Sothink SWF Decompiler Readme File
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 SourceTec Software Co., LTD.
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Table of Contents
      
    * Description
    * What's New 
    * Features 
    * Requirements 
    * Installation 
    * Uninstallation 
    * License 
    * Contact 

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DESCRIPTION

    Sothink SWF Decompiler is a tool to browse, view and parse 
    Shockwave Flash movies (.swf files). It can extract sounds, 
    images, movie clips from a Flash movies. What's more, Sothink 
    SWF Decompiler can decompile the action scripts in a Flash 
    movie and turn them into neat and readable code. 

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WHAT'S NEW
    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 Action Script 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; 
        * Suppor copying, deleting and renaming files in the Explorer Bar; 
        * Added a "display line numbers" option for Action Script; 
        * 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 code 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 Action Script code.


    Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro 
    Build: 20816
        * Fixed a bug that frame rate is always 12
        * Fixed several bugs while decompiling Action Script code.


    Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro 
    Build: 20616
        * Fixed several bugs while decompiling Action Script code.


    Version: Sothink SWF Decompiler MX 2002 Pro 
    Build: 20523
        * Fixed several bugs while decompiling Action Script 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

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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. 

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 

    Win 98/ME, Win NT 4.0/2000/XP

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INSTALLATION 

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

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UNINSTALLATION 

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

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UPDATE 

    Please visit http://www.sothink.com/ for updates and other 
    products.

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LICENSE 

    Check out the license.txt for license information. 

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CONTACT US 
          
    Web Site: http://www.sothink.com 
    Tel: +86(27)87561172 
    Fax: +86(27)87780023
    Email: support@sothink.com 
    Postal: Suite 311, 7-4 IBI building, Guandong Science  
         Park, Guanshan 2nd Road, Wuhan, China 430074 

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