Aral Balkan

A few tools I’m finding useful at the moment:

For working with SWF bytecode:

• Flasm - disassembler/assembler.
• swfdump - part of swftools; gives a really good assembly/hex listing of SWF contents with -Ddu flags.
• 0xED - a free, simple hex editor for OS X.

For PHP:

• SimpleTest - unit testing framework for PHP

For swfdump, there is a Linux version that compiles well on OS X. Just ./configure, make, and then sudo make install. Or, you can download the binaries I made from below (only tested on the latest Tiger; no warranties/guarantees/etc.)

Download Swftools OS X binaries (version 1.0.1beta; current stable release). MD5 hash: 75f904b9bc5133fc0e35fb521383a45d.

Comments

• Hi Aral, I hope you're well... I was racking my brain yesterday about how I could, for lack of a better word, "inject" a getURL(loadimage) into a swf (upon load) as I did not have the fla. This was intended to load a tracking pixel into a advertiser's swf. I went through the Flasm docs and didn't really see anything like this.. but do you know if that's possible? Do they have a "push" api? Thanks!! Michael

  by Michael Kaufman on 2007-03-17 05:07:27

• Hi Michael, Off the cuff, a few methods come to mind: You could use Swfmill to create a new SWF that loads in the first SWF and also a class compiled by MTASC that has your actions (see http://osflash.org/mtasc and http://osflash.org/swfmill). You can also disassemble the SWF and recreate the FLA using Burak's ASV (http://buraks.com/).

  by Aral on 2007-03-17 08:15:22