Re: [Swftools-common] Tools for direct SWF manipulation.

[Matthias Kramm]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:31PM -0500, David E. West wrote:
> Finally, my questions are:
> 
> (1) Is there a tool in swftools that will allow this sort of direct object-
>     level swf manipulation?

There's swfcombine, which can do most of what you want.
For example, the "swfinsert -t <id>" you described is equivalent
to the following swfcombine command:

    swfcombine file.swf '#<id>'=replacement.swf -o output.swf

If that object you want to replace happens to have a name, you
can also simply do

    swfcombine file.swf <object>=replacement.swf -o output.swf

Furthermore, with

    swfextract -i <id> file.swf -o output.swf
    
you can extract objects from swf files
(in order to e.g. create those "replacement.swf" files).

Notice, however, that swfcombine works on the display level, not the
meta-data level- i.e. you can replace visible characters only, not individual
properties (like, for instance, a specific texture of a shape).

Greetings

Matthias