Flash :: Flash Decompilers... What Can People Do?

How To Avoid The Flash-Decompilers?
Hello!

Now is very easy with *******-Decompiler or others to open your original flash file from a SWF and change it . It is great tool for all of us, but sometimes you don´t want to share that information.

I had been trying to avoid it with an empty base flash that call the real movie and the decompiler just can get the empty movie. But when i do it i can not call another movies from the real movie.

Someone know how to solvent this problem or how to avoid the decompilers?

Thanks!

Flash Decompilers - Good Or Bad?
Since I'm fairly new to the whole Flash scene, and hooked by the way, I'm curious as to how some of you feel about Flash decompilers. They're obviously not illegal since you can buy them. But I imagine there are a lot of people out there who steal other peoples' hard work.
Me personally, I wouldn't get any personal benefit out of doing that. To me there is a lot to be said about self gratification and being proud of the work you produce.

I guess I'm just trying to get a handle on ethics here. This site is all about helping other people. Newbies and vets, right? Actionscript being thrown around left and right. Nobody expects to get paid for something they've learned and want to share with the other people on this site. Or so it would seem.

Is there a limit to what people share. I mean if you come up with some really kick -ss script that does the coolest thing on your Web site or in your game, would you share it or sell it.

The reason I'm asking is there is a really cool site and it's been mentioned on this site before. www.neostream.com. It's got this little character named Shockboy on there that you can slap the crap out of and he does short little animations depending on the velocity and placement of the mouse movement.

Now here's the thing. They're selling the script for this little guy for $25. Or, I got a friend at work who's got one of these decompilers that I can use and buy a weeks worth of smokes instead. This is the first site I've seen that is selling actionscript. Any other one's seem to just give it away. After all, I just want to disect the script to see if I can figure out how they did it. You know, learn from it? I couldn't care less about the rest of the content. 25$ seems like a lot of money for some actionscript. You should be able to buy the whole .fla for that price. One thing they do include for the $25 is comments.

I guess what I'm getting at here is, the decompiler is legal, but if you use it, then it's illegal? Or only for the sites that are charging for their actionscript.

They say they're selling the script as an educational tool. So obviously someone who buys this script has intentions of using it in some of their own work right? And they know this. Otherwise, why would somebody waste the dough. So, if you apply your own artwork to it there is no copyright infringement. You can view the source code from any Web page you go to. Why would actionscript be any different as long as your not using the other content.

Just wanted to get some views on this. Thanks.

Vman

How To Secure Your Flash From Decompilers ?
Hi,
Is there any method to protect AS in swf flash movies? I mean against some decoding softwares which are in the market to decode swf files such as ASV4 or imperator fla

Thanks

Use Flash Communication Server To Protect Actionscript From Decompilers?
I've been trolling the web almost non-stop for the past week trying to figure out if there is some way to protect ActionScript code from SWF decompilers. (Obviously the answer I came up with is a resounding no.) Some forums that I visited seemed to imply that by using .ASC files on a Flash Communication Server and using Flash Remoting, that you can have Flash movies run ActionScript code server-side, thus preventing any web browser clients from accessing the ActionScript source code. Is this really true, or am I just starting to hallucinate? Basically, I am wondering if there is some way to place all of the classes that I have created for a Flash project in server-side ActionScript, so that anyone who visits and manages to decompile the SWF cannot see the actual ActionScript code? Since this project is for a corporate business, I guess you can assume that I have "infinite" bandwidth at my disposal.

Some People It Updates, Some People Not...
Hey guys -- mainly oldnewbie...I'm having a connection problem -- Heres my code so far...

//Create the LoadVars object and load data into it
ind = new Array();
name = new Array();
team = new Array();
hp = new Array();
ap = new Array();
x = new Array();
y = new Array();

ih = new String()
nh = new String()
th = new String()
hh = new String()
ah = new String()
xh = new String()
yh = new String()

nh = ""
th = ""
hah = ""
xyh = ""

myData = new LoadVars();
myData.load("http://68.59.134.62/live.php");
myData.onLoad = function(succes){
    for(var i=0; i<33; i++){
        ind = this["ind"+i];
        name = this["name"+i];
        team = this["team"+i];
        hp = this["hp"+i];
        ap = this["ap"+i];
        x = this["x"+i];
        y = this["y"+i];
        // A few traces to check...

        nh = nh + name + "<br>";
        th = th + team + "<br>";
        hah = hah + hp + ", " + ap + "<br>";
        xyh = xyh + x + ", " + y + "<br>";
        //trace("ind"+i+": "+ind);
        //trace("name"+i+": "+name);
        //trace("team"+i+": "+team);
        //trace("hp"+i+": "+hp);
    }
        NamesTxt.htmlText = nh;
        TeamsTxt.htmlText = th;
        hpapTxt.htmlText = hah;
        xyTxt.htmlText = xyh;

};
myData.unload
myData = null

Now, my problem, I have 2 layers, 1 with the actionscript in like 15 frames (not 15 keyframes), and the text boxes in a 2nd frame -- now the problem is...some people see it refresh, others dont.

What would be the best way to be refreshing this php in flash?? -- if the people go to live.php in IE -- and hit refresh, it takes no time at all to refresh all the data.

Why are some people not getting the refresh and others are?

Oldnewbie, if you want the files to look at email me at tktiger@tkwired.com -- I will send them to you...I need to have everyone that sees the flash document to be able to be getting these refreshed values pretty quickly.

Pls Help Me Flash People
Chat console project

I'm making a chat console with text fields. I'm having diffculties getting the chat boxes to "talk" with eachother. I need the user to be able to type into the bottom text field & it to display in the top text field.I need this to happen when the user presses the enter key, but 4 now I can use a button to attach this action to just get it to work. This is what i have so far(inthe object actions, of the button)...

on (release) {
gChatHistory.str = gChatHistory.str+gChat.str;
}

When I test, the result is that the bottom text field displays the text, BUT it dosn't transfer the typed text into the top textfield. I'm a begginer in programming, but I'm ready to try almost anything. Pls dish out the ideas,
thank-you
Missy14

Flash Help People
Hey all.. im thinking of doing a project with flash for a univeristy project, i was thinking of doing a childrens learning tool.. what do u think? is this a good idea? if so, wat could i include? what features? plz help a lad in need.. thank u..

Are You People STILL Using Flash 5?
****...enough said...

Are You People Still Using Flash 5?
this was a contreversial earlyer this year, though i would bring it back up.

i am not, i use MX.

-mike

Need Some Information About You Flash People
Hi, I am new to all these graphic designing stuff and I am very excited and ready to learn. What I wanted to know is how everyone started off learning flash. I am planning on taking a 5 week course on flash do you guys think it's a good idea? My major is Graphic design so Flash will come in handy in the future for me. Please tell me what else do I need to learn in order to master flash. I know a little bit of Photoshop and Frontpage. Any other programs I should know in order to make a good flash site? How did you guys learn flash, through school or just reading tutorials? I've try reading the tutorials and they are a great help but what they teach me isn't enough to get me start because I don't even know what to do first. WEll anyways, reading the forums motivate me alot into making a flash site! Thanks!

Advanced Flash People Only
Hi guys. I've done a flash movie and I need to cut the file size down can you help? The movie (moving news) is at http://www.introspection.f2s.com click on 'moving news'.

All the headlines are seperate tweened graphics placed into a movie. There are 5 movies playing together - is this making the file size big? There must be another way of getting the same effect. Can you think of any actionscript I could incorporate to cut it down? Its 500k athe moment and i'd like it to be 200-250ish max.

In Flash Mx, How Do Allow People To Subscribe....
In flash mx, how do allow people to subscribe for services, and have that information e-mailed to my account??

How Many People Actually Have Flash 6 Player?
Hello,

I'm just wondering how many people actually have the Flash 6 player installed on their computer... is their a publication that gives the statistics of how many people have each version of Flash player on their computer?

I'm making a site, and I wanna take into consideration how many users will be able to view my site without being inconvenienced to go download a newer version of the Flash player.

How Many People Actually Have The Flash 6 Player?
Hello,

I'm just wondering how many people actually have the Flash 6 player installed on their computer... is their a publication that gives the statistics of how many people have each version of Flash player on their computer?

I'm making a site, and I wanna take into consideration how many users will be able to view my site without being inconvenienced to go download a newer version of the Flash player.

Helping People With Flash
Hello, everyone.
I have written a few books or so (technical ones that is, though I have written more novels) and I thought - why not do one about Flash?

However, I wanted to make it different.
Firstly, I decided I wasn't going to write it alone (unless I really had to).
Therefore I am asking anyone who wishes to submit scraps of information, help, snippets of code or even a full chapter to reply to this post. I really would like people to help me out.

The plan is, I will write chapters of my own of course, but also meld in a compendium of everyone elses. No ones name will be on the front cover, instead, each person that submitted something will get some space at the front of the book about themselves. The first version will be a free e-book available for download. If that version is succesful, I will think about trying to get it to the publishers. (I have some pretty useful connections with publishers).

Finally, I would be very happy if some people would submit small actual .flas and .swfs to put on a side disk / download. Even if you do not write about it, you get credit for it (although I will undoubtedly end up writing something explaining it).

Any help is appreciated,
Rob

How Do You People Program In Flash?
Hi

I was wondering how you guys go about creating a website in Flash. I try to do as much programming in my first frame, so everything is in one place, but you can imagine that this isn't ideal if there is a lot of code.

I recently started using external .as files to make classes, which is pretty nice in ActionScript 2.0

I know it's also possible to put code in an .as file (not as a class) and use the #include to use the code inside the .fla. So the code is 'cut up' in different parts. However, I don't think this is a nice way of working since there is no real connection between the .fla and the .as. It's just a part of the code that's moved to an external file.

Are there other ways of programming for Flash?

People With Flash And Mac Problems
http://board.flashkit.com/board/anno...php?forumid=47

Why Do People Use Macromedia Flash
Over Adobe Livemotion?

I'm an avid LM user and the flash timeline brings a spine-chilling sensation to me...

Why do people use the MM version?

Have any of you tried livemotion? The whole application is scriptable - like photoshop actions but more complex. And the timeline is object orientated - no keyframes! And no "convert to symbol" required

Could IE People Help With My Flash Site?
Hi everyone.
Since I couldnt find a 'browser' catagory, I was hoping people with different versions of Internet Explorer could help with my Flash site to see if it works?
I was able to get it to work on some IE browsers and not on others.

I believe it may be the activex control on each individual computer preventing it to show up on some. Thanks for any feedback!

How Are People Doing 3D In Flash Now A Days?
I use Photoshop and play around with images to do some 3d looking flash sites but I am realising from flash samples that people are using actionscript.

How are people doing 3d now adays in Flash and what techniques do you think a person should pursue that will not make teh skill obsolete.

Are people exporting image sequence into Flash from 3D applications to make 3d flash sites?

How Do I Redirect People After A Flash Intro
how do I redirect people after a flash intro to a another html page?

Thanks

Warning To Non Flash Player People
I use flash mostly within dreamweaver. It seems people are still weary for me to design with flash for the fear of people not being able to view the page.

Is there some kind of code I can paste into my html warning people with older browsers who don't have flash that they have to download it & where to get it.

????

Learning From Other People's Flash Files
I am totally new at using Flash. Is there any way of maybe taking a sample Flash file from the internet and kinda dissect it to see how it is done?

Can someone tell me if that is possible and the steps to do it. Appreciate it very much.

How Do People Create This Effect In Flash?
http://www.philipkoether.com/

how do they create the part of the intro when the lines form and outline the image???

[F8] Flash Site Not Working For Some People, But I Don't Know Why
hi there, i was hoping someone could help me out...
i have a site which has been online for quite a while but recently the girl i did it for has been getting a lot of messages from people saying they can't see it.

unfortunately these are all a bit vague:
>
>
> I can only access your html website

>
>
> I've had another attempt to look at the flash version of your website, but I'm still having no luck! We definitely do have Adobe Flash player on our PC at home, and I've even installed the latest version of the Flash player from Adobe, but still no success. Is there any other way I can view your gallery?
>
>
> I tried to access your website but there seemed to be an error.
the site is running just fine for me on both firefox and safari (mac) if someone with a pc could take a peek at it on ie and see what they see that would be cool. also if anyone has an older flash plugin installed (allthough one of the emails said it wasn't that)

i'm used to this sort of shennanigans with css - but i've not had it happen with flash before, i'm stumped

anyway here is the link

Alternative Image For People Without Flash
On my website I have a lot of flas, but i want that the people without flash on their computer see something like an alternative image.
Is this possible?/ And how can I do this??

So What Do People Make Of The Flash 8 Beta?
just wondered what people are thinking about the new plugin. good, bad, indifferent?

How Much Do People Charge For Flash Websites?
Help!

How much do people charge for flash websites???

what's the normal price people pay for a flash website, if anyone could quote me for these website [presuming you made them]

Muse

Waterhorse

Donnie Darko

Blitz Design Studios

If you could, it'd be really helpful, cos i need to know how much is a good price / an expensive price.

If you could put a "price range" like £300 ~ 500 that'd be useful!

cheers!

Starting Flash Series, Need People
Overview of plot: Modern times. Run down city. The main character is a 13 year old boy. His parents were vampires but were killed when he was only 5 by some sort of demonic creatures. He has spent every day since then training to kill whoever killed his parents. He starts getting some leads around when he is 13, where the episodes start. I have the first episode thought out in my head, putting it to paper slowly. the main characters face is drawn. sort of anime looking.

He will have powers such as great strength, jumping very high and long distances, Celerity (great speed), and some minor telekinesis (moving inanimate objects mainly)

The backgrounds will be pictures done with Photoshop or similar programs. the character design will be sketched on paper, and thrown into flash, traced then colored. body parts will be separated ect. each scene will be well thought out and I will do my best to make sure that every ingredient is available before the pizza is put in the oven (ya corny figure of speech but you get the point.)

basically looking for flash animators
concept artists
Photoshop (or any good program like that) artists (mainly for backgrounds. different views ect.
and definitely voice actors.

I will try to piece the team together and maybe get a webpage going after a bit of planning.

Obviously there will be no pay at first, but who is to say we wont get sponsored? Look what happened to Ninjai (.com) they started out 2 or so years ago for fun and it exploded.

If you are interested or know someone who is, My email is dryst@comcast.net

Creating Vector People For Flash
hi

I was wondering what the best method is for creating vector real-looking representations of people for flash. I've seen some good examples (don't have links though, mainly in TV comercials and MTV), is it usally done by importing a photo and rotoscoping it or is it done in another app perhaps in 3d then imported?

I don't need a lot of animation on them, just arms moving.

Thanks

Need Some People To Test 3 New Flash Games
I have developed 3 flash games for a client and I need a few people to "test" them for me this is not something you will be paid for, I would just like to get some feedback on them.

Please PM me if you are interested and I will send you the link.

thanks!
john

Where Do People Get Flash Games For Free
Hello,

I have noticed that some sites offer free flash games to visitors and I wanted to know where these games are gotten? I am looking for Christmas / Santa specific ones and Can't seem to find the site I had found before that said you could download the games for free and put them on your web site.

Any ideas?

4 People Without Flash Player On Their Computer
I have an intro on my site that is a flash movie,

for people that look at my site and do not have a flash player on their computer...is there a link or script that I can write in so that they automatically get a pop-up to install it or download it? thank you

Swf Decompilers...........
is there are any other swf decompilers than *******(*******
swf decompiler) or any tools to open protected movies?

Decompilers
I have a button I made a while ago but I lost the .fla file or I never made one I'm not sure, but I was wondering if any one knew of any free .swf decompilers.

Decompilers?
Help! I had a hard drive crash and lost about 6 months worth of FLA files. I'm trying to find a decompiler, preferably for mac that I could use to recover as much as I can so I can rebuild my FLAs from SWFs. Does anyone have any reccomendations of a decompiler that has worked well for them?

SWF Decompilers
If anyone of you has any experience with decompilers - do the majority of SWF decompilers also extract the code comments?

Sfw Decompilers
I can't believe I'm asking this...

Does anyone know of a good decompiler for swf files? I've got the swf file that we did for this client, but it seems the fla has been "misplaced". I'm really in a bind, and would GREATLY prefer not to have to recreate this beast.

Again, sorry for asking, I know this is a sensitive subject, and for good reason.

Do these things work well, or only about half-assed?

Aaron

De-Decompilers
Is there anyway to protect AS from being decompiled by lazy pr@ts who don't have the brain power and/or can't be bothered to write there own code?

The only way I can think of doing it is to prevent the SWF(s) from being cached by piping them through a PHP file (or something similar)... like this... _root.loadMovie("non-cache.php?swf=theMovie")

I use this method to prevent various files being cached at the moment but obviously don't want to do for every single SWF file to avoid the site having to reload everytime the page is refreshed/reloaded.

Any ideas?

Flash Decompilers... What Can People Do?

sourcetec company has developed last version of swf decompilerit can convert swf to flawhat can do for copyrights?flash will be die

sourcetec company has developed last version of swf decompiler
it can convert swf to fla
what can do for copyrights?
flash will be die