Flash support?

[rohillion]

Hi! First of all I want to say nice job niklasvh! I just want to know if it support flash already, because I have made some tries and it is not capturing flash stuff.

[niklasvh]

Currently it isn't capturing any flash items, as JavaScript can't read Flash items directly. I am looking into a possibility of getting Flash support added, but nothing guaranteed.

[atk]

How about using Gordon? http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/

A Proxy will be necessary to load external flashes, though.

[niklasvh]

Considering it only supports up to version 2, it in my opinion, would not be much of use. However, keep in mind that using Flash isn't out of the question, since to be able to see the Flash items, the user already presumably has Flash installed, so perhaps having Flash output the contents to JavaScript could be one route.

[niklasvh]

I'm not all that familiar with the security settings in flash when it comes to crossdomain Flash files and exporting data from them, but considering it is able to actually load the movie and extract the information fine in the debugger, I am still keeping my hopes alive that this http://stackoverflow.com/q/7026295/774612 approach could work.

[niklasvh]

Considering a large portion of the swf specifications are available from Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/swf/pdf/swf_file_format_spec_v10.pdf), I think it is just a matter of time before someone creates a swf to canvas/svg application using JavaScript.

However, as the license issues etc. related to this are in quite a gray area, it isn't something I'd currently explore.

Closing this for now, and presumably not having support for flash at least in the first release.

[kenef]

Any progress on this? Thanks in advance.

[val1984]

A lot has changed in 7 years since this ticket was closed and as Flash is being phased out, I don't think anyone is gonna spend time on supporting it.

[kenef]

val1984 you’re 100% correct. Though flash is still being used for niche applications, such as using articulate storyline to create elearning modules (my current project). So I was hoping someone had picked up the flash side of this and carried the ball a little further over the last 7 years. Oh well.