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Flash Decompiler User Manual

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Interface

Flash Decompiler Interface

Flash Decompiler brings easiness and simplicity to complex manipulations with Flash objects and tags. All interface controls are common to all users. In addition it's totally customizable, so you can get exactly what is really convenient to you and place all controls just as you need them to be positioned.

There are 6 logical parts of the interface:
  • Main menu
  • Main toolbar
  • File explorer
  • SWF Player window
  • Tag information
  • Resources bar
Flash Decompiler main menu


Main menu

File -> Save - save SWF file with the same filename after editing it with SWF Replacer
File -> Save As - save SWF file with the new filename after editing it with SWF Replacer
File -> Open - open a new SWF file for decompilation, decompiling starts automatically
File -> Quick Open - command line opening
File -> Reopen - open any of the 20 recently decompiled SWF files
File -> Export - export selected contents of a SWF file (can also act as a Quick Export when the latter is selected)
File -> Movie information - show Movie information dialog
File -> Exit - quit Flash Decompiler

View -> ... - show/hide interface objects and refresh Explorer contents

Options -> Explorer view style - choose the way to show icons in File Explorer
Options -> Favorites - organize your Favorites
Options -> Customize main menu - choose buttons, their order and view on the main toolbar
Options -> Change background color - select background color for the movie, currently being decompiled
Options -> Localizations - choose the interface language, edit and export current language
Options -> Settings - toggle Flash Decompiler settings dialog

Layouts -> ... - choose one of predefined interface layouts

Help -> Change license type - re-register your copy of Flash Decompiler to another registration name. Useful when you move from Personal License to, for instance, Business or Site License.
Help -> User manual - go to this manual
Help -> About - toggle About dialog

Flash Decompiler main toolbar

Flash Decompiler main toolbar

Flash Decompiler main toolbar


Main toolbar

Main toolbar provides main functionality of Flash Decompiler, however, you will not use it most of the time. It can be completely customized (Choose Options -> Customize main toolbar or right click the toolbar and choose the same option). By default main toolbar contains options to Save, Open, Reopená User Manual and Export buttons. But you can choose which controls you wish to see there yourself.

Flash Decompiler explorer

File explorer

Navigate and find your SWF files easily! File explorer lets you choose SWF files to decompile. You can even get into ZIP files like in simple folders. Just select any directory in the folders tree. If that folder contains any files that can be decompiled, they will be shown in the files area of the File Explorer. Just click/select any of them to decompile it.

Flash Decompiler SWF Player window

SWF Player window

This is the interface element which allows you to preview selected SWF file, play or pause it or advance frame-by-frame. This is where you will see all decompiled objects, when you select them in the Resources Bar.

Flash Decompiler tag information

Tag information

Select any decompiled object/tag in Resource Bar and find details about the decompiled item here. You can see the list of images used in this tag, sprites and frames this tag is used in, and memory dump this tag reserves.

Flash Decompiler resource bar

Resources bar

This control hosts the list of all decompiled SWF elements and tags: Shapes, Images, Morphs, Sounds, Video, Fonts, Texts, Buttons, Frames, Sprites. You can expand the list and view each object/tag separately or select the whole category of objects/tags and launch one-by-one automatic view mode. To export decompiled objects/tags select them in this list and press "Export" either on this bar or on the main toolbar (or press F6).