-install beauty that will bork your current flash player and requires killing firefox... :-)
friism
2008-11-22 18:48:37
The Flex SDK does not provide a means to work with .fla files, only to work with compiled fla files (that is .swf or .swc files)
Simon Groenewolt
2009-01-20 17:05:47