CODEWITHSUNDEEP
actionscript-3flashautomation
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Reputation: 67

Command-line .fla to .swf file compilation?

I have to create about 30 different .swf from a single .fla, where the only difference between them are a couple actionscript 3 strings, used to set some text on the final .swf.

My current approach is to do it manually, change the strings on each .fla and compile to .swf. Naturally, this takes a lot of time and it's a task that can be done more efficiently.

The new approach I would like to take is to edit the strings in the .fla files (in its XLF form) using some other programming language, and then use a command-line tool to compile to .swf. If such command-line tools exists (and for linux), then I can create an interface on a web app that automatically generates these files on request.

So far, I haven't been able to find any command-line tool that suits my purpose. And although there are similar stackoverflow questions on this matter, these are very old and maybe a tool like this exists now. If this is not the case, what other approach would you recommend in order to automate this tedious task?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1017

Answers (1)

fsbmain
fsbmain

Reputation: 5267

There isn't command line fla->swf tools, but you can consider two options:

  1. you can do all the work that you done manually but with the JSFL script. You can also write *.bat script (or bash for Linux) for launching this jsfl. In this case you still need Flash Pro for building.

  2. consider to modify your fla in a such a way, when you can use it as an asset for the mxmlc project, so you can embed this swf, create asset in runtime, apply your changes using mxmlc conditional compiling and add child to the stage. In this case you need Flash Pro only for building your asset.

Upvotes: 1

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