Any Windows External coders out there?

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Wed Jun 4 03:33:01 EDT 2003


> >>
> > You can get that if you don't read in the file as binary. Try:
> >
> >  decompress(url ("binfile:test.swf"))
>
> Monte,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but the way a Version 6 SWF is created you
> can't decompress the file like that.  The first 8 bytes are
> uncompressed data which contain the file signature ("FWS" or "CWS" if
> compressed), file version and file size (after decompression if
> compressed).

If you get a decompressed file and make a compressed version with a flash
tool and make a compressed version with rev then compare them you should
work out very quickly what's going on.

Cheers

Monte




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