Edit Flash w/out Raw Files?

[CJTyo]

A friend of a friend had someone design his business website, but for whatever reason they're not doing maintenance AND didn't leave any raw files. I'm not sure what the behind-the-scenes story is... what the problem for ME is, I've been asked to make a few corrections and edits to the site.

There is a piece that is Flash 7 with a wrong link that I need to fix. But I don't have the raw flash files...

Any thoughts or ideas on how I can edit this link without those raw files? I've played around with Flash a litte bit, back under version 5 I think it was, so am definitely NOT an experienced user or designer!

Thanks!
C

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[oldnewbie]

You might be in a jam! Unless you got one of these decomplilers (apparently some now allow you to re-create a .fla and thus edit it...But I could be wrong on that!), and could edit it in some way.

Otherwise, you could allways create a new project, load the .swf you have, in this new .fla, and add an invisible button over the faulty link. That invisible button would override the present link, and you could easily set a new one that way.

Best I can think of.

Is this .swf online? A link?

 

[natedeia]

can't you go into the HTML file and edit some text that way, if visable? right oldnewbie?

 

[oldnewbie]

In this case, don't see what you could do in the html alone...

 

[natedeia]

yea, i have an html file and the swf, i viewed source on the html and it has some of the text there, i have seen it there before and just assumed that you could change it there if wanted, but guess not.

 

[CJTyo]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm trying to avoid any hacks, and I really don't want to redo the whole deal...

Natedeia, what you see in the HTML file is probably just the HTML text, I'm not aware of any portion of Flash that is visible in HTML outside the .swf compiled file. In any case, there's nothing visible here to edit - the .swf file is completely closed.

As oldnewbie said, I'm stuck I guess. <shrug>

Thanks again.
C

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[oldnewbie]

As I said loading the existing .swf in a new document, is not that hard or long, and replacing 1 faulty link won't be that much work either, so...

 

[brownie01]

If the swf file is not to complex, ie not much animation, you can import it into flash. You will loose some things perhaps but it will at least give you a place to start.

 

[CJTyo]

Thanks. I'll have to play around with it and see how it goes.

C

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