Sothink SWF Decompiler Readme File Copyright (C) 2001-2009 SourceTec Software Co., LTD.

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---------------------------------------------------------------DESCRIPTION Sothink SWF Decompiler is a leading flash decompiling tool to catch, decompile, view, and extract Shockwave Flash movies (.swf and .exe files), especially convert your SWF to FLA. Using Sothink SWF Decompiler, you can find out almost everything in a Flash movie. ---------------------------------------------------------------WHAT'S NEW Version 5.0 Build: 503 New Features: * Support Flash CS4(10.0). * Add the option "Use SWF file name as the subdirectory" in the dialog "Export FLA". * Add the option "Export as Flash CS4 (10.0) format in the dialog "SWF Decompiler". Version 4.5.1 Build: 90120 Fixed bugs: * Some bugs in decompiling ActionScript. Version 4.5 Build: 81208 New Features: * Optimize the appearance. * Enhance the function for playback control bar. * Add thumbnail for video and audio file; optimize the audio file when exporting FLA. * Support exporting AS files in HTML format. Fixed bugs: * Correct the path error when adding the files from root directory by clicking the button "Add File". * The program crashes when dragging the file to the panel "Multi-file Export". * The thumbnails are incorrect while previewing the resources.

Version 4.4 Build: 80916 New Features: * Add navigation bar in the preview window to view the resources. * Optimize the setting for "Multi-file Export". * Modify the update link to check the latest information. Fixed bugs: * Set the same background for thumbnails and original image. * The preview window docks the original position when returning to the thumbnails from the image.

Version 4.3 Build: 80806 New Features: * Multi-file (SWF or EXE file) can be parsed and converted into FLA files at the same time; and resources can be exported too. * Support Windows 2008. * SWF catcher supports getting the Flash movie from the browser Firefox 3.0. * Add the format "*.fla" for exporting all the components. * Add a checkbox included the options "Reset Default", "Reset All Formats to FLA" and "Reset All Formats to SWF" in the dialog "Export Resources". Version 4.2 Build: 80625 Fixed Bugs: * The program got crashed when launched on Windows 2003. Version 4.1 Build: 80421 New Features: * Make significant update to user interface, similar to Office Fluent user interface. * Optimize the display of ActionScript in Resources Panel. When decompiling AS3.0, support showing AS Class structure like folder-tree according to its path in package. Fixed Bugs: * Correct the error about decompiling ActionScript. Version 4.0 Build: 80225 New Features: * Support ActionScript 3. * Compatible with Flash CS3 (9.0). * Provide Thumbnail View.

Version 3.7 Build: 70607 Fixed Bugs: * An error of out of memory appeared when analyzing some SWF files containing large images. * Some bugs in decompiling ActionScript. Version 3.6 Build: 70208 Fixed Bugs: * The exported FLA file in Flash 7 format which has font linkages could not be opened in Flash MX 2004. * Some bugs in decompiling ActionScript. Version 3.5 Build: 61122 Fixed Bugs: * Crashed or didn't respond when decompiling or exporting some SWF files. * The Flash program crashes or shows nothing when opening some exported FLA. * Some bugs in decompiling ActionScript. * The property settings of color transform are incorrect for some elements of exported FLA. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler 3.4 Build: 60912 New Features: * Support expanding the sprite frame by frame, which can not be done in previous version. * Within the Action folder, detail the action information to frame, which is listed only by sprite in previous version. * Include font linage in the converted FLA, which is lost in previous version. Fixed Bugs: * Some bugs in decompiling ActionScript. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler 3.3 Build: 60720 Fixed Bugs: * Can not support the video generated by Flash 8 correctly. * Can not distinguish some SWF files' version automatically. * Add a link of "Sothink Flash Template" to trial version, which will not be shown in registered version. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler 3.2 Build: 60616 Fixed Bugs: * The function of "convert static text to shape" cannot work correctly (only existed in build 60515). * Sothink SWF Decompiler crashed by a few SWF files that

do not tally with SWF format specification. * The converted FLA can not be opened in Flash since the swf movie has too much images (1000+). * Some static text offset in the converted FLA. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler 3.1 Build: 60515 Fixed Bugs: * Modify the parsing code according to the official file format specification of SWF 8. * Support recovering 9-slice scaling and text anti-alias properties. * There is blank movie when viewing the frames of SWF file and the Decompiler may crash. * If the generated FLA is in Flash 6 format and it contains multi-byte text, the text string is incorrect. * The text position and size are wrong when converting some static text. * Some mistakes in decompiling ActionScript. * Can not parse some of the files that do not tally with the specification of SWF. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler 3.0 Build: 60330 New Features: * Support exporting FLA in Flash 8 format. * Add Sothink SWF Catcher for Firefox. Fixed Bugs: * The default quality of sound/image in the exported FLA file is different from the original one. * Some bugs of decompiling ActionScript code. * Optimize the memory usage of program. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005c Build: 51128 New Features: * In exported FLA, name the symbol using <type ID> such as shape 11, button 20, etc. instead of using <symbol number>. * For symbol with linkage, sign the name of linkage in the () appended to its name. Fixed Bugs: * Support working on VPC of MAC computer. The earlier version has got error message when running on VPC of MAC. * Some errors in decompiling ActionScript. * When exporting frame, the names of all exported files are "frame0.swf". Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005c Build: 51108 New Features: * Add playback control-bar on the interface. And you can view the movie or element in original size or size

matching the window. * Show setting dialog automatically when exporting fla file. * The exported text file can be saved as .txt format. * Support exporting ActionScript in .as format. * Elements list by tag ID in the category. Fixed Bugs: * Incorrect color of image after exporting transparent image e.g. *.png. * Some errors in decompiling ActionScript. * Some texts display wrongly in the exported fla file. * Problem of embedded font. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005b Build: 50628 New Features: * User can choose to generate Guideline or not when converting to FLA file. * Support converting Static Text to Shape. Fixed * * * * Bugs: Can not recognize some components generated by Flash 7. Some errors in decompiling Action Script. Some mistakes of analyzing motion tween. Some mistakes of analyzing morph shape.

Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005b Build: 50408 New Features: * Support converting swf that contains video to fla. Fixed Bugs: * Decompile ActionScript incorrectly of some swf movie using multi-ConstantPool * Decompiler takes long time to analyze and decompile the movie that includes too many linkages. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005a Build: 50330 Fixed Bugs: * The exported fla in Flash 7.0 format can not be opened on Mac computer if the original swf contains image. * Crash when analyzing a swf movie that contains midi sound. * Some Action Script expressions are incorrectly decompiled. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005a Build: 50318 New Features: * Completely support Flash MX 2004 (7.0) and ActionScript 2.0 now. * If the swf file contains ActionScript 2.0 classes, Decompiler supports exporting the Flash Project file (flp) including .fla and .as files.

* Support converting the swf that contains components to fla file and you can edit and configure them in Flash. * Support storing different types of symbols in individual Library folder when converting to fla. * Optimize the engine of Decompiler to improve the quality of decompiled code. * Enhance the exporting function of image, sound and video. * Enhance the motion tween parsing. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005 Build: 41221 Fixed Bugs: * Cannot open some exported FLA files in Flash on Mac. * Incorrect alignment of some text. * Incorrect analysis of certain motion tween. * Actions of certain buttons were lost when exporting FLA. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005 Build: 40915 Fixed Bugs: * When opening the exported fla in Flash, any edition to Library will cause confusing. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005 Build: 40827 Fixed Bugs: * Some text are converted incorrectly in exported .FLA file. * Use too much system memory when converting swf to fla if the swf contains large MP3. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2005 Build: 40730 * Support exporting flash movie in FLA format. * Support exporting the image with transparent pixels in png format. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2004 Build: 40614 * Fixed some minor bugs Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2004 Build: 40517 Fixed Bugs: * Crashed while parsing some SWF files Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2004 Build: 40430 New Features: * Support Flash MX 2004 (Flash 7.0) and ActionScript 2.0. * Support extracting/exporting Flash Video

(.flv) file. * Support extracting/exporting Morph Shape. * Support extracting/exporting other SWF tags (Import Assets, Export Assets, etc.). * More information about the extracted SWF tags (Bounding Box, Text string, etc.). * Add "Hex" tab in information dialog. * Support copying, deleting and renaming files in the Explorer Bar. * Added a "display line numbers" option for ActionScript. * Support coping/finding text in Action Script. * New Windows XP theme compatible interface. Fixed Bugs: * Fixed the "file not found" error while browsing the files in Internet Explorer cache under Windows XP. * Crashed while parsing some damaged SWF files. * Some Action Script codes were decompiled incorrectly. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 30212 * Fixed the bug in "Build 30116" and "Build 30106" which cause the exported BMP image in wrong format. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 30116 * Fixed the bug in "Build 30106" which cause the Decompiler lost some action coeds in some buttons. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 30106 * New IE Capture Engine is powerful enough to catch any swf movie in IE browser. * Enable to preview the movie before save it. * Fixed several minor bugs. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 20912 * Support to display Action Script P-Code and Row Data. * Fixed several bugs while decompiling ActionScript code. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 20816 * Fixed a bug that frame rate is always 12 * Fixed several bugs while decompiling ActionScript code. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 20616 * Fixed several bugs while decompiling ActionScript

code. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 20523 * Fixed several bugs while decompiling ActionScript code generated by Flash MX Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro Build: 20324 * Can analyze action code of Flash MX. * Compatible with Flash MX player ActiveX. * Support compressed SWF format of Flash MX. * Support other new features of Flash MX. * Solved the crash problem when the exported font movie is imported in Flash. * Fixed one wrong keyword. * Fixed some confused flash code. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler 2002 Pro Build: 20221 * Newly added Flash Capturer component enables users to capture the Flash movies in Internet Explorer. Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler 2002 Pro Build: 20204 * The first release ---------------------------------------------------------------FEATURES * Provides a user-friendly interface to quickly browse and play SWF from your hard-drive or network. * Supports Flash movies in format both *.swf and *.exe. * Extracts the resources of SWF and sorts them in categories. * Decompiles and generates neat and readable code of action scripts. * Supports to export any selected element or all elements. * Enables to scan the cache of IE and list all viewed flash files. * Supports to browse and preview any parsed resource before exporting. * Shows detail properties of elements used in Flash movies. * Can be invoked from Windows Explorer or MS Internet Explorer browser. ---------------------------------------------------------------SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 98/ME, Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------INSTALLATION

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Open the zip file with a unzip tool, such as WinZip; Double-click "Setup.exe"; Follow the install wizard.

---------------------------------------------------------------UNINSTALLATION 1 2 3 4 Click Start-->Settings and choose Control Panel; In Control Panel, choose Add/Remove Programs; In the Install/Uninstall tab, highlight "Sothink SWF Decompiler" and click the Add/Remove button; Follow the prompts.

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