Hi, I've got a flash header saved as a .swf and its a flash movie. I have no other files accompanying this. Link to header: http://gscripts.gingerapple.com/BeautyShowerHeader.swf (its higher quality than that, its just stretched to fit the browser window!) There are spaces in the bottom (orange bars, hover over them makes a noise) and I was wondering how I could edit those links so that they actualyl directed to a page, and so that they have text on them? When I open it in flash it says "Error opening URL" then gives the path to it, ".../vmprxe.txt" Any suggestions/information would be greatly appreciated Thanks! Will
you cannot edit a .swf, you need the Flash source file it was generated from (a .fla) If you have contracted work and they failed to deliver the .fla along with the .swf you should probably contact them.
I was afraid that might be the answer... Any software or trick to get a .swf into a .fla in order to be edited?
That flash file was encoded to use "vmprxe.txt" to display the links you wish. That text file would be editable. The SWF file needs that file to display any text or links that go along with it. (was that the exact path given in the error ?) The only way to edit the flash file is to have the source .FLA file.
there are ways to attempt to decompile the SWF back into an FLA, but you have teams of people trying it versus teams of the industries best at Adobe working to make it not possible, for the security of the site owners who deploy a SWF to keep their content safe. Not a good route.
@Scoopy: It wasn't the exact path shown in the error, I just didn't fancy typing out my whole C:\Documents... etc Would there by any way to 'guess' the syntax needed to make these links display so that I could make my own version of vmprex.txt or would that be a long and near-impossible route too? @Innovati: I don't think that sort of man power is going to come cheap, ill pass
Guessing the syntax would probably be like trying to guess what web page designers name their CSS classes... I have a flash file that was set up like yours and it goes something like this: name=My Blog&button1=HOME&&rep=replay&url1=index.php Code (markup):