Flash decompilation

[Marcus]

Is there a way to decompile a flash
file back to it's source code?

I saw a great flash movie and I
want to take it apart to see how
they did something....

[pr0]

http://astalavista.box.sk

[kmanrox]

dcompa what?

eye misst out onn colledge sry

[NetRodent]

I guess I'm spending too much time on rotten.com. I thought this post was about Flesh Decomposition...

[AdultWire]

Not possible I'm afraid.. there's no direct relationship between a .swf file and it's orginal source file. In fact, there's not even a way to determine what format the source code was in (flash,livemotion,proprietary).

On the OTHER hand, you can reduce it to it's primary elements (pictures/sounds/actionscripts) -- try this: http://www.swifftools.com/stools/ -- download SWF browser. You may also need a flash deprotecter depending on if it's password protected.

[winter]

oh wow that's really helpful adultwire. I've been trying to figure out a way to extract the sound from some flash stuff for a while now.

[the26]

what are you trying to gigure out?

[Direktor]

Thats is fucking lame, why don't you grab a book or go to flashkit.com to learn how to use flash, Or use their message board to ask how to do something?

Flash is very hard and annoying to work with, you could spend many hours working on a site to find out later someone ripped off your work?

fuck off I'd say, thats why that shitty browser won't work on my site.

[Direktor]

or what do you want to do? maybe I could help you

[the26]

that's funny direktor(spelling?), but I have to say--FLASH is a very annoying program!
nothing about it is intuitive. It is very powerfull(again--spelling?) but the way they
laid put the program makes no sense whatsoever(is that a word?)
p.s. I'm looking at my feet

[Sergui]

Guys,

Flash is alot easier to learn from scratch than photoshop is. I have been using flash for about 2 years now and I know all the actionscripting off by heart, I have been using photoshop for about 4 years. I know everything in that and flash was alot easier to learn.

With your question how you can find out how they made the .swf file, You can crack the code then see how they did it but not many people are willing to help you out with that as it is stealing someone's work.

You can import the .swf into flash then depending if they have a password on the .swf or not you can see how they made it. It will all be on one layer but still you will have an idea. If they have a password on it (if they are smart) then you cant do anything about from learn flash hard out like I did then you will finally learn how to do it.

Or give me a buzz and I will help you out, and tell you what you want to know about how he made it etc. I will not tell you how to crack .swf's with passwords but I will help you out by doing it then telling you how to make it ok.

Sweet

C ya

[bhutocracy]

Originally posted by Direktor
Thats is fucking lame, why don't you grab a book or go to flashkit.com to learn how to use flash, Or use their message board to ask how to do something?

Flash is very hard and annoying to work with, you could spend many hours working on a site to find out later someone ripped off your work?

fuck off I'd say, thats why that shitty browser won't work on my site.

what he said.

there are SOOOOOOO many tutorials out there it would be easier to find one and do it than finding the shit to rip it off with..plus you'd actually learn how to do it so next time you wont have to look to rip off someon's IP.

[AdultWire]

Web masters have been reverse engineering each other's shit for years. Buying a book won't tell you anything cutting edge.

There's a line between good and bad, and it's up to the individual to decide whether or not he's going to cross it.

Knowledge is power.

[AdultWire]

BTW, about macromedia flush -- it sucks dick. Gotta be the worst mockup of a programming environment I've ever seen. The worst part isn't the unintuitive user interface, or any of that shit.. it's the fact that it doesn't work.

I just had to spend a month re-doing a catalog for one of my customers, because 4 flash commands didn't work in a certain context -- a KNOWN bug, but not a DOCUMENTED bug. Their documentation is garbage.

[vegasdude]

quite easy just use deflasher.... even if its protected in flash5 it opens up the shit 4 you to edit

how I know this...hehe well don't all with respect for themselves get the tools needed to make badazz sites...

[bhutocracy]

Originally posted by AdultWire
Web masters have been reverse engineering each other's shit for years. Buying a book won't tell you anything cutting edge.

There's a line between good and bad, and it's up to the individual to decide whether or not he's going to cross it.

Knowledge is power.

theres a difference between "reverse engineering" by someone with enough knowhow to see how something was done, maybe even learning a little as they do it and flat out stealing code and replacing images/variables/text.. if you don't value the knowledge you won't retain it for next time you need to come up with something..

books will have stuff thats "cutting edge" for people that have to steal code to do it.... whats the point of stealing cutting edge yugop or wireframe.co.za if you don't understand it?