How to Modify Existing SWF file

Hi all,
I'm new in flash, now I facing a problem here, ahyone of you know how to modify the the existing swf file? I would like to change the image inside the existing swf, what should I do so that I can change it?

maybe you can try to import the .swf file to the library and edit it from there...!!!

hugs,
berjoe

Yep, I agree!!

No Fla, you can only import. I just hope you did not block it from import in the publish settings, if you did you could hack the swf, but that would result in one ugly fla file...lol

*Not that I would know about hacking fla's or anything...I promise...no really I would never ever do such a rotten thing to someone else's swf. I promise Rob!!*

Its no problem it could easily be done. You need a swf decompiler go there an download... oh it's only a free trial but it works();

http://www.sothink.com/product/flash...iler/index.htm

I have not used this software, but I think it still outputs all in one frame. Also you don't get to see any of the action script code. But nothing wrong with trying it...lol

It shows all in their own layer linke the .fla file + you get to see all the action scripts aswell, try it & u'll see

"linke", i meant like

Cool, I will, that way is much better than trying to hack your own Fla file. That happened to me one time, I learned my lesson, took me one hour to hack my own swf. I should have searched google....lol

does it also work for the protected .swf file...?

Don't know, but when I lost the fla for my old website, my protected swf took me about an hour to hack by hand...and it put everything all in one layer, and lost all of my hand coded actionscript. So I ended up rebuilding my website...lol

And now I love the Sothink...!!! I did tried it and now I love it...!!! and yes it can hacked the protected file...!!! yay...!!!

hugs,
berjoe

Yeah, to bad it is $60 bucks. We need to find an open source one.

I hacked the program already..! hihihi...
I'm sorry Sothink but I cannot afford $60 at the moment...! ;-p

hugs,
berjoe

Yeah, does the actionscript part work?

yes somehow it does...! but still finding a little problem when trying to do the test movie, and also some particles also might missing...

hugs,
berjoe

Yeah, I wonder wither the paid version does sound? I don't really want to mess with it if they can't get the sound as well. So many swf's have sound now. So it would be pointless if you don't get the sound with it. Not to mention I feel kind of bad, stilling someone else's flash file.

indeed..! it does also the sounds and the actionScripts, only it doesn't decompile perfectly...
It's true, it's making me feel bad if I'm stealling someone else's flash file, but I'm using it to study how can all those amazing flash sites going on...!
And mostly when I check the actionScripts they are very advanced, I couldn't even understand...

hugs,
berjoe

Really the more I think about it, I don't feel bad. Website designers do this all of the time. They find a website they like, they then copy the XHTML or CSS or whatever code, and change some things, and add a little of their own flavor to the website. But until now, this was not possible for flash websites, you could not see how they did their website, but now you can. So in a way, everything is now at a level playing field so to speak. I can see code in HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, Pear, JavaScript, and now flash. So everything thing is fair....or at least that is how I get to sleep at night…lol

And now you can sleep like a baby...! ;-p

hugs,
berjoe