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Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / February 2006Modifying Existing Flase exe files
I have a fried that just bought out a small company, and he inherited their website, including their Flash presentations. Is there any way to modify existing exe files, if he cannot loacte the source information? nope - not that i know of - as urami once said - it's like trying to get the omellette back into the egg. you'll need to find the FLA - if you can't you must rebuild. ****************************************** --> Team Macromedia --> www.mudbubble.com --> www.keyframer.com --> http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/animation_guide.html --> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*flash*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF- 8&oe=UTF-8 > I have a fried that just bought out a small company, and he inherited their > website, including their Flash presentations. Is there any way to modify > existing exe files, if he cannot loacte the source information? I think there's some programs out there that claim to be able to produce an .fla file from an existing .swf (not an .exe), but I don't think they're all that reliable, I think some of them are scams, and above all I honestly believe it's reverse engineering and therefore probably violates many licensing agreements granted by Adobe/MM/Flash to someone who is using it on their site. Obviously I'm no attorney so take that as an extremely "un-barred" opinion. I know there are some legitimate reasons why someone....like your friend who inherits an existing .swf and wants to edit the source code of the .fla. You may want to call Adobe/MM directly and see if there is a way to "prove" you have ownership of the company who originally wrote it and maybe they may have something that can do it. I would think Adobe/MM would also be going after companies that sell such a product because a lot of us developers would like to keep our source code safe through a compiled application like Flash. Just an opinion though. Adobe doesn't have any involvement with the ownership of a FLA - i think in this case - i would be targeting the person or company who authored the FLA and trying everything possible to find it - or at least a back-up of it somewhere first. Dpeneds on the original contract between developer and client as to who owns the rights to the FLA - may developers retain the FLA rights and only deliver the compiled assets to the client. SWF decompilers are available and do a pretty good job of allowing anyone to gain access to the guts of an SWF - but the FLA will always be the best way to retain all editability. ****************************************** --> Team Macromedia --> www.mudbubble.com --> www.keyframer.com --> http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/animation_guide.html --> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*flash*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF- 8&oe=UTF-8 > I think there's some programs out there that claim to be able to produce an > .fla file from an existing .swf (not an .exe), but I don't think they're all [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > product because a lot of us developers would like to keep our source code safe > through a compiled application like Flash. Just an opinion though. |
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