Flash

Mar 28 2012

Editing Text within SWF files!

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Today I was faced with the problem of changing a string within an SWF file, though I took it more of as an interesting challenge.

A colleague of mine had compiled an SWF using Adobe Captivate – an educational material builder.

Unfortunately, some of the paths were hard-coded and hence it only worked correctly on his own laptop…and I was itching to test something out.

So what does someone do ?

I opened up the file in SoThink SWF Decompiler and attempted to export as an FLV file. More