Can only get 35 frames to show?

Hi,

I've inherited a website to look after - http://www.tasmanrevival.com/ and I've downloaded the .swf files which I've decompiled using Sothink SWF Decompiler, and I will at some time need to edit those files. I have Flash CS4, and I'm not sure which version of Flash was used to build the site. However while the files, converted to .fla seem to run fine in Flash player, I can only get to see up to frame 35 in Flash CS4. Is there something I'm missing, or do I need the original files, and if they are from an earlier version, will they work anyway?

I'm pretty unfamiliar with Flash as I've only owned it for 1 day, so any assistance would be appreciated,

Thanks

Grant

Can only get 35 frames to show?

You really should get the original files. The reason that the movie that you decompiled seems to have only 35 frames is that it may only have 35 frames. This movie is probably loading in additional content as other movies. If you go into the one movie that you have and root through the actionscript, you'll probably find references to other movies. You'll have to decompile each of those also. These may lead to additional movies, and on and on. It could take you a very long time to reconstruct the files that you need using a decompiler. Try and get the original files to work with.

Can only get 35 frames to show?

Thanks for that Rod - I had a feeling that might be the case, so hopefully the original author might be able to dig them up for me. Knowing that alone is a big help, and I now know it will probably be easier in the long run to reconstruct the whole thing anyway.

Regards

Grant

I now have the original Flash .fla files, but I still can't get any more than 35 frames to show. Any more clues would be a help.

Thanks

Grant

Your movie(s) are probably written using Actionscript 2. If you select the stage window and then go to the Edit menu and select Find and Replace, then enter loadMovie in the Text: space, then check the Actionscript box below that. Then click the Find All button in the upper right. You should get a list of the locations where loadMovie is used in this movie. This process will find all of the movie loading functions and show you the movies, and their paths, that are loaded into this base movie. This is where all of the additional content is located.

Thanks for that Rob, and I can see all the files that would be necessary for the rest of the presentation/movie, but I can still only see the first 35 frames. If you get a chance to have a look at the site - http://www.tasmanrevival.com/ - you'll see as soon as it loads, a stopwatch in front of a garage door - this fades in and out quickly, then a car and other stuff appears. The stopwatch bit is all I get to.

Regards

Grant

I've now found the missing frames - 80 - by changing the preview mode to outlines and double clicking almost anywhere in an outline the extra frames have shown up. (BTW I've only had Flash for two days) In preview modes other than outlines, double clicking only produced black screens. I'm not sure if all that's a result of a non-CS4 file though. There was only one scene listed and nothing more revealed in Movie Explorer.

When I show the extra frames the Window displays 'mc site' next to Scene 1, if that tells you anything.

Regards
Grant

What you have found are most likely movieClips that contain content. If these are in that same first movie, then you should be able to go to the Library and open each of the movieClips and review their content. Be aware that some of these movieClips may contain other movieClips that, in turn, contain more content, and possibly, even more movieClips. Regardless of the embedding of clips in clips, each of them will be available in the Library window.

Thanks Rob,

That's pretty much what I've found,

Regards

Grant

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