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December 20, 2013
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Publishing SWF's with AS3

  • December 20, 2013
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Hi All,

I was just wondering if its possible to build a flash application that can publish its own swf files based on user input?  Might be a silly question but i cant seem to find an answer to it anywhere?!

Many Thanks

Matt

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Correct answer kglad

no, a swf cannot create another swf.

on the other hand, a swf can save data that's used by anoth swf and that other swf then appears to be customized (per your user's input if you wish).

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kglad
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kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
December 20, 2013

no, a swf cannot create another swf.

on the other hand, a swf can save data that's used by anoth swf and that other swf then appears to be customized (per your user's input if you wish).

SFMltdAuthor
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January 7, 2014

Hi Kglad, apologies for the late reply. Thankyou, thats useful to know. Really what i wanted to do was to create a flash app that would allow non flash users to be able to create new flash assets based on a template but adding their own text etc. I guess i could build an interface which would output to .as files? Those could then be compiled with flash builder or similar? Bit of a long shot i think!

Amy Blankenship
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January 7, 2014

Depending on your other skills, you could write something that would either write JS code or incorporate a back-end technology (like ASP or PHP) to add custom flash vars. I think there actually are server-side technologies that will generate a swf, but I'm not sure of the state of the technology.