Opening SWISHMax files in Flash 8?

Jasconius

Is there a plugin for Flash 8 that allows you to open and edit Flash docs created in SWISH?

Szechuanosaurus

From what I can tell of SWISH's website, it uses the standard .swf file format. Or at least it can export to that file format. So either the file you have can be opened in Flash 8 or you can export the file from SWISH to .swf (downloading the free trial if necessary).

That's assuming you're dealing with an actual document rather than a compiled movie. If you are trying to open the later, you need to find a third-party decompiler and bear in mind that what you're doing may not necessarily be legal depending on whether you have permission to decompile someone else's work!

Jasconius

SWF's ARE the compiled documents. That's not doing any good if they have to be edited.


SWISH max files have their own extension and aren't readable by Flash 8 at default... which is why I made the thread.

Szechuanosaurus

Oh yeah. .fla is the editable format for flash. Durr.

Ok, well have you tried using a decompiler? I've never used one before so I don't know how well they work, but it'd be an option. They should theoretically break the .swf back up into an editable .fla again. So you could export the project to .swf format and then decompile it to an .fla that you can edit in flash.

It's hardly a very smooth workflow, but might be the best you'll get. Dunno if that's any good to you.

Jasconius

Decompiling would be more annoying than dealing with SWISH.

It's an atrocious program to work with, for cheap bastards who, I guess, are trying to sell Flash without buying the real thing.

I've been editing them, painstakingly, in SWISH, and it takes twice as long... but probably at least equal to reverse engineering the compiled version.

Adobe should really shut that company down.

Thread over, unless someone finds that plugin in the next 24 hours.