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Is there a way of exporting an FLA file to a human-readable format, so that different revisions of a file can be compared?

I found a script for exporting to XML here (post 6): http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=155434 -- but it doesn't work as advertised - e.g. it doesn't export any details of items in the library.

Andrew Gillett
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As i know it was designed to dump only the Library from the Fla file. I have an upgraded version (diff_fla):

You will find 3 script files:

  • FlaToXML.jsfl: xml generator, uses Adobe Flash GUI to produce xml-s.
  • diff_perforce.py: python comparator, uses xml generator and compares 2 xml using p4merge tool.
  • diff_perforce.bat: python comparator wrapper, invokes from the Perforce GUI application.

It works with the Adove Flash CS3.

For the details, see the README_EN.txt in the archive.

Andry
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Looks like the XFL file format may be of interest to you:

http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000269.html

spender
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This isn't possible as .fla files are intended to be used exclusively through Adobe's proprietary software. To keep track of revisions, I would suggest keeping your .fla files in some kind of revision control system like svn, or git.

Thomas
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I also need this but I wasn't able to find a way to diff .fla files.

Adobe is advertising that Flash CS5 will feature XML based .fla files. We'll just have to wait it seems.

Thyrius
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If you are using CS5, you can save your project in XFL format, which is XML based
More info about XFL here: http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=1986

Marc
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