[swfmill] Accessing frames in AS3

[Joel Poloney]

Here's a link to the updated swf's without compression:
http://joel.poloney.com/newswfs.zip.

-- Joel

On Nov 13, 2007 7:36 PM, Mark Winterhalder <mark13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, here's a hexdump of the first 16B of flash9.swf. flash8.swf, apart
> from the version byte, is identical:
>
> 43 57 53 09 00 01 00 00  78 9c 4b 60 50 3b c0 60
>
> Here's the same after the swf2xml2swf cycle:
>
> 43 57 53 09 00 01 00 00  78 da 4b 60 50 3b c0 60
>
> So, there is a difference. The problem is, I have forgotten that it
> would have to be an uncompressed SWF. Could you do another without
> compression, please?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 11:34 PM, Joel Poloney <jpoloney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's the url to a zip file that contains an eclipse Flex 2 project:
> > http://joel.poloney.com/SWFMill.zip (I wasn't sure if I could attach it
> to
> > the mailing list, so I put it on my own site).
> >
> > It's pretty simple. There are 2 flash files: flash8.swf and flash9.swf.
> > These have been compiled in Flash 8/AS2 and Flash 9/AS3 respectively
> (via
> > Flash CS3). These movie file are both 4 frame movies (I made a square
> and
> > colored it differently in each frame). You can go ahead and run a
> > swf2xml/xml2swf on the flash9.swf and modify the SWFMill.mxml file
> > accordingly. You will want to uncomment out the movie.gotoAndStop line
> too.
> > When you run this as a Flex application, it'll complain about the AVM
> > versions when you using the flash8.swf and the swf2xml/xml2swf version
> of
> > flash9.swf (flash9.swf works fine, though).
> >
> > I think that swfmill is compiling this into Flash 9, but with AS2 and
> not
> > AS3 (which is required for Flex). pdf2swf also ran into a similar
> problem a
> > few months ago. You can see that thread here:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/swftools-common@nongnu.org/msg01107.html.
> >
> > In the meantime, I'm going to try to create this LocalConnection wrapper
> to
> > communicate between AS2 and AS3 movies. And, I'd love to help out with
> the
> > documentation of this. At least I could provide some good documentation
> on
> > this specific problem :)
> >
> > -- Joel
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 13, 2007 1:22 PM, Mark Winterhalder <mark13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If a SWF that gets imported as AVM2 gets imported as AVM1 after an
> > > xml2swf/swf2xml round/trip, then there is indeed something going
> > > wrong. If you can provide a very, very simple SWF where that happens,
> > > I'll see if I can find the problem looking at a hexdump when I find
> > > the time, so somebody can fix it.
> > >
> > > Regarding your previous mail, there are two different XML dialects.
> > > Swfmill works with swfml-ll ("low level") internally, it's what
> > > swf2xml gives you, essentially an XML representation of the SWF tags.
> > > swfml-s ("simple") is the one most people use, but it's actually just
> > > a built-in standard xslt stylesheet that gets transformed to swfml-ll.
> > >
> > > As far as documentation is concerned, there is some, but not as much
> > > as one could hope for. Ideally questions answered here would go
> > > straight to the wiki -- you're welcome to help.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> >
> >
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