Comparing/exporting FLA files

Question

Is there a way of exporting an FLA file to a human-readable format, so that different revisions of a file can be compared?

I found a script for exporting to XML here (post 6): http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=155434 -- but it doesn't work as advertised - e.g. it doesn't export any details of items in the library.

Answer 1

As i know it was designed to dump only the Library from the Fla file. I have an upgraded version (diff_fla):

• https://github.com/andry81/contools.old/tree/HEAD/Scripts/Tools/ToolAdaptors/fla/diff_fla

You will find 3 script files:

• FlaToXML.jsfl: xml generator, uses Adobe Flash GUI to produce xml-s.
• diff_perforce.py: python comparator, uses xml generator and compares 2 xml using p4merge tool.
• diff_perforce.bat: python comparator wrapper, invokes from the Perforce GUI application.

It works with the Adove Flash CS3.

For the details, see the README_EN.txt in the archive.

Answer 2

Looks like the XFL file format may be of interest to you:

http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000269.html