ActionScript 3.0 :: Use Symbols In One FLA File In Another?
Nov 26, 2009
I am working on a learning project to create a web based sound player interface that is based on external class definitions and packages. I want reference buttons, movie clips and graphics in another FLA file. These items have been exported for ActionsScript but I am uncertain if that means that they are only available in the FLA file in which they are saved, or are they accessible to scripts connected to another FLA file?
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I'm working through a book called Foundation Game Design with Flash, and I'm finding the Flash IDE confusing. I've been programming for several years, so working with AS3 directly is far easier than trying to understand symbols and nested symbols and the difference between graphics and movie clips and scoping issues and all that -- when tied into the IDE.
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Is there a way to access all exported symbols in a *.swf file?
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This is for an internal tool made in AS3 that will work along a framework, which needs to perform some operations on every symbol of a *.swf file. So performance isn't required, and a hackish solution (accessing ByteArray of the swf or something like that) is valid.
I ended up using as3swf to parse the ByteCode of the *.swf file and read the class.
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