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by jokethrowaway 1274 days ago
It sounds like adding those features to ruffle would have been three order of magnitudes easier than writing a flash player from scratch

I understand contributing to OSS is a pain (I often end up with half implemented features in my own branch and never manage to merge them upstream) but he could have saved himself some trouble.
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codetrotter 1274 days ago
Ruffle plays compiled Flash swf files

The tool that the author made reads Flash fla files and exports data from that.

Swf files contain binary data. The ActionScript code has been compiled into bytecode. The vector data is probably also represented in binary format.

Fla files, as pointed out in the OP blog post, contain XML data.

It sounds like OP is doing something quite different from what Ruffle does.

Ruffle tries to be a player for swf files.

OP wanted to export data from Fla XML to other formats, so that he could build executable games.

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roywiggins 1274 days ago
It seems to me like a very different skillset required to reimplement a runtime like the SWF player vs hacking together an alternative FLA compiler that's just good enough to work on your own games.

Ruffle still doesn't support Actionscript 3.0, I suspect the task is not that straightforward.

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