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Yes the SWF format has not been fully documented [1] by Adobe to make it easy to develop an implementation. But so was the case with Office documents, but seve
by arocks 14y ago
Yes the SWF format has not been fully documented [1] by Adobe to make it easy to develop an implementation.
But so was the case with Office documents, but several open source projects can now successfully read and write them.
EDIT: It seems that the Flash Player EULA is a major roadblock. Once installed, you cannot perform any reverse engineering on it [2].
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash#Adobe_Flash_Player_End-User_License_Agreement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash#Adobe_Flash_Player_End-Us...
- calinet6 14y agoEven if it were to be documented, I imagine it would read something like: "This API works exactly like this. Except when the user disables local storage. Oh wait, also not when the Flash version is 11.0.635.24.b. Well, also it's different if you don't have a security-inst-config.xml installed in the home directory of the user under the path .adobe/flash/securityPolicy. OH! Also it works completely differently if you're using HTTPS. And it won't work at all if you're trying to access any server without a security policy defined on the DNS TXT record third from the top. Also there are some slight issues between 3 and 5 PM GMT on Tuesdays, but a workaround can be found on the Macromedia support forums."