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@Joeyg said:@filet0fish said:Why are you trying to edit the fla file directly? As I already mentioned in between all the off topic office file format ramblings, Flash has a perfectly good scripting feature (straight javascript, not proprietary crap) built into the application. There is no reason to directly mess with the fla.
Use the right tool for the job.
Suppose I was working for a construction company, and they had given me these threaded nails that for some reason cost hundreds of times as much as normal nails (or screws, for that matter). They're made by a company called Plaster, say. But my boss wanted to use them because they were a "Building 2.0" shop. So I haul the Dremel out and start grooving the heads of threaded nails, trying to get them to interface with a drill bit. All the while, I'm bitching about these idiot-nail-screw-things, about how everything Plaster makes is worthless shit.
Also the threads are real tacky somehow (materials science ftw), so they drive very slowly and waste a lot of power, heating up the drill and shortening its life. If you try using it with any decent sort of wood (say, that of the Linux trees, or god forbid, 64-bit wood of any kind), it's even worse. Structurally, the building is shit and also the build search engine companies can't grok it, so good luck finding studs once the drywall is up.
In this situation, I would quit after grooving first few dozen screw-nails, assuming I even made it that far. (For some reason, there is often big money in this sort of work.)
However, you, apparently, would smack me upside the head for dremeling them, say "use the right tool for the job", and start hammering the screw-nails into the wood, and then, presumably filling the holes with caulk to hold them in place.
Suppose I were working for a construction company that made bad analogies...