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> .fla / XFL import — This is the one I’m most proud of. You can open your old Flash files. As far as I know, this is the only open-source tool that functions a
by HanClinto 7mo ago
> .fla / XFL import — This is the one I’m most proud of. You can open your old Flash files. As far as I know, this is the only open-source tool that functions as a full authoring environment and can actually import .fla files. Not just play them back — edit them.
The backwards compatibility here is pretty clutch. I agree -- if he can build something that is compatible with old files AND pushes things forward for new, then this could do some really awesome stuff.
- adrian17 7mo agoAFAIK the .fla format was never fully documented or reverse engineered by anyone (FFDEC has an exporter, but not importer), so this alone would be a bold claim.
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- samsartor 7mo agohttps://ruffle.rs/ https://ruffle.rs/ is pretty solid
- gs17 7mo agoI'm very curious if the "ActionScript-to-C# transpiler" will actually work as well as he's hoping.
- tombert 7mo agoI'm cautiously optimistic that it could work. It's been quite awhile since I've written ActionScript [1], but I remember when I wrote it I didn't write it significantly differently than C#. You still have similar Java-style OOP semantics with types that I think wouldn't be too hard to map into C#, especially if you're willing to be dirty and use reflection. [1] Gah, has it really been almost fourteen years? Time is stupid.
- Tade0 7mo agoIt's a dialect (superset) of ECMAScript based on the never-released 4th edition draft, which was in development at the time C# was first released, so these similarities are no accident.