Hey Chris, :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Does anyone know of any work done on reverse engineering the FLA<br>
format? Whenever I Google this topic, all I find are SWF decompilers.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>same here.. although i wasn't pursuing it so seriously till now since i am<br>not actually a software guy.. :) but i was following this list since quite some<br>time for this topic to come up.. <br>
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I've been poking around the format, and I already know it's a basic<br>
Microsoft OLE package, with separate files for project properties,<br>
the stage, and each shape. The properties file is mostly plaintext,<br>
with some binary used to denote the length of the property<br>
names/values. The stage and object files look like they'll be harder<br>
to crack since they're almost entirely binary. However, by comparing<br>
files after toggling values in Adobe's IDE, I've found where<br>
properties like an object's fill color are stored.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>cool ! :) <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There's a lot more work to do, so if there's no prior work done in<br>
this area, would anyone like to collaborate with me in reverse<br>
engineering this format? I've encapsulated what I know so far in a<br>
Python script, which I'll release as open source when complete.</blockquote><div><br>COOL again.. I am in, if you can bear with me for a short while.. only<br>till i catch up with ya.. :) Please do mail me off the list for this if you are<br>
not in a hurry.. :) Saying that because I'll have to learn quite a few things<br>before I can catch up with you. Nevertheless, would love to hear from <br>you in this regard. I've waited too long following this list for this matter<br>
to come up; only that i didn't have enough knowledge to take the initiative<br>myself.. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've also heard rumors on blogs that Adobe might be replacing FLA with<br>
an XML equivalent. Does anyone think there's any truth to this? As<br>
much as I'd like to see it happen, I'm not holding my breath.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>A simple import/export support for a XML based standardised open format <br>would, i guess, set a lot of things straight.. Although i have no idea about<br>those 'rumors' but i would love to see that happen.. lets hope for the best..<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>"Best things in the world are free; FREEDOM is priceless!"<br>kamaleshwar morjal<br>(कमलेश्वर मोरजाल)<br>